Samira tried to back away, but the person she’d run into quickly put a hand on her arm to keep her still. Quick and quiet as a fox, Samira jumped the two steps up to the doorway and darted into the small sliver of shadow where the Nazis wouldn’t see her-and ran right into the other person who was already hiding there.

The one her mother had worn, before the Nazis had stolen her away. Samira spotted a shop doorway that was set back from the street and hurried toward it, one hand around Cyrano and the other clutching the bottom of the blue kerchief she wore around her head. Samira was French-Algerian, and the Nazis would see she was one of the people they considered inferior and regularly shipped off to work camps. Samira’s simple green dress and brown sweater might help her blend in as a villager if she was caught, but her light brown skin and black hair would definitely make her stand out. She had been helping her mother run messages to and from the French Resistance for months, and in the past few hours she’d actually helped the French Resistance sabotage German trains.

People who were caught out after hours were often shot on sight as spies.Īnd Samira really was a spy. It was long after curfew, the time the Nazis set for everyone in this part of occupied France to be inside their homes. The soldiers were too wrapped up in whatever they were laughing about to have spotted her yet, and Samira snatched Cyrano up in her arms and looked for a place to hide. He seemed to hate Nazis even more than Samira did. Beside her, the little white dog that had become Samira’s friend and companion in the last few hours, a scrappy terrier she’d named Cyrano, growled at the soldiers. Five Nazi officers staggered out into the lane, laughing and barking loudly at each other in German. They are also connected in ways that will shock them-and could alter their destinies forever.īestselling author Alan Gratz is at the top of his game, shining a light on our increasingly urgent climate crisis while spinning an action-packed story that will keep readers hooked-and inspire them to take action.The door to the tavern down the street swung open, and Samira Zidane gasped in horror. When the floodwaters crash into her house, Natalie is dragged out into the storm-with nowhere to hide.Īkira, Owen, George, and Natalie are all swept up in the devastating effects of climate change. Natalie hunkers down at home as a massive hurricane barrels toward Miami. But when one bear gets way too close for comfort, do the boys have any chance of surviving?

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