The Return of the Twelves Author:Pauline Clarke, Cecil Leslie (Illustrator) It is Max who finds them: twelve old worn wooden soldiers, hidden in the attic of the English farmhouse his family has just moved into. He loves them at once, and isn't surprised at all--only thrilled--when he discovers the toy soldiers are alive. — Then Max learns that the Twelves once belonged to some famous people who lived nea... more »rby over a hundred years before, and that historians have long been searching for them. If they are found, the soldiers might be sold to a museum in America--where Max would never see them again.
Afterword by Katherine Paterson, author of the Newbery Medal winner Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved« less