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Kevin Whipple.
Timid Cory longs to live up to his family's heroic legacy in this novel of life on the home front during WWII. Cory's relationship with his soldier father--whom Cory creates a superhero comic for while he's overseas--is poignant, but the plot treads well-worn ground as Cory suspects someone of being a Nazi spy and discovers truths about his own ancestry. Reading list, websites.