The Shepherds' War

June 1968 was supposed to start the Best Summer Vacation Ever. For as long as Spencer could remember, things had been getting better and better. TV was in full color, Apollo astronauts were making a leap for the Moon, and the Super Ball had forever shattered the Ordinary Toy Barrier. Spencer was finally tall enough to ride The Wild Mouse at Crystal Beach. Even his big brother Noah couldn't ruin it. Noah didn't talk, didn't go to school, didn't play outside, and Spencer had to keep an eye on him. But he wasn't going to let that stop him. Then out of the blue Noah started to talk. And out of the blue he knew things he shouldn't have been able to know. Then, just as suddenly, Noah vanished into the blue. And when Spencer set off to find him, his summer vacation exploded into an adventure with more twists and turns than ten rides on The Wild Mouse. In his search Spencer has to take on a Nazi psychologist, a KGB mom, and a teen-age bully with mind-control powers. Raised on Frankenstein movies and Iron Man comics, Spencer doesn't shrink from the challenge. After all, he's already ten-and-a-half years old.