 Danger, intrigue, and a handsome, mysterious boy follow Vivi to Florida to visit her grandmother. No big, bad wolf but a Nazi spy awaits her. An exciting tale about the ship, St. Louis whose passengers fled from Europe during the Holocaust, only to be turned away from American shores. An ALA BEST BOOK.  It's summer vacation again and Vivi must spend it with her mother, Dr. Miriam Markham Davis. A university professor at the Sorbonne in France, Mom is in Istanbul, Turkey for an important Linguistics meeting. "I will meet you at the airport in Istanbul," her letter said. But Vivi waits and waits and Mom does not arrive. Who is the Arab girl who comes to meet her instead? Can Vivi trust her? A mysterious Arab girl, an ancient Chinese Torah Scroll, a mid-east terrorist and a frantic plane trip across Turkey fill Vivi's search for her mother with excitement and danger.  When a Jewish high school girl is found dead on a Seneca Indian Reservation and a Seneca boy is accused of her murder, can Vivi find the true killer and save her new Indian friend from an angry mob? |
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