Setting: Cuba
Time Period: Modern Day

This is probably the most suspenseful book in the Barton Family Adventure Series. In this last chapter book, Nat and his family find themselves in the middle of a storm at sea that blows their yacht into Cuban waters. Arrested as spies, Nat, Ruth and their parents are fearful about what might happen to them…until a familiar face shows up to rescue them.

What I really liked about Escape was how it tied up a lot of loose ends from the first book. In books one and two, you think that the Barton’s are just any ole family out there doing the Lord’s work – and for the most part they are – but then they find themselves in this kind of a mess, and a whole other realm of possibility is opened. It was an intense read that would be of interest to a younger age group. Also, this series falls under the rare category of having the main character be a boy, so if you have boys who like to read and are tired of books where all the main characters are girls, give this series a try!