TY - BOOK AU - Gratz,Alan TI - Allies SN - 9781407198798 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - France KW - Normandy KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Underground movements KW - German American soldiers KW - Survival KW - Normandy (France) KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - Lexile : 780L; Includes author's note with historical information on D-Day operations (pages 309-322) N2 - It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive ER -