Synopses & Reviews
Review
This story is action packed and a real "page-turner." The reader will experience history and enjoy every moment. (Reviews from Parent Council, Spring/Summer 98")
Review
Perhaps the most intriguing of novels I've seen lately . . . Rees' story so sweetened with detail . . . it goes down easily, even with adult readers. (San Jose, Mercury News, Jan 11, 1998)
Review
Rees shows remarkable skill in distilling a complicated period in U.S. history into a boy's honest delivery of his own coming-of-age story. (Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books, Jan 98)
About the Author
Douglas Rees is a librarian in San Jose, California. Also a historian, he is following this, his first novel, with another set in 14th century Greenland.