In Lost in Spain (F&W $11.95) a family vacation turns deadly when Ted's political activist father slips into the war-zone to witness firsthand the conditions of the Spanish Civil War and, shortly after, Ted's mother is badly injured in a street riot. Can a fifteen-year-old boy, and a young Spanish girl, survive the war-ravaged countryside in their desperate search for Ted's father? John Wilson has also written another book for young readers about the most famous of the hundreds of Canadian volunteers who went to Spain during the Civil War in Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction. 1-55041-5239

[BCBW Summer 2000]