Cat's Grin

This semiautobiographical novel covers the crucial year 1944-1945 in the life of 13-year-old Luc ``Cat'' Ponte-Serra. `` Firsthand accounts of civilian suffering and resistance, the unquenchable fight for a free France in the last year of WW II--both in Paris and the provinces--and unflinching revelations about the death camps make Cat's Grin a moving personal document,'' wrote PW. (July)