Michael Morpurgo
1) War horse
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For years Joey was a war horse, pulling ambulance carts and artillery through the battlefields of World War I. Finally he returned to Albert and the farm. Now, decades later, Albert's son loves to tell his own grandson stories about the remarkable horse, including its feats in the war and of the time the family risked everything betting that Joey could win a daring race.
3) Beowulf
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A retelling in prose of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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ngland, 1940. Barney's home has been destroyed by bombing, and he and his mother are traveling to the countryside when German planes attack. Their train is forced to take shelter in a tunnel and there, in the darkness, a stranger- a fellow passenger-begins to tell them a story about two young soldiers who came face to face in the previous war. One British, one German. Both lived, but the British soldier was haunted by the encounter once he realized...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World War II, Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos. There are lots of things he doesn't understand-but he does know how to heal animals, how to talk to them; the flamingos especially. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother. It's there he meets Kezia, a Roma girl, who helps her parents run their carousel-and who shows him how to ride the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Gepetto's workshop up leaps irrepressible Pinocchio, a wooden boy intent on haveing the most fabulous adventures! Journey with Pinocchio to lands afar, join the Greatest Puppet Show in the World, meet the dastardly Lame Fox and the Blind Cat, and fall under the spell of the beautiful blue-haired Good Fairy. But beware the enticements of the Land of Toys...and never forget to heed the advice of a Talking Cricket!
9) War horse
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....