"Tourteau" is the French word for "crab." Classmates had nicknamed him "Tourteau" because his legs were damaged when he had contracted polio as a child. They feared that their neighbors, the Lafleurs, were Nazi conspirators. He took Sara to his family’s barn where his parents (Jean-Paul and Vivienne) helped her hide. They walked through the sewer area, and it was freezing.
Tourteau showed her a way to safely sneak out of the school building. Madame Pettijean insisted on going onto a Nazi truck with her students.Ī classmate named Tourteau, whom the children often bullied, found Sara in the bell tower. The Nazis forced the children onto trucks. The Nazis found the kids in the woods and fatally shot the maquisard. She feared that going into the woods would damage her shoes. While the other kids ran with the maquisard to hide in the forest, Sara snuck away into the bell tower. The Jewish children needed to hide in the woods with a maquisard because the Nazis were coming to round up the Jewish children. The pastor who was the head of the school interrupted Sara’s class as Madame Pettijean was teaching. She cared more about looking fashionable and being popular. However, when he was not looking, she put on her fashionable red shoes instead. Sara’s dad asked her to wear her boots to school. For example, a schoolmate named Vincent ridiculed Sara because she was Jewish. They would recite a rhyme together.ĭuring World War 2, the Nazis took control of France.
Her dad would toss her and pretend she was a bird. She spent the weekends with her parents in the bluebell fields beside the Mernuit Forest.
Her name is Sara, and she grew up in a well-off Jewish family in 1930s France. Chapter 1 takes place in Grandmere's childhood. Grandmere then thinks back to her childhood to tell Julian about her experiences. He said he wanted to interview her for school. In the prologue, Grandmere spoke with her grandson, Julian, via a videocall. The prologue takes place in the present day. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Palacio, R.
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