• Age: 7 to 11
• Grade: 2 to 6
• Reading age: 6 to 12

ENGLAND, SUMMER 1940. Following a brush with death on the Irish Sea, ten-year-old Käfer Avigdor unexpectedly finds himself back in London. There, he stumbles upon a sinister Nazi plot, which targets hundreds of people in Britain — including the most powerful man in the country. The one person who might be able to defeat Adolf Hitler. With the Germans threatening to invade England at any moment, Käfer musters all his courage and ingenuity in a valiant effort to thwart the Nazis. But will he succeed in time to save the day? One Boy’s War, the sequel to Boy from Berlin, is inspired by real people and historical events.

Nancy McDonald’s career as a journalist included the television programs W5, Canada AM, and Marketplace; she then went on to become a sought-after freelance writer, penning everything from documentaries to live-action scripts to comic books. Boy from Berlin is her first full-length novel. She’s working on a sequel. Nancy lives in Stratford, Ontario, where she revels in Shakespeare, takes theatregoers on tours of the Costume Warehouse, and treads the boards with the Perth County Players. She invites you to visit her at www.nancymcdonald.ca.

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