Summer of My German Soldier
In a small town called Jenkinsville lives a pre-teenage girl named Patty. She tells her story in the book Summer of My German Soldier. Its Patty's sixth grade summer. All her friends have gone off to summer camp. She couldn't go because it was with a Baptist Church and she is Jewish. In the story's time, WWII is going on and that's has to do with the NAZIS. Patty's father owns a store in the little town, which is where many important things happen during the course of the book. Jenkinsville is tuned in to housing ground for POWs. The POWs are put to work in the cotton fields. It's so hot in the Arkansas sun that they start to faint. Some of the POWs are taken to the local grocie store to buy some hats to protect them from the sun. Only one prisoner speaks both English and German fluently. His name is Fredrick Anton Reiker.Patty meets Anton for the first time in her fathers store. She waits on him. They get to know one another. They become kind of friends. Patty sells Anton a pin that looks like it has diamonds on it. It looks expensive. They hope to see each other again.A few days later two FBI agents come in to the store asking if they had seen the man they have in the picture his name is Fredrick Anton Reiker. They ask
Patty's father finds out blows it way out of proportion and says that patty let the man that gave here the ring touches her. He sees her and starts to take off her belt. She is sentenced to no more than six months no less than four, to spend in The Jasper E. Since the sheriff is there, that means that patty will not get beat because the sheriff will not let her father do it. Except that is was easy to relate to with Patty not being able to do anything right. In my whole life nobody has ever loved me'. Freddy sits and talks to her for about minute and her father drives up. Her father even backhands her mother once. He was planing on it because the law is after him. Instead of sleeping by the tracks, Patty asks him to come sleep up in the hide out above the garage. The FBI ask patty all about him and she says all the good things about him like he was nice and polite and what he bought.
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