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Sophie Casson (illus.)

Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance

By Anita Pazner - By Sophie Casson (illus.) - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

This fictionalized biography in verse for middle-grade readers narrates the story of siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the White Rose Resistance ...Read Review

The Prisoner and the Writer

By Heather Camlot - By Sophie Casson (illus.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason by the French government in 1894, was imprisoned on Devil’s Island, off the South American coast. ...Read Review