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2019.
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In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
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* Newbery Honor Book
* #1 New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
* Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection
* Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of the Year selection
* New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing selection
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War...
* #1 New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
* Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection
* Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of the Year selection
* New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing selection
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War...
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
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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.
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
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Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.
8) Primrose day
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
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During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.
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Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
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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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Pub. Date
2023.
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Traza el efecto dominó de la guerra y la inmigración en dos niños: Samuel, de cinco años, cuya madre lo mete en un tren Kindertransport desde la Austria ocupada por los nazis a Inglaterra en 1938, y Anita, de siete años, que aborda otro tren ocho décadas más tarde a los EE.UU., donde se separa de su madre.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train...
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