It would have been nice to see some of the main characters have more depth to them. I did feel that some of the main characters were underdeveloped in a story that attempts to address a lot of complex social issues. It certainly illustrates the discrimination that people face when they are in a foreign country especially during wartime when everyone is suspicious of people that are different from them. This would be a great book to integrate social studies and history lessons with for students in upper elementary and older. : Bunting, Eve : Ballantine Books : 1996-9 : 160 : CDN 10.99 : Pap ISBN: 9780449704554. Personal Response: I enjoyed the story and found I was engaged the whole way through. Miss Muller is a popular teacher before the war, but because she is half German and it's wartime, students at the school harass her and grow suspicious of her every move. Jamie and her friends convince themselves that the German teacher at their school is a spy for the Germans and they set out to make her life miserable. Plot: The story is told through first person point of view through the eyes of Jamie Drumm. Setting: Boarding school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during WWII.
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