Fly Away Home
$26.47
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2013
Summary
The award-winning, National Curriculum selected story of a little girl caught up in the Second World War.
“The story I’m going to tell is true. It happened to me. It is a tale of Gunpowdertown.”
Life for Cristal has been upside down for a long time. She can’t even remember a time before the war began. Before potatoes for every meal and bombs raining down from the sky. Before being forced to shelter in the dark, damp cellars. Then one day, Cristal’s home is turned into a pile o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099582854 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099582856 |
| Author: | Christine Nostlinger |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Children's Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2013 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 188mm |
| Audience Age: | 12-17 |
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Critics Review
A triumph, equally accessible to the ten year old and the adult reader
A triumph, equally accessible to the ten year old and the adult reader – Leon Garfield
The way a child sees the second world war through the small details of her life is movingly captured in a beautiful first-person story first published in the 70s * Guardian *
An engaging tale with ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstances * School Librarian *
Christine Nostlinger
Christine Nostlinger is an Austrian writer and one of the most popular writers in Europe today. Her books have been translated into many languages and a number of her books have been turned into films in Germany. She has won numerous awards including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2003. She is married and has two daughters.
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