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Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.
Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is still rationing and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too . . .
Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is still rationing and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too . . .
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March 1, 2012
Blackout by robert swindells in loosely based upon the poem of Hamelin, in which a village loses its children to a rat-catcher named the pied piper.Tom, Mary, Gary and Dil are the 4 main characters in this magnificent book.Tom and Mary's parents are the innkeepers at the 'Ty Coch', and have many peculiar visitors.When the four children her about the most recent guest, Jean Harlowe, they are shocked to find out that she proposed a toast to The Fuhrer*, who in this case is Hitler.
* means Boss or Captain.
About the author
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
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