A teenager transforms from a schoolgirl to a spy in this true story of heroism in wartime.
Suzanne David's everyday life is suddenly ... read full description
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Oct 22, 2011
Knitme23
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Julie recommended this book, and my nifty public library got it for me on interlibrary loan. It's an interesting story and would make a great companion to Number the Stars, as it tells the story of a French Catholic teenager and her family who live in Cherbourg, France, during WWII. Her father ends up working for the Nazis, running the railroad, despite the fact that the family all opposes the Nazis. The main character, Suzanne, is a gifted singer, and ends up being recruited to carry messages f
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Jan 14, 2012
Elaine
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I would love to give this 5 stars and recommend it for kids ages 12 and up, but I can't. Unfortunately, in the beginning, there is a scene where a pregnant woman is killed during a bombing raid. The description is too gruesome and gory for any child to read. (If you want to know what happened, another review on goodreads tells the details.) Other than that one very gory paragraph, it was an excellent book. I so wish the author would have just said that the woman and her baby died and left it at
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Jul 14, 2009
Darcy
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For Freedom tells the story of French spy who passes on messages regarding the D-day invasion. Suzanne David is a opera singer who becomes a spy when she comes into the see the doctor. Nazis take her families home and leaves it in wreckage. At the beginning of the book someone dies and her friend becomes traumatized for the rest the life. She never comes out of her induced state but can do anything anybody can do. For Freedom is a fiction book based on a true story. After the D-day invasion and
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Nov 25, 2008
Lydia
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I absolutely love this book. It's about a girl named Suzanne David. She's thirteen years old when one day she's walking in the town square with her best friend Yvette--alone. Suddenly, a pregnant woman with her son come up. It's their friend! They talk. Suddenly, BOOM!! The square blows up. They look for Madame Montagne--her baby has been blown out, it lies in a pool of blood-a girl. The mother's head has been blown off, and they can't find the son until later. Suzanne later becomes a spy. Suzan
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May 08, 2011
Jamie
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BrBradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy. 181 p. Dell Laurel-Leaf. 2003. ISBN 978-0-440-41831-3.
Wow! For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy was incredibly suspenseful. The book is based on a true story.
Imagine you are a 13-year-old living in a French town and your walking downtown with your best friend. It’s May 29, 1940. A bomb falls right next to you and you see someone get killed. Your best friend is so traumatized from the event, sh More...
Wow! For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy was incredibly suspenseful. The book is based on a true story.
Imagine you are a 13-year-old living in a French town and your walking downtown with your best friend. It’s May 29, 1940. A bomb falls right next to you and you see someone get killed. Your best friend is so traumatized from the event, sh More...
Aug 21, 2007
Jennie
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Based on the true story of Suzanne David, a teenager in Cherbourg, France, this is a first person narrative of a teenager turned Resistance spy. Suzanne is an aspiring opera singer who isn't that caught up in current events until Cherbourg beach is bombed while she's sitting on it. She watches one of her neighbors blow up and her best friend never recovers from the experience. Her strength in such an ordeal and the fact that her singing takes her throughout northern France leads the local resist
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Sep 18, 2011
Valerie
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Suzanne David loves to sing - she has an amazing voice for her age of 13 years. She wants to sing opera. Yet WWII breaks into her dreams. She lives in Cherbourg France - her town is occupied by Nazis. Courage - this story shows how courage - when prayed for - can enter anyones heart! I loved how she kept visiting Yevette - year after year - how she always prayed for courage - and how her story kept my heart beating fast - an amazing true story!
Dec 27, 2010
Karen
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My favorite thing about this historical fiction book is that it is a true story! It is written as a fictional story, but the details and the events came from a real person and her real experiences. I have read a few different WWII books now, but this is the first one from France. It's cool to see how different cities, countries and people reacted. I especially love to read about the strength of individuals in a time of national horror.
Jan 20, 2011
Jenny
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Suzanne David's life of school and singing changes when Nazis bomb her French town. A neighbor is killed in front of her and her best friend is destroyed mentally. Suzanne longs for a way to fight the Nazis who have forced her out of her home and taken over the town. Her prayers are answered when Dr. Leclerk asks her to spy for the Resistance. She risks everything, family, friends, life itself, to help the Allies plan D-Day.
