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Ever since 13-year-old Saara returned from caring for her family�s relatives, she�s been so grown-up and focused on her goal of becoming a teacher. Nine-year-old John jokes and plays pranks, but instead of laughs, all he gets is nagging. What really drives him crazy, though, is what his older sister won�t take seriously: the possibility that enemy spies and saboteurs might be at work in 1915 in Ca... More

Ever since 13-year-old Saara returned from caring for her family�s relatives, she�s been so grown-up and focused on her goal of becoming a teacher. Nine-year-old John jokes and plays pranks, but instead of laughs, all he gets is nagging. What really drives him crazy, though, is what his older sister won�t take seriously: the possibility that enemy spies and saboteurs might be at work in 1915 in Canada-even right here in Port Arthur, Ontario. She thinks that sort of thing only happens in important places.

But for once, John knows better. As a newsboy, he�s aware that all of Canada�s grain headed for hungry sol�diers in Europe comes through Port Arthur first. He�s read the reports of bridges blown up and spies captured. Like Saara, John has a dream: to be a reporter. So he keeps his eyes peeled, waiting for the big story.

Meanwhile, Saara worries about the mountain of schoolwork she must make up, and about her German friend who�s hauled off to an internment camp with her family. And then there�s her brother-a pest! A nuisance! A TRIAL! She and John can�t stop fighting.

Suddenly, a saboteur does strike-and even more shockingly, Saara and John�s own family is in danger! Can sister and brother finally trust each other and work together to save their family?

In this final book of the trilogy about the Finnish M�ki family in early Thunder Bay, author Karen Autio responds to readers� requests for "more about John!" She has crafted an adventure tale based on real espionage, sabotage and paranoia in Canada during the Great War, a tale cleverly told in Saara�s and John�s alternating points of view.

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