Secret Soldiers: A Novel of World War I

Over a quarter million underage British boys fought on the Allied front lines of the Great War, but not all of them fought on the battlefield-some fought beneath it, as revealed in this middle-grade historical adventure about a deadly underground mission.

Secret Soldiers follows the journey of Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner, who lies about his age to join the Claykickers, a specialized crew of soldiers known as “tunnelers,” in hopes of finding his missing older brother. Thomas works ...