From "Booklist", by Ilene Cooper

"On the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the author was an eight-year-old living in the Philippines, where her father ran a mine.   Her parents thought the war would be over in weeks.   Instead, they were forced to flee to the jungle, where they stayed in hiding for two years while battling heat, hunger, and natural disasters such as fire and typhoons.   All the while, young Mary and her parents worried about her teenage brother, away in boarding school near Manila.   A fascinating chapter at the end tells Bob's story, how he managed to stay alive in internment camps and outlast the bombing of Manila.   In November 1943, the family escaped on a submarine, but the danger was not over -- the sub came under attack.   Maynard writes simply yet effectively, capturing the feeling of what it was like for her younger self to experience the horrors of war and the exhilaration that was also a part of it.  A fascinating look at a different home front."