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Thursday 6 September 2012

Four new titles by Michael Morpurgo

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

There were dozens of us on the ship, boys and girls. We were off to Australia, but it might as well have been the moon. Orphaned in WW2, Arthur is separated from his sister and sent to the other side of the world. (Back cover)



The Dancing Bear

High in the mountains, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable - happy and safe, until the arrival of a glamourous film crew who need a dancing bear...(Back cover)


Billy the Kid 
                 

The only thing Billy ever wanted was to play for Chelsea. Finally his dream came true when he was picked for the team. But that was 1939, and the Second World War was about to start, changing Billy's life - and everyone else's - forever. (Back cover)


Farm Boy


The sequel to War Horse and told by the grandson. Joey was the last working horse on the farm, and the apple of Grandpa’s eye. In War Horse, Joey was sent away from the farm to be a warhorse in WWI. Grandpa had joined the cavalry in order to find, and fight, with Joey. Farm Boy brings us forward fifty years with Grandpa not only telling his grandson, Joey’s story but also a ‘shameful secret’ which he has held for years – Grandpa has never learned to read and write. (Source: www.amazon.co.uk)

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