Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk,

The war below : a novel / by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. - First American edition. - 240 pages ; 22 cm.

Originally published in 2014 by Scholastic Canada under title: Underground soldier. Companion to: Making bombs for Hitler.

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

ISBN: 9781338233025 9781338277630

LCCN: 2017035301

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Ukraine--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction.
Child labor--Fiction.
Ukrainians--Germany--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.