Harpoon Island
By: Pieter van Raven.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Fiction.; Teachers -- Fiction.; Islands -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Description: A schoolteacher's attempt to start a new life on a sparsely populated island, where the villagers consider his withdrawn ten-year-old son to be an idiot, is further threatened when World War I breaks out and the teacher's German background is discovered.