My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines

By: Mary Mckay Maynard

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Synopsis: [From the back cover:] "When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and attacked the Philippines, eight-year-old Mary McKay, her parents, and several other American families fled into the jungle for what they thought would be a short evacuation until they could be rescued by the Navy. Their wait lasted two years. My Faraway Home is the fascinating story of how they survived. Encountering typhoons, fires, and cobras, they lived on dwindling stores of canned food, traded with loyal Filipino villagers who wouldn't betray their hideout, and learned to improvise their own shoes (from rubber tyres), soap (from pig fat), and other necessities. Like the classics The Diary of Anne Frank or Empire of the Sun, My Faraway Home gives a fresh perspective on war through a child's eyes."