1939

<p><strong>Spies. Secrets. A War No One Wants to Admit Is Coming. </strong><br>Rishaan Finch is twelve restless and far too observant for the comfort of the adults around him. He's grown up between embassies and battlefields with a British war hero for a grandfather and a father who just might be more than a diplomat. It's early 1939 and London is blanketed in snow-and denial. But when Rishaan picks up a ringing telephone in a locked attic he's suddenly holding a message meant for a spy. Now he's chasing coded clues through frozen streets and foggy backrooms delivering intelligence to Winston Churchill and watching Zeppelins drift just out of reach over the English Channel. The grown-ups say there's no war coming. Rishaan knows better-and he's in too deep to back out. Rishaan is about to learn what it really means to be brave. Because some messages can't wait some adults can't be trusted-and sometimes it takes a kid to see what others refuse to. 1939 is a gripping historical spy thriller for young readers-full of codebreaking close calls and the real-world tension of a world on the brink.</p>