Samira and her mother, Kenza, leave the house after curfew to deliver a coded message to a rural guerrilla band of French Resistance fighters, the Maquis. By the time the two reach shore, Taylor has died from a gunshot wound in Dee’s arms… Operation Tortoise – Samari Sergeant Taylor yells for help because he can’t swim. When Dee gets out of the boat, he realizes they are in deep water.
As soon as the door to the Higgins boat opens, German machine guns blast the soldiers. If you are looking for a novel your students will love, look no further. In this book, Gratz tells six separate stories following six different D-Day operations through six different perspectives. Did you love Alan Gratz’s novel Refugee? He writes another winner with his newest book Allies.
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