Twelve-year-old Chico Filippo, whose own donkeys were confiscated years before by the German army, can't stay away from the newly set up American Remount Depot. Here, in the last months of World War II in Italy, thousands of supply mules and donkeys are processed and sent on to the fierce mountain fighting in the Apennines. One of the handlers introduces Chico to a small courageous animal the boy names Sergeant Donkey. Drawn into friendship and then into unexpected danger, Chico must demonstrate his own simple courage.

Italy, 1940s
RL6.8
Of read-aloud interest ages 8-up

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Maureen Daly (1921-2006) has been a well-known name to young readers ever since her first novel Seventeenth Summer was published in 1942. Her writing career got off to an auspicious start when at age 16 her short story Sixteen won first prize in Scholastic Magazine's short story contest and was selected for the O. Henry Best Short Stories Collection the same year. Her last novels included Acts of Love and Promises to Keep from Scholastic Books.

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