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1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| Summary |
Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking near their home. Who is he, and why does he think Joan can help him? Even more unsettling, as the Blitz worsens, Joan and her friends make a discovery down by the old mill that will tear the whole community apart. In the hardship of war, everything seems to be rationed except true friendship. |
| Audience |
890 Lexile. |
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890L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.9 6 191931 |
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Accelerated Reader MG 5.9 6 191931 |
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Enduring the terror and shortages caused by the Blitz in 1940 Liverpool, thirteen-year-old Joan is unable to spend time with her friends in the face of intensifying bombing raids and makes a shattering discovery about a stranger and a local mill. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Liverpool -- Juvenile fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Liverpool -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- England -- Liverpool -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teenage girls -- England -- Liverpool -- Juvenile fiction.
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Female friendship -- England -- Liverpool -- Juvenile fiction.
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Military deserters -- Juvenile fiction.
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War stories.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Friends and associates -- Fiction.
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Military deserters -- Fiction.
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Children. |
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Female friendship. |
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Military deserters. |
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Teenage girls. |
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War stories. |
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Liverpool (England) -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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England -- Liverpool. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hughes, Shirley, 1927- Whistling in the dark London : Walker Books, 2015 9781406360295 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hughes, Shirley, 1927- Whistling in the dark Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017 9780763690724 (NjBwBT)bl2017045844 (OCoLC)973541983 |
| ISBN |
9780763697754 : $16.99 |
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0763697753 : $16.99 |
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