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Backpack, Boy, Berlin
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Expected 31 Dec 26Kip Wilson is a highly acclaimed YA historical fiction writer, and this is her debut middle grade!
BACKPACK, BOY, BERLIN is about Don Heath, Jr., the 11-year-old boy who secretly carried information between his American diplomat father and the anti-Nazi resistance group leader Mildred Harnack. Kip's books are meticulously researched, and written in verse--a great way to bring history to younger listeners.
BACKPACK, BOY, BERLIN is about Don Heath, Jr., the 11-year-old boy who secretly carried information between his American diplomat father and the anti-Nazi resistance group leader Mildred Harnack. Kip's books are meticulously researched, and written in verse--a great way to bring history to younger listeners.
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Kip Wilson
20 books248 followersKip Wilson is the critically acclaimed YA author of verse novels White Rose (Versify, 2019), The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin (Versify, 2022), and One Last Shot (Versify, 2023). Awards for her books include the Malka Penn Award and the Julia Ward Howe Award, and her books have been named a Massachusetts Book Honor title, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award finalist, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Her next project, All the Love Under the Vast Sky, is a YA anthology of stories in verse (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2025). Kip holds a Ph.D. in German Literature and is an enthusiastic high school library worker. Find her online at kipwilsonwrites.com and on Instagram @kipwilsonwrites.
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