Book Description
Jack and George have barely recovered from their ordeal at Camp X when their lives are disrupted once again. Informed that they may still be in danger, they are relocated to Bowmanville, where their mother has been offered a clerking job in a prisoner of war camp holding the highest-ranking German officers. The boys’ initial fear of the camp is replaced by open curiosity, and on visits to their mother’s workplace, they begin to know - and even to like - the prisoners they meet. When they are offered the after-school job of delivering the camp’s mail, however, their involvement deepens and soon Canadian agents ask them to keep their eyes and ears open for possible escape plans. For, as the boys are told, it is a matter of loyalty to their homeland that the German prisoners must try to escape, even if it costs them their lives - and the lives of two boys in the wrong place at the wrong time.
About the Author
ERIC WALTERS is the author of thirty-two acclaimed and bestselling novels for children and young adults. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Silver Birch, Blue Heron, Red Maple, Snow Willow, Ruth Schwartz and Tiny Torgi, and have received honours from the Canadian Library Association Book Awards and UNESCO’s international award for Literature in Service of Tolerance. Run, his novel about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope, has been a bestseller.
Eric resides in Mississauga with his wife, Anita, and children, Christina, Nicholas and Julia. When not writing or touring across the country speaking to school groups, Eric spends time playing or watching soccer and basketball, or playing the saxophone.
