BookLinks: A Father's Promise Set (teaching guide and novel)

The Study Guide

An in-depth study of this novel links literature to content areas and life skills. It develops a student's ability to understand and evaluate what he reads. A laminated folder provides background information and enrichment activities in useful storage pockets. The teaching guide includes lessons, practical Scriptural applications, and dozens of reproducible activity pages. Includes teaching guide and novel.

The Novel

Adolf Hitler's ominous statements seem only a distant threat to eleven-year-old Rudi Kaplan. But when the Nazi forces invade Poland and bomb his home city of Warsaw, Rudi finds out that he is Hitler's enemy not only because he is a Pole, but also because he's a Jew--and a Christian. The next few years change Rudi's life forever. With only his imprisoned father's promise that they will be reunited after the war, Rudi must learn how to survive in hiding, how to be truly brave, and how to overcome the hatred of his enemies. He must learn to die to himself and to trust the God who is mightier than any army.