A Spy on the Home Front

The year is 1944 and Molly is visiting her grandparents who happen to be German. This establishes one theme of the story, and that is what happened to some of the people of German ancestry in WWII in the U.S. Although the vast majority of people sent to internment camps in the U.S. were people of Japanese ancestry, some were sent who were German or Italian. In this Molly has a friend who also is from a German family and another family they know has already been sent to a camp and they fear they will also be sent.

A second theme is the prejudiced that was present against people of German ancestry in the war. Although this was nowhere near as bad as the prejudice against such people in World War I, it was still present, and in this case it seems that the head of the local (small) airport wants a German fired because he is German.

Another theme arises in the fear of domestic spying, and in this case incriminating anti-war flyers are found in Molly's Aunt's plane and even Aunt Eleanor ends up getting in trouble.

Then there's the theme of Molly trying to get to the bottom of the mystery to find out who really planted the flyers in her Aunt's plane, although in this area things prove to be much more complicated then Molly thought.

There are a number of themes in this book and they are all handled fairly well. It's a good addition to the series.

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