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335 pp.
| HarperCollins |
November, 2015 |
PaperISBN 978-0-00-813235-4$8.99
(2)
4-6
It's 1940, and ten-year-old Lindy, along with her mother and boy cousin, is evacuated from London to the safety of the Canadian prairies. Banks herself was sent to Canada as a child during WWII; this memoir-like novel mines the war-evacuation material to reflect a child's cultural confusion, loneliness, and anxiety but also includes a more adult take on the experience of that relocation.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2015