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Back Home
Michelle Magorian
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Description for Back Home
Paperback. 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. Series: A Puffin Book. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 139 x 201 x 36. Weight in Grams: 434.
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book, all with exciting new covers and endnotes with author profile, interesting facts around the story and archive material. In Back Home, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mister Tom, tells the story of Rusty, returning to England after being evacuated to America for five years in the Second World War. After five happy years in America, Rusty must return to England: the place she used to call home. But it doesn't fell ... Read more
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book, all with exciting new covers and endnotes with author profile, interesting facts around the story and archive material. In Back Home, Michelle Magorian, author of Goodnight Mister Tom, tells the story of Rusty, returning to England after being evacuated to America for five years in the Second World War. After five happy years in America, Rusty must return to England: the place she used to call home. But it doesn't fell ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
A Puffin Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141354811
SKU
V9780141354811
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Michelle Magorian
Michelle Magorian was born in Portsmouth and on leaving school studied at the Rose Bruford College of speech and Drama and Marcel Marceau's International School of Mime in Paris. Over the years she became interested in children's books and decided to write one herself. The result was Goodnight Mister Tom, which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, an International Reading ... Read more
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