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Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tara begins her visit with Gran unhappy and bored, but when the man in the apartment downstairs allows others in the building to use his garden, she not only has a place to play, she learns what it was like to be a child during World War II. Includes facts about evacuees and victory gardens.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Historical Fiction - JF
Historical Fiction- MID/ JF
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Historical Fiction - JF
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Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was-damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. Who is she now? World War II rages on, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, move with their guardian, Susan, into a cottage with the iron-faced Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As World War II begins, London orphan Emmie is unhappy to be evacuated to an old mansion in the Yorkshire countryside until she starts discovering the secrets of the house--a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, and a very secret garden.
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