Island War by Patricia Reilly Giff

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

I was more than tired after being in the kayak all night, waiting for Dad. When it was light, I finally gave up. I didn’t go to our house, though. Not without Pop there.

Instead I went to the schoolhouse, to my old classroom, and lay on the floor, pulling my jacket around me.

I couldn’t sleep. I tossed and turned.

What had happened to him?

I went over our plan again and again: the two-man kayak. Pop coming to my cove.

Could I have made a mistake? Or was it something else?

Had he fallen against the rocks somewhere? Or had he been caught by the soldiers and taken to the ship? Maybe he was on his way to a prison camp in Japan.

It was terrible to think about.

I couldn’t sleep after all. I’d have to go home, to see if somehow he might be there. If not, I had to search. And in spite of everything, I was hungry. Would Pop have taken the food, or would it still be in the house?

The door was open. Unlike Pop not to have been more careful. And inside was a mess!

A blanket was balled up on the couch, and the kitchen! A thin line of sugar trailed along the floor. A few strips of dried salmon lay on the table. Pop had said we’d have food. But it had to have been more than this. Someone must have taken some of it.

I glanced into the bedrooms, then went back to the living room and sank down on the couch. Someone had been there, and it hadn’t been Pop. Some of the soldiers might have stayed.

The most important thing…I began to tell myself.

What was the most important thing?

To get out of the house.

To get out now.

I raced into my bedroom, grabbed an extra sweater, dry pants, and the jacket Mom had given me before I’d left home, small now, but warm.

I dashed back through the living room and into the kitchen, scooping up salmon, and went out the front door.

I had to find a place to stay while I searched for Pop, and it couldn’t be in the village. It had to be where I could see the houses, and maybe the soldiers.

Where?

I couldn’t think of that now.

Pop first.

I looked around. Where to begin?

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