For Freedom - The Story of a French Spy - Poche

For thirteen-year-old Suzanne, World War II begins on a lovely spring day in Cherbourg, France, when the sky is suddenly filled with roaring airplanes dropping bombs. Soon the Nazis occupy her tocan, and Suzanne's family must leave their house and move to a cramped, dingy apartment. Radios are forbidden ; the market is closed ; food is rationed ; sometimes people simply disappear. Through it all, Suzanne stubbornly refuses to give in to fear.
She sustains herself by singing, and as she travels around—for Tessons, for costume fittings—someone takes notice. He is an organizer for the French Résistance, and he wants Suzanne's help. She becomes number twenty-two, a spy passing coded messages ail over the city—despite the danger. Based on interviews with the real Suzanne, this is the moving story of one young woman's courageous fight for her country, for her honor, and for freedom.