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Sep 9, 2020 · English. 230 pages ; 18 cm. When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship. 010-up. Originally published in the U.S.A.: Dial Press, 1973.
Feb 7, 2022 · by Bette Greene and Bette Greene. When her small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, 12-year-old Patty Bergen learns what it means to open her heart.
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Open Road Media Teen & Tween, Sep 27, 2011 - Young Adult Fiction - 240 pages. In Bette Greene’s award–winning debut novel, a young Jewish girl in the postwar South finds herself drawn to a German...
Morning Is a Long Time Coming. Summer of My German Soldier is a 1973 book by Bette Greene. The story focuses on the friendship between a young Jewish-American girl and an escaped German POW in a small town in the Southern United States during World War II.
- Bette Greene
- 1973
German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the town these prisoners are only Nazis, but to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one of the young soldiers becomes an unlikely friend.
World War II has come to Patty Bergen's hometown of Jenkinsville, Arkansas, in the form of a German prisoner of war camp. Patty, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl, is curious about these Nazi soldiers, who must be monsters for the killing they have done. She is also lonely and awkward, and looking for a friend.
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