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Phillip Hoose

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Phillip Hoose

Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book CLAUDETTE COLVIN won a National Book Award and was dubbed a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of HEY, LITTLE ANT co-authored by his daughter, Hannah, IT'S OUR WORLD, TOO!, THE RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD, WE WERE THERE, TOO!, a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, a Christopher Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine.

Phillip Hoose

Books by Phillip Hoose

by Phillip Hoose - History, Nonfiction, Young Adult 12+

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys arrested. Nevertheless, the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance.