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Bette Jean Greene was the author of several books for children and young adults, including Summer of My German Soldier, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, and the Newbery Honor book Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe.
Bette Evensky Greene was a successful novelist who was raised in Arkansas and who used Arkansas as the setting for many of her novels.

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Bette Greene’s 'Summer of My German Soldier': Bad Family and an Unlikely Savior | Jewish Book Council

Patty is a child desperate for attention and love, and her point of view is a classic example of an unreliable narrator. When the POWs arrive, the ignorant, and deplorably racist, white residents of Jenkinsville seem to ascribe the worst motives to them. Patty, on the other hand, sees them as innocent: “I tried to read their faces for brutality, terror, humiliation — something. But the only thing I sensed was a kind of relief at finally having arrived at their destination.” When a woman shouts “Nazis!,” a prisoner’s response is to smile and wave at her.

One day, as the group of POWs is escorted to Mr. Bergen’s store to shop for sun hats, Anton Reiker stands out. While the rest have blond or light brown hair, he alone has dark hair. He is fluent in English — his mother is from Britain — and is asked to translate. So singular is his skill that “ … at his approach the men parted like the Red Sea for the Isr

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Obituary: Bette Greene

Award-winning author Bette Greene, known for her books that honestly addressed difficult subject matter, including the often banned or challenged YA novels Summer of My German Soldier and The Drowning of Stephan Jones,died on October 2 of congestive heart failure at her assisted living facility in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. She was 86.

Greene was born June 28, 1934 in Memphis and grew up in Parkin, Ark., the small town where her parents owned and ran a general store. Because her mother and father were so busy at their store, much of Greene’s childhood was spent in the care of the family’s African American housekeeper, Ruth. That relationship would later inspire the one at the heart of Summer of My German Soldier, in which a 12-year-old Jewish girl in rural Arkansas being raised by her African American housekeeper during WWII befriends and aids an escaped German prisoner of war. It wasn’t until a 2011 video interview with Open Road that Greene said—after denying it for 40 years—that the story

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Bette Greene

American writer (1934–2020)

Bette Jean Greene (née Evensky; June 28, 1934 – October 2, 2020) was the author of several books for children and young adults, including Summer of My German Soldier, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, and the Newbery Honor book Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe.

Greene was raised in Parkin, Arkansas, where she stuck out as a Jewish girl in the American South during the Great Depression and World War II. Her books focus on themes of injustice and alienation. Her book, Summer of My German Soldier, is based heavily on her childhood. She has received the Golden Kite Award, ALA Notable Book Award, and Newbery Honor.

Biography

Greene was born on June 28, 1934, in Memphis, Tennessee^[1] to Arthur Evensky and Sadie (née Steinberg), but was raised in the small city of Parkin, Arkansas, where her parents ran the general store. Her maternal grandparents were Hyman and Tillie Steinberg who had a successful general store in Wynne, Arkansas.^[2]^[3] As a Jewish girl in a town of Christian fundamenta