Synopses & Reviews
George is fascinated by World War IIeven evacuation and rationing has got to be more exciting than living in dreary old Witchfield! He is looking forward to his school trip to Eden Camp, a World War II museum, but he never could have imagined how authentic this visit to wartime Britain will be. A hand reaching out of the fake rubble, a slip