Awards and HonorsBooklist Best Young Adult Books of 2015; 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 9–12
Children’s Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2016, Historical Fiction
1915: While Alfie and his father are fishing near their home off the coast of England, they find a girl on a deserted isle. The girl is starving, injured, mute . . . and villagers fear she may be a German spy. Background information on the Lusitania, the U-boat campaign in World War I, the Isles of Scilly, and the Schiller.