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Shrapnel

By Swindells, Robert E.

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It is the height of World War II. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting, and Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family: Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War I, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War II—he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some "packages." But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible consequences?

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978-0-55255-930-0
Publisher
Transworld Publishers


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Reviewed on March 1, 2010

Gr 5-9 It's 1941, there's a war on in England, and Gordon, 13, wishes he could fly Spitfires. His dad's an engineer at Beresford's factorya "reserved occupation" that can't be called up. His brother, Raymond, had also worked there, but he's just quit and moved out. In short chapters of confiding first-person narrative, readers learn that life is made up of shelter drills, window blackouts, rations, bully taunts about shirkers, and air raids, blasts,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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