The Bicycle Spy

I’ve loved everything I’ve read by this author, so when my sisters brought this home from the library (and I suddenly remembered it was on my TBR XD), I was excited to read it. ;) This book covers a time period in history I knew next to nothing about, so frankly--I was geeking out. :D 1939 France in......more

Won this well-written book from Goodreads.com. As a member of the older generation, I got a pleasure reading this kids book. It would have helped me to understand WW11 ( a bit better) if I had read it during my much younger days. The WW11 kids in Europe were at war too. This story about the bicycle......more

This was a great book at school and at home. It kept me on the edge of my seat guessing and guessing some more what will happen to this boy who loves the Tour de France and can never put his bike down. He meets up with a girl who had a secret identity and they have two things in common no. One they......more

I really enjoyed this brilliant little book. Marcel is a young teenager in France during WWII. He figures out that his parents, who own a bakery in the small town of Aucoin, are part of the French Resistance. He begins to help the cause as well and then has to be even more brave to help a dear frien......more

Yona Zeldis McDonough presents a very readable microcosm of World War II. Loaves of bread, a boy on a bicycle and a family that is doing their part to resist the evil of Nazism--McDonough effectively uses these simple elements to give the reader a real sense of the horrors of war resulting from the......more