Michael Morpurgo
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Description
Told in the voice of Private Tommo Peaceful, the story follows twenty-four hours at the front, and captures his memories of his family and his village life - by no means as tranquil as it appeared. Full of vivid detail and engrossing atmosphere, leading to a dramatic and moving conclusion, Private Peaceful is both a compelling love story and a deeply moving account of the First World War.
3) War horse
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Series
Description
Recounts the experiences of Joey the horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War One.
4) Flamingo boy
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
An autistic boy and Roma girl struggle to save the people they love, and the flamingos that live on the salt flats that surround their homes as World War II come to the Camargue in France.
6) Our Jacko
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Description
Two brothers learn about the life of their great-great-grandfather who was killed in World War I.
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Pub. Date
2014
Description
When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live on a farm with a host family, the soldier must adapt to a new way of life, in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually, he shows his new hosts that he may be German, but he is a person too, with all the hopes and feelings that entails. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany, it's an emotional parting, with the...
10) Conker
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Series
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When Nick goes to collect conkers from Cotter's yard, he finds a half-starved dog chained up. Nick leaves with the conkers but plans to rescue the dog later. When he returns the dog is gone. He blames himself, but when he returns home there's a surprise.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Description
From Michael Morpurgo, co-founder of the charity Farms for City Children, this charming story for early readers evokes the wonder, muck and magic of a week on the farm. The first of many Farm Tales to come, it is a window onto the countryside, and the way its landscape and animals can leave an impression on a child?s heart forever. ?You?re farmers for a week, so you?ll be busy. There?ll be no time to misshome. You?ll eat like kings and queens,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Full of friendship and adventure, these three uplifting stories capture the wonder, muck and magic of a city child?s week on the farm. Join in the daring rescue of a lost lamb, meet a boy who saves a family of swallows, and discover how Barney the horse forever changes the life of the girl who looks after him. From Michael Morpurgo, co-founder of the charity Farms for City Children, and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees, this charming story collection...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Description
THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS In 1943, Lily Treganza was living in a sleepy seaside village, scarcely touched by the war. But all that was soon to change? KASPAR Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bellboy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's things to her room, including this very special cat! THE BUTTERFLY LION When Bertie is a...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Description
SHADOW Aman and his mother live in war-torn Afghanistan. When a Western dog appears at the mouth of their cave, it soon becomes Aman?s constant companion, his shadow as he calls her. But life is becoming increasingly dangerous for Aman and his family? COOL! Michael Morpurgo?s inspiring new story of Robbie, a boy in a coma - victim of a car accident. Locked inside his own head, able to hear but not move or speak, Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2021
Description
This first new novel in two years from the Nation's Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue - an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two... Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors' home in Ithaca, and discovers - through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish - the extraordinary story of her great-aunt Elena; of how she fell in love, in the hardest of times,...
16) The dancing bear
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Description
High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear?.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Something's up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it's all anyone talks about. It's like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we'll ever see the sun again." It's 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the 'townie' evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, Lily and her...
18) Lucky button
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Publisher
Walker Bks
Description
A lonely boy struggles with school bullies and caring for his mother, until he finds a strange button which connects him to the ghost of a man who was a foundling in 18th century England.
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
This is the story of Thomas ?Tommo? Peaceful, a young soldier who finds himself in Belgium, in the trenches of the First World War, with his brother Charlie. It is also the story of Tommo?s life, growing up in Devon with his brothers, and of his love for Molly, the beautiful girl he met on his first day at school. As the story unfolds, from past to present, so approaches the hour when Tommo and Charlie will be separated for ever. The horrors of the...