Waiting for Anya - Michael Morpurgo

...loving it, a friend thrust Waiting for Anya into my grubby mitts and forced me to read it. I thank her. Jo lives in a small French village near the Spanish border. Life is hard while his father is away at war, as are all the able-bodied men of the village, and yet the war doesn't appear to otherwise affect the town, which plods on its merry way. The shepherding duties are still to be done, and they are down to 12-year-old Jo and his grandfather, ...
...To Kill A Mockingbird. Waiting for Anya is told in very straightforward language, in the third person. It reads smoothly and paces itself beautifully between the internal wonderings of Jo, a boy who feels keenly all the adolescent angst of relations with friends and family and is now forced to reconcile these into the context of wartime, and the thrilling, heart-stopping tale of Benjamin and his lost tribe. I feel it is no accident that there are ...

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