TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoyt,Megan
AU  - Bruno,Iacopo
TI  - Bartali's bicycle: the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero 
SN  - 9780062908117
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Bartali, Gino,
KW  - Tour de France (Bicycle race)
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Cyclists
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Jews
KW  - Rescue
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - History
KW  - 1914-1945
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Ages 4-8
N2  - Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested. To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. But Gino's greatest achievement was something he never told a soul--that he secretly worked with the Italian resistance to save hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children, and others, from certain death, using the one thing no authority would question: his bicycle
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