Hero on a Bicycle
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Candlewick Press 2013
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04/23/2013
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English
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9780763663599
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Shirley Hughes. (2013). Hero on a Bicycle. Candlewick Press.

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Shirley Hughes. 2013. Hero On a Bicycle. Candlewick Press.

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Shirley Hughes, Hero On a Bicycle. Candlewick Press, 2013.

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Shirley Hughes. Hero On a Bicycle. Candlewick Press, 2013.

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        Shirley Hughes (1927–2022) was born and brought up in West Kirby, near Liverpool, England, and studied at Liverpool Art School and the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford. She began to write and design her own picture books when she had a young family and eventually authored more than fifty children's books. She was the illustrator of some two hundred more.
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Italy, 1944: Florence is occupied by Nazi forces. The Italian resistance movement has not given up hope, though — and neither have thirteen-year- old Paolo and his sister, Costanza. As their mother is pressured into harboring escaping POWs, Paolo and Costanza each find a part to play in opposing the German forces. Both are desperate to fight the occupation, but what can two siblings — with only a bicycle to help them — do against a whole army? Middle-grade fans of history and adventure will be riveted by the action and the vividly evoked tension of World War II.

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