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 the "if you have seen him we need to know" kind of deal. 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.
             Anton and Patty do meet again but it's down by the railroad tracks by Patty's house. She sees him and runs after him just to talk to him. Patty doesn't want Anton to sleep by the tracks and hop a train in the morning. He was planing on it because the law is after him. They think he is going to teem up with the German U-boats and become a spy. Instead of sleeping by the tracks, Patty asks him to come sleep up in the hide out above the garage. He doses. He spends about maybe...