And the Baker's Boy Went to Sea

Owen Pasquerly, barely 15, is supposed to be 17 or more to serve on a submarine in World War II. His friends get the exciting jobs of lookout and guiding the sub in a dive. Owen's stuck doing what he did back home: baking bread. "Where's the glory in that?" he wonders, even as he does what he's told to keep Captain Abbott's suspicions about his age from sending him home. Then again, maybe Owen never will get home. Maybe the U.S.S. MAKO, loaded with torpedoes for hunting Japanese ships, will itself become the hunted. But there's no "maybe" about it. Owen and his shipmates are in for the battle of their lives. And not everyone will survive.