Yesterday, I reviewed Ruth Eastham’s second novel, The Messenger Bird (you can find my review here). Today, I am very pleased to welcome Ruth Eastham to Library Mice as part of her blog tour. Ruth Eastham was born in Lancashire, England, and trained as a teacher in Cambridge. She has since worked in more than a …
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World War II
The Messenger Bird
Ruth Eastham (Scholastic) When Nathan’s father is arrested suddenly, accused selling confidential information from the Ministry of Defence, he gives Nathan a message which leads him to a riddle, written in 1940 by a Bletchley Park code-breaker named Lily Wilson. Within days, things take a turn for the worst and Nathan’s dad is charged for breaking the Official Secrets Act. But how …
Time Train to the Blitz
Sophie McKenzie(Usborne) When Joe, Scarlett and their dog Pippy come aboard the mysterious luminous train that has appeared, out of nowhere, in the middle of the park, they are not sure where it will take them. They certainly do not expect to go back in time, but soon find themselves amidst an air raid in 1941 London. It …
Annexed
Sharon Dogar(Andersen Press) Everyone knows Anne Frank’s story, her life hidden at the top of those stairs in Amsterdam, and her untimely death. 31 million copies of her diary, which is translated in 67 languages, have been sold across the world. So we know the story, HER side of the story. But the Franks were …
Ausländer
Paul Dowswell(Bloomsbury) Peter (Piotr, as he is known at the beginning of the book) is a Polish orphan of German descent. His parents were killed during the first day of the Soviet invasion of Poland and he has been living in squalor in a Polish orphanage ever since. But when Nazis come in to the …