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The lions' run
Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-2026
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Petit éclair. That's what the other boys at the orphanage call Lucas DuBois. Lucas is tired of his cowardly reputation, just as he's tired of the war and the Nazi occupation of his French village. He longs to show how brave he can be. He gets the chance when he saves a litter of kittens from cruel boys and brings them to an abandoned stable to care for them. There he comes upon a stranger who is none too happy to see him: Alice, the daughter of a British horse trainer, who is hiding her filly from German soldiers. Soon Lucas begins to realise they are not the only ones in the village with secrets. The housekeeper at the German maternity home and a priest at the orphanage pass coded messages; a young mother at the home makes dangerous plans to keep her baby from forced adoption; and a neighbour in town may be harbouring a Jewish family.
Main title:
The lions' run / Sara Pennypacker ; with art by Jon Klassen.
Author:
Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-, authorKlassen, Jon, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Hodder Children's Books, 2026.
Collation:
267 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9781444978780 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6Yellow Label
Language:
English
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BRN:
9049143