gets his group to the boat, he has to go on. Peter doesn’t tell Mr. Rosen what’s in the packet, and Annemarie realizes he is protecting Mr. Rosen by not telling him everything. 

Mr. Rosen trips and drops the packet. Annemarie’s mother realizes this and worried their preparations “may all have been for nothing.” Annemarie knows the packet is important, so she volunteers to take it. 

Annemarie took the packet from her mother's hand and stood. "I will take it," she said. "I know the way, and it's almost light now. I can run like the wind" (Chapter 13). 

Mama has her get a small basket so she can pretend she is getting her uncle food if she is stopped. While a woman going early in the morning to see a fisherman might be suspicious, a little girl carrying lunch would not be. Annemarie will pretend to be a silly little girl if anyone stops her. 

Annemarie is stopped by four German soldiers with dogs. Although she is afraid, she tells them exactly what she planned to say: she is out early because she is bringing her fisherman uncle his lunch. She tries to think of what Kirsti would say, and chatters away like a little girl about how her uncle can’t stand fish. 

The soldiers take the food and complain there is no meat.  One finds a handkerchief at the bottom of the basket, but doesn’t know what it is. Later, Henrik thanks Annemarie for being brave. He tells her the dogs are used to sniff out hiding Jews, but there is something in the handkerchief that ruins their sense of smell.

In Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, Mrs. Johansen takes Annemarie, Kirsti, and Ellen to visit Uncle Henrik in Gilleleje so they can prepare to get Ellen and her parents, who are Jewish, out of Denmark and to safety in Sweden.

Ellen Rosen is staying with the Johansen family, pretending to be a third daughter, because her parents have had to go into hiding to avoid being “relocated” by the Nazis. German soldiers come to the Johansen apartment looking for the Rosens, but they are convinced that Ellen is a Johansen because she looks enough like the picture of Lise (the third Johansen sister, who died three years before) to pass for her.

The Johansens, however, know that Ellen is not safe with them for long, and they must reunite her with her parents and get them all to safety. This is why Annemarie's mother takes them to Gilleleje to visit Uncle Henrik. Henrik is a fisherman, but he is also a member of the Danish resistance, and he has been smuggling Jews over to Sweden in his fishing boat.

The plan works, but just barely, as Ellen and her parents make it to safety thanks to Annemarie's quick thinking and the bravery of her family and friends.