Books with author Bette Greene

('I'm a Jew,' said Patty's father, and I'd rather help a mad dog escape from the pound than help a Nazi.'When Patty Bergen sells a red pencil-sharpener to the German prisoner in her father's store, a friendship is started which is to bring her much unhappiness, but also the greatest joy she's ever known.An exciting and deeply moving story of a friendship which breaks down all barriers)An absorbing and moving story set in wartime America

'A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent '(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator' the New York Times 'Greene is as elegant as ever, cutting through the fog of complexity with insight and clarity; space and time become putty in his hands' Los Angeles Times Book Review