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Stay where you are & then leave

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From the author of the phenomenally bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes an unforgettable story of a boy's life changed by war, published to coincide with World War One's centenary. 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 realises his father is in a hospital close by -- a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

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Availability

19956

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Available

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Call Number

B

Publisher

London, United Kingdom : Puffin Books., 2018

Collation

254 pages : illustration ; 18 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780241352816

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NONE

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text

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Subject(s)

Fathers and sons
Soldiers
War stories
Historical fiction
Mental illness

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