This slim vol­ume describes the epony­mous brave deeds of Frans and Mies Braal, whose brav­ery and gen­eros­i­ty helped save many peo­ple from death in Hol­land dur­ing World War II. The nar­ra­tor is an unnamed child, who describes leav­ing home with a man who brings him (or her) to the Braals’ home in the coun­try, where the fam­i­ly hid many peo­ple. Resis­tance work­ers, Jews, and injured fight­ers all took refuge. The nar­ra­tor tells of the dif­fi­cul­ty in get­ting enough food with­out arous­ing sus­pi­cion, the kind­ness of neigh­bors who helped them with obtain­ing sup­plies and giv­ing advance warn­ing of raids. The read­er also learns how every­one shared chores, stud­ied, and even man­aged enter­tain­ment, and shares in the joy as the narrator’s fam­i­ly is reunit­ed at the end of the book. Maps, brief his­tor­i­cal notes, a glos­sary, and pho­tographs sup­ple­ment the text. The author’s deci­sion to present the text through the eyes of a young nar­ra­tor makes the mate­r­i­al more acces­si­ble to younger read­ers, but hav­ing the nar­ra­tor be anony­mous also serves to dis­tance the read­er from the events and actions described. At the same time, the nar­ra­tor refers with lit­tle expla­na­tion to orga­ni­za­tions and events which chil­dren today may not rec­og­nize, mak­ing the his­to­ry feel even more remote. Nonethe­less, this sto­ry pro­vides a great intro­duc­tion for younger read­ers to the courage and prin­ci­ples of the Braals and oth­ers like them who saved a great many lives. Ages 10 – 14.