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('I'm a Jew,' said Patty's father, and I'd rather help a mad dog escape from the pound than help a Nazi.'When Patty Bergen sells a red pencil-sharpener to the German prisoner in her father's store, a friendship is started which is to bring her much unhappiness, but also the greatest joy she's ever known.An exciting and deeply moving story of a friendship which breaks down all barriers)An absorbing and moving story set in wartime America

While the Grey family is visiting the battlefields of France, their mother becomes seriously ill. Their father is far away, busy with his work as an explorer. So thirteen year-old Cecil is left virtually alone with her brothers and sisters in a French chateau-hotel, owned by Mademoiselle Zizi. While Cecil watches from the sidelines, her beautiful older sister Joss falls in love with Eliot, the charming English gentleman who appoints himself the family's guardian. And while the greengages grow ripe and sweet in the sun, the sense of danger and mystery increases.