After their mother's murder, Sade and her brother are smuggled out of Nigeria and sent to London foster homes. Their father escapes to join them, but will be sent back to Nigeria unless Sade can tell the world what happened to her family. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a Los Angeles Times" Book Prize Finalist"
The story of four children's struggle to stay alive throughout the years of Nazi occuption and, afterwards, their epic journey from war-torn Poland to Switzerland in search of their parents.