Shakespeare in the Orchard

In Langwarrin on the Mornington Peninsula, fourteen-year-old Jack Thorning is the best marksman in military cadet training. His brother, Matt, taught him everything he knew, but Matt has joined the war effort, and it’s up to Jack to hold down the home front and help his mother run the family orchard.
Then a group of POWs are sent to Langwarrin to be held prisoner and tensions in the town run high. Jack and Walter want nothing to do with the German prisoners. Then the inmates at the camp are put to work doing manual labour on Jack’s family orchard… What could Jack possibly have in common with the people keeping his beloved brother at war? And can Shakespeare bring them all together?