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<\/p>\n\nAR STATS<\/a><\/h3>\n\nREADING QUIZZES<\/a><\/h3>\n\nRead time- 7-8 hrs
\n(RwC<\/span><\/b>)- Recommended with Caution
\n(C<\/b><\/span>)- Content –Peer Bullying<\/span>, Fighting<\/span>, Spying<\/span>, Theft<\/span>, Moderate Detail of Violence<\/span>, <\/b>PopCulture Language<\/p>\nThis is Fiction<\/b>– Similar to the twists and turns of The Hardy Boys or The Box Car Children.<\/p>\n
\n===================================================<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDid They Really Read the Book?<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nGood Vocab Words (Oxford)<\/u><\/h3>\n
\nzealot\u00a0<\/b>–noun —a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals<\/i><\/p>\n\n\nproboscis\u00a0<\/b>–noun —the nose of a mammal or an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible.<\/i> (used to described the tubular anti-air gun)<\/div>\n\nRecurring Themes<\/u><\/h3>\n\n- Nationalism<\/li>\n
- Personal sacrifice for greater good<\/li>\n
- \u00a0deception\/misrepresentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nCan your reader talk about these events? (3 mini-sagas…)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n=====================Saga 1====================<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n- Projekt 1065<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0is the code name for a new Nazi Fighter Jet project<\/li>\n
- Michael’s <\/b>Father is the Irish\u00a0Ambassador to Germany\u00a0and stationed in Berlin at the height of WW2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- Michael <\/b>and his family are also undercover informants\/spies for the Allied Forces\u00a0<\/li>\n
\n- Sent to Germay to uncover a Nazi assassination plan on an allied scientist working on the Manhattan Project\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Michael <\/b>is part of Hitler’s Youth\u00a0<\/li>\n
- On mission,\u00a0Michael\u00a0<\/b>is the first to find a recently downed RAF pilot (Simon<\/b>) and makes it his goal to return Simon <\/b>home<\/li>\n
\n- Simon\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0suffered a sprained ankle and wounded arm in the crash<\/li>\n
- Simon <\/b>was on a recon mission looking for evidence of\u00a0\u00a0Projekt 1065<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
\n=====================Saga 2====================<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Michael <\/b>learns that the dad of\u00a0another in Hitler’s Youth, (Fritz),<\/b>\u00a0works on the\u00a0Projekt 1065<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and has blueprints<\/li>\n
- Simon <\/b>helps Michael <\/b>hone his photographic memory in order to memorize\u00a0Projekt 1065<\/a>\u00a0blueprints<\/span><\/li>\n
- Series of events happen hours before\u00a0Michael <\/b>was supposed to escort\u00a0Simon<\/b>\u00a0to his secret drop-off location to return home\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- \u00a0Allied Air Raids force Michael’s Hitler Youth Squad to man the guns<\/li>\n
\n- Michael<\/b> and his team shoot down a Bomber<\/li>\n
- Michael<\/b> sabotages the aim settings to prevent another Allied casualty and is confronted by a witness who saw him\u00a0<\/li>\n
- **Graphic<\/b><\/span>** The witness intends to kill Michael for his treason, but is suddenly ripped apart from falling\u00a0shrapnel\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- The Edelweiss\u00a0Army (a resistance youth-group) ambush Michael and his team while they’re in shock from losing their comrade.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\n==================Saga 3====================<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n- Michael <\/b>pieces together previous conversations, while talking to his parents, to reveal the following:<\/li>\n
\n- The Allied Scientist is attending a science summit in Switzerland to recruit international help<\/li>\n
- The Hitler Youth are going to attend the summit posing as science enthusiasts in order to kill the scientist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Michael <\/b>needs to earn a spot on the assassination trip and does so, by turning in Simon <\/b>and his parents to the Nazi authorities.<\/li>\n
\n- Simon <\/b>chooses to sacrifice himself to save the scientist<\/li>\n
- Michael’s<\/b> family fled the night before ahead of Michael’s confessions to the SS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Michael <\/b>finds the scientist at the conference and goes through a series of events to save him<\/li>\n
\n- Alerts Swiss authorities of bomb on premises<\/li>\n
- Fights his comrades after they confront him<\/li>\n
- Finds the scientist again and tries to escape via gondola car down the mountain<\/li>\n
- Learns that Fritz <\/b>has the Bomb on top of their gondola car<\/li>\n
- Fritz <\/b>drops the bomb case trying to save Michael from falling off the car<\/li>\n
- Explosion triggers and avalanche and Fritz <\/b>dies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Michael\u00a0<\/b>goes to the Irish Embassy with the scientist and is reunited with his parents<\/li>\n
\n- Debriefed and works with agents to redraw Project 1065 blueprints<\/li>\n
- Finally, given new assignment in Washington, DC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nFinal Notes<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n\nParental Word of Caution-\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n![](\"https:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0393355942&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=dadreaditfirs-20&language=en_US\"\/)
<\/a><\/p>\n\n[This is a kid’s version of\u00a0Fight Club<\/a>\u00a0by Chuck Palahniuk….]<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
\nProjekt 1065<\/a>\u00a0glorifies physical altercations and fighting<\/b>\u00a0for dominance and hierarchy.\u00a0So much so, that it warrants caution with impressionable minds-\u00a0<\/i> You could find your kids fighting, boxing, or punching things as the fight scenes in the book were descriptive, high-adrenaline, and successful in garnering praise and recognition to the victor.<\/div>\n\nThe main character also is also encouraged to spy, sneak, snoop, and steal<\/b>.\u00a0 In context, war-time espionage gave (and gives) us a leg up against an adversary and affords us inside knowledge on plans, operations, etc.\u00a0 Remove that behavior from its context of a WW2 setting though, and it’s the kind of heroic influence that can leads to trouble if left on unguided.<\/i><\/p>\n\nRead the Authors Afterword<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\nIt helps to place the book on the entertainment-academic scale. The most historically accurate attribute of the book is the setting itself, the acknowledgement of Hitler’s Youth, and the understanding that\u00a0 Hitler’s Youth participated in various offensive-defensive campaigns. Ireland too, was truly presumed neutral, but covertly gathered intelligence for Allies- and that’s where Michael fits in…<\/p>\n
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\n(RwC<\/span><\/b>)- Recommended with Caution
\n(C<\/b><\/span>)- Content –Peer Bullying<\/span>, Fighting<\/span>, Spying<\/span>, Theft<\/span>, Moderate Detail of Violence<\/span>, <\/b>PopCulture Language<\/p>\n
This is Fiction<\/b>– Similar to the twists and turns of The Hardy Boys or The Box Car Children.<\/p>\n
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\nRecurring Themes<\/u><\/h3>\n
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\nParental Word of Caution-\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nRead the Authors Afterword<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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