"Jo should have known better. After all Papa had told him often enough: 'Whittle a stick, pick berries, eat, look for your eagle if you must,' he said, 'but do something.'"
Chap. 1, p. 7

"The whole day had been like a bad dream that had turned suddenly and intensely intriguing—a dream he wanted to cling to."
Chap. 2, p. 21

"For some weeks after this the village was diverted, its spirits lifted by stories of the great bear hunt, stories that eclipsed even the grim news of the war, of more German victories everywhere."
Chap. 2, p. 28

"Never in his life had he felt like screaming until this moment."
Chap. 2, p. 35

"'Within days there'll be a company of soldiers living here.'"
Chap. 3, pp. 47

"Someone had to go and find out what had happened to them and Jo knew it would have to be him."
Chap. 4, p. 54

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