The author of the book The Boy Who Dared, is Susan Campbell Bartoletti. The Boy Who Dared is a book about a 17 year old boy named Helmuth, who gets arrested by the Nazis because he was caught listening to foreign radio channels from Britain called the BBC and selling pamphlets with the information from it on it. It tells the story of Helmuth of why and how he was arrested for that crime.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti was born on November 18, 1958 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She lost her father when she was only two months in a car crash, so she grew up with her mom and her stepdad. Her mother and stepfather later on moved them all to Scranton, Pennsylvania, when Susan was in Kindergarten. When Susan was older she attended Marywood, University and Binghamton, University.
Susan worked as a teacher at a college and her dream was to be a full time writer, but it was hard because she wasn't able/had enough time to both teach and write. Susan won many awards for her books Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow, The Boy Who Dared, Kids on Strike, and A coal miner's bride. She won the John Newbery Medal, Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, and the Jane Addams children book awards for books for older children. She is also mostly known for her nonfiction books.
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