Book Title: GIRL ON THE RUN (The Doktor’s Daughter) by Nancy McDonald Category: Middle-Grade Fiction (Ages 8-12), 174 pages Genre: Historical fiction Publisher: Iguana Books Release date: September, 2021 Content Rating: G. It’s middle grade. No foul language. No sex scenes.
Book Description:
It’s 1933 in Berlin. The Nazis have seized power, and for thirteen-year-old Amelie Meyer life is changing in ways she never could have imagined.
Her new teacher is picking on Jewish students, her friends are starting to shun her for not joining their Aryan youth group and her father is getting remarried. As tensions mount at home and school, Amelie embarks on a perilous journey – with nothing less than her whole future at stake.
Xander
has led a life of luxury with a cushy job in the family business. After his
father’s mysterious disappearance, Xander became CEO of the multi-million
dollar, international enterprise and tries to prove himself to everyone,
including himself.
Xander discovers
encrypted files in his father’s hidden safe that detail his illicit activities.
His father was more than disreputable—he was a member of a secret and
diabolical organization whose sole objective is world domination. In the files
are plans for the Berlin Device—a satellite weapons system that has the
potential for unparalleled destruction.
Chloe has scrimped and
saved for an amazing hiking vacation. When nothing goes right in her travels,
fate intervenes and she and Xander are thrown together in a hopeless quest
across Europe to recover the device before more innocent people die.
Dodging bullets, bombs,
and barbaric henchmen, Xander and Chloe discover a mysterious facility that
could become their final resting place…if their enemies have their way.
Can they escape with
their lives?
More importantly, can
they save the planet from The Berlin Device?
EXCERPT
“Damn it,” Chloe muttered to herself as she peered at her
computer monitor. The night before her long-awaited, glorious two-week vacation
to the Canary Islands, and she was still stuck at work. It always seemed as if she
had to work twenty hours of overtime the week before every vacation and twice
that amount when she returned.
She reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a colorful
brochure. It was well-worn from the hundreds of times she had looked at it. The
brochure promised two weeks of relaxing hiking and delicious, regional foods as
well as incredible views and a friendly group atmosphere. She looked around the
sea of cubicles and thought she could use a friendly group atmosphere. Not one
of her co-workers had offered to stay and help her out with the report that her
boss insisted he needed by tomorrow morning. She frowned and vowed to never
again volunteer to help them when they were overworked or wanted to
leave—especially because she hadn’t even packed yet! Chloe vowed that things
would change when she returned.
AUTHOR Bio and Links
Tammy Wunsch is
an International Writer of Mystery, Travel, and Wine – with a fierce
entrepreneurial side. She spent most of her life in the Quiet Corner of
Connecticut but currently resides in the Denver metropolitan area. Formally
educated in business, she has worked in a variety of industries and is
adventurous by nature. She is passionate about animals and loves to travel,
cook, kayak, and read.
