'You have to promise me. Not a word to anyone - not your father, not your mother, not your best friend, no one, not ever.'
Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret. Jewish children are being smuggled over the border into Spain, close to his village in the Pyrenees mountains. Now German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost their lives.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Fiction Award.
