Jablonski, Carla

In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.

Although their father is in a German P.O.W. camp, Paul and Marie are barely touched by World War II in Vichy, France, in 1942. But, when their friend Henri's parents disappear, the children decide to hide their Jewish friend from the Nazis and soon find themselves involved in the French Resistance.

Wishbone the dog, determined to help his friend Joe Talbot overcome his fears and suspicions, imagines himself as Ichabod Crane, the famous nineteenth-century schoolteacher who thinks he knows all about getting rid of ghosts and evil spirits until he encounters the Headless Horseman.