The greatest skating race : a World War II Story from the Netherlands

Borden, Louise.

Book 2004

During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.

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