Newly independent readers may need the story's cliffhangers, but they also deserve unhackneyed plot twists, interesting characters, and a richer sense of time and place. The Friedrich family embodies a plethora of German stereotypes their son's tricks would fool no one. Unfortunately, Mike's stow suffers from one-dimensional characters and unimaginative plotting. Friedrich, but then decides to live with an army captain and his wife at Fort Leavenworth. Friedrich of murder and then discovers the secret: Ulrich died in a German prison, accused of stealing to feed the family. When the hired man disappears without a word, Mike accuses Mr.
Friedrich is glad to fill Mike with delicious food, but cowers when her husband demands her silence. Friedrich is really whipping someone from the past-Ulrich, his eldest son. From the beginning, Mike believes his new family has left a secret in their native Germany, and although the tricks plotted by the Friedrichs' loutish son earn Mike severe beatings, Mike suspects that Mr. Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. In this second book of the Orphan Train Quartet, the story of the six Kelly children continues with 11-year-old Mike's experiences on a Missouri farm. Buy a used copy of Caught in the Act book by Joan Lowery Nixon.
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