Told through the eyes of a fictional child, this is the otherwise true story of the brave Braal family who, in Nazi-occupied Holland, harbored people who faced certain death.

Based on a true event about a young girl forced to flee from the Turkish army, this novel is set at the end of World War I, when the Assyrians of northwestern Persia became the targets of Turkey's attempts to expand.

The story of the Kaplan family's brave and harrowing escape from the Nazis and journey three-quarters of the way around the world.

The discovery of a mass grave pulls Tom down into its darkness and beyond, where he discovers that he is in Ireland in 1847, at the height of the potato famine.