Miriam doesn't understand why her mum is buying more food than they
need, and storing it away. Or why her parents have given her the
nickname, Mandy. Her friend Pam says it's because war is coming. And,
if the Nazis invade, it will be dangerous for her to have a Jewish
name. But that's not going to happen, is it?
Outbreak is a historical story set at the start of World War II.

Alison Prince was joint winner of the Guardian Fiction Award in 1996 for The Sherwood Hero and is particularly known for her historical fiction. She has had many books published with OUP and has written two titles for Scholastic's My Story series, My Tudor Queen and Anne Boleyn and Me.