Books published by publisher Criterion Books

A Criterion Book For Young People; A 1959 Selection of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club; The characters in this book are fictitious, but the story is based upon true fact. Imaginary names have been given to a few of the places mentioned- they are the villages of Boding and Kolina, the River Falken, the town of Falkenburg and the prison camp of Zakyna. All other place-names are real and can be found on the map of Europe. The description of the Red Army in the march is based on eye-witness accounts in J. Stransky's East Wind over Prague. I.S.

Trying to escape misunderstandings at home and prejudice at school, a thirteen-year-old half breed runs away to live in the hills with an old Indian hermit and returns home several months later a mature young man who recognizes that not all whites are bad nor Indians good.Jerry Foster has to please his white father and his Indian mother in the process of developing into manhood