Threat of the Spider

Written by Michael P. Spradlin

Part of the The Web of the Spider series

A boy's quest to find his missing father uncovers dark secrets in Nazi Germany.

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176 pages

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In Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Ansel faces a daunting challenge: his father, a journalist battling Nazi propaganda, has vanished. As the Hitler Youth tighten their grip, Ansel and his friends must channel their inner detectives to uncover the truth. With the local police compromised, can they outsmart the oppressive regime and rescue his father before it's too late? Dive into a gripping tale of courage and resistance where every clue could be their last hope.

From the publisher

A twelve-year-old boy searches for his father and fights for free press amid the chilling rise of Hitler’s Germany in this second book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided. Ansel has never been afraid to say what’s on his mind. He’s always the first among his friends to speak up when something doesn’t feel right. When the Hitler Youth first set up shop in Heroldsberg the year before, Ansel quickly made enemies of the chapter’s arrogant leader, Hans. Of course, Ansel is also twelve years old, so he spends much of his time reading his favorite Dirk Goodly, Boy Detective novels and trying to make his friends laugh. But more and more of his classmates have been swayed by Hans’s tactics and the Youth organization is growing throughout the city. Ansel knows that Hans and his group are spreading false information–after all, Ansel’s father is a journalist for the local paper and has been going toe to toe with Nazi propaganda for a long time. Then Ansel’s father goes missing right before a prominent Nazi leader comes to town. With the local police in the Nazi’s pocket, can Ansel and his friends use their detective skills to find his father and thwart the Nazi’s plans to suppress the truth?

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