Bibliograph

Great escapes, real tales of harrowing getaways, Judy Dodge Cummings

Type

Label

Great escapes, real tales of harrowing getaways, Judy Dodge Cummings

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

840L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

009-012

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Great escapes

Oclc number

978287433

Responsibility statement

Judy Dodge Cummings

Series statement

Mystery & mayhem

Sub title

real tales of harrowing getaways

Summary

Facing lifelong separation, William and Ellen Craft fled north in disguise, risking detection at every turn, all for the sake of freedom from slavery... Douglas Mawson battled a power greater than any human villain when Mother Nature trapped him in her icy Antarctic jaws... In 1943, Nazi guards packed hundreds of Belgian Jews into train cars headed for Auschwitz. Simon Gronowski, 11 years old, was determined to escape... Three inmates vanished from Alcatraz in 1962, never to be seen again... During the Cold War, 29 Germans from communist-controlled East Germany escaped through a tunnel under the Berlin Wall

Table Of Contents

Thousand miles -- Jaws of terra icognita -- Death train -- Breaking the Rock -- Tunnel 29

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Real tales of harrowing getaways

Creator