Product Description: An absorbing post-World War II adventure World War II has ended, but Henry is fighting his own battles.  He misses his father, who died a war hero, and his only distraction is the cinema. When Henry develops an old camera film he uncovers a mystery and events spiral until his life resembles the drama of his beloved big screen...read more

Product Description: It's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family...read more

Product Description: Book by Magorian, Michelle

A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.

Product Description: What would you rather, parents whose dreams are bigger than yours, or parents who have no dreams for you at all? How would you cope in a small boat with eight angry people giving you a bellyful of flack? Who'd you prefer to have as a friend, an old wrinkly who's there for you or a couple of mates who make you feel small? Ages 10+...read more

Product Description: Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Mum said war was a punishment from God for people's sins, so he'd better watch out. She didn't tell him what to watch out for, though. When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside...read more

Product Description: A rich and dramatic story of a young girl who manages to overcome many obstacles in her attempts to lead a normal life after World War II The war is over, but Elsie is still fighting her own battles. She’s bullied because she’s the only scholarship pupil at the grammar school, and she has an awkward relationship with her father as he struggles to assume a normal life after fighting in the war...read more

Product Description: A wonderfully nostalgic story about one boy’s determination to follow his dreams Amid the rubble of post-war Britain, Ralph is entranced by the theater. He loves seeing the performances, talking to the actors, the buzz of the audience, and the corridors and dressing rooms backstage...read more

A magical summer of love and war is the catalyst that changes Rose from an uncertain, gawky schoolgirl into a confident and assured woman. This love story is written by the author of 'Goodnight Mister Tom'.

A seventeen-year-old girl in 1940's England spends an unchaperoned summer at a cottage in a seaside village, where a series of diaries by the cottage's most recent inhabitant, together with some intense personal experiences, open up her life to reveal her true wants and priorities.A seventeen-year-old girl in 1940's England spends an unchaperoned summer at a cottage in a seaside village, where a series of diaries by the cottage's most recent inhabitant, together with some intense personal experiences, open up her life to reveal her true wants and priorities

Product Description: A collection of short stories in which water, in all its many shapes and forms, becomes a catalyst in the lives of the people it touches. A storm at sea, a swimming marathon, a midnight adventure, a flood, a boat race and a lost brother provide the backgrounds for these stories.

With his big sister Karin now going to school with the bigger kids, little Eric worries about attending day care all by himself, until Eric meets a little boy who is even smaller and more lost than he is