Mar 29, 2009
Jen
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-Suzanne (13) is living in France, during WWII. Her and her family are forced out of their homes by the Nazis and have to find a refuge in a small apartment. They go on with their lives; Suzanne is a very good singer and performs for the opera even at her young age.
-She becomes a spy 100 pages through the book. She is called on by the neighborhood doctor to deliver messages for the resistance.
-Will she get caught?
-She becomes a spy 100 pages through the book. She is called on by the neighborhood doctor to deliver messages for the resistance.
-Will she get caught?
Jan 10, 2009
Pat
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This is a Utah Young Adults' Book Award Nominee and therefore one of the reasons I was drawn to read it. It is a simple story of WWII France--a young girl who delivers messages for the Free Forces of Charles De Gaulle. It is a fictionalized true story and it works. If read with expectations of great fiction, you will be disappointed, but if read with the desire to learn another aspect of this time, it will be satisfying.
Jan 19, 2012
Rachel
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Young Suzanne David is living in Cherbourg, France when the Nazis invade France in 1940. Suzanne gives little concern about the Nazis until her pregnant neighbor is killed in a bombing. Somewhat seeking revenge and wanting to do something for her country, Suzanne joins the French Resistance and begins a journey that could cost her her life. The book was average. It was based on a true story so it's somewhat hard to do a book that will catch your attention. I gave the book three out of five stars
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Nov 23, 2011
I love this book, it's so nice and feels so realistic, i wished that her friend, Yvette, had recovered but she stayed the same, in shock of everything she saw, but you know that proves how hard life was. I truly reccomend this book to anyone, it isn't long and it jst holds on to you until you finish like 10 chapters. AMAZINGLY LOVELY COURAGEOUS BOOK !! ^^
Oct 18, 2010
Jill
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We are so lucky to live when we do, and not have to deal with the threats to freedom and body that others have (although I guess we have our own threats these days to morality). A story of courage and daring, love of family and willingness to sacrifice. I liked it.
Feb 09, 2010
Nadia
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All though this book is extremely sad at the beginning, it is also my favorite book I've read about World War 2. A story about a thirteen year old girl who loves to sing is great to anyone who like to sing.
Jun 15, 2010
Gorfo
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This is the story of a french spy who is also an aspiring oprah singer. It was a really short book and wasn't very interesting. It was rather depressing actually.
Sep 21, 2011
Coralie
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This is the true story of a 13 year old girl who becomes a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. This book is very suspenseful and easy to read. I read it in one sitting.
Apr 05, 2009
Karah
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This book will have you on the edge of you seat. I could not put the book down. It's a young adult so you can easily finish it in one day.
Nov 10, 2008
Yana
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This is the story of a 13 year-old girl named Suzanne,who experiences World War II as her town of Cherbourg,France is bombed and occupied by Nazis. Her family is forced out of their home to live in an apartment with barely enough food to servive. Through it all she refuses to give in to fear.She meets a man, a French Resistance who asks Suzanne to be a spy. Suzanne becomes number 22, passing out codes with messages hidden in them.
Based on a true story, Suzanne tries very hard to help the More...
Based on a true story, Suzanne tries very hard to help the More...
Jan 21, 2012
Angelina
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This book is so good and so inspiring in the end. I love it!!! It's one of my favorites. Very well written novel! <3
Jun 22, 2009
Judie
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Based on a true story, this book is about one girl's contribution to the Resistance movement in France.
Jul 03, 2010
Nicole
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Made it to the second chapter. Didn't like the style of writing. Couldn't finish.
Jan 11, 2009
Greta
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I really like this book. And when I got to the epilogue, I started wondering that it must have been based on a true story. So, then I read the dedication page where I discovered that in fact, it was based on the real life story of a Suzanne David who related her experiences to the author. Really great book.
Feb 03, 2010
Brittany
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I had been wanting to read this for a while, but never got around to it. However, after being forced into a book assignment for religion class in the library, I picked this up and read it instead. When I got home from school I couldn't put it down. It was interesting reading about WWII from a different perspective: France's. I have read many novels set during this time, in nearly every country excepting France during the occupation. The story of Suzanna is well paced and thought provoking, makin
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