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Will Elliot\'s ability to detach himself from the turmoil around him be enough to sustain him when prejudice and suspicions erupt into violence? And can Robert find his own way to deal with the shocking truth about his family\'s past?.
And he wonders more and more about the family secret everyone seems to be Keeping from him--a secret involving Robert\'s father, a bomber pilot in Europe.
As Robert watches the townspeople\'s hostility toward Hoffman build, he worries about his sensitive cousin Elliot\'s friendship with the artist.
And for Robert, a more personal fear, of his hot-tempered, controlling grandfather.
Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town.
The War At Home Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore.
Winner of the Scott O\'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
When violence erupts in his own house, Robert is afraid he and his family may not survive the war. ships.
In the spring of 1942, young Robert and his family are living out the war in Rhode Island where Nazi subs are torpedoing U.
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