Stay Where You Are and Then Leave, Paperback
Descriere
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight--but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realizes his father is in a hospital close by--a hospital treating soldiers with shell shock. Alfie isn't sure what shell shock is, but he is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place. . . .in John Boyne's Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. This title has Common Core connections.
Despre autor
John Boyne este un romancier și scriitor irlandez. Este autorul a șaisprezece romane pentru adulți, șase romane pentru cititori mai tineri, două nuvele și o colecție de povestiri scurte. Romanul istoric al lui Boyne, Băiatul cu pijamale în dungi (2006), a primit aprecieri critice și a fost adaptat într-un film dramatic cu același nume în 2008.
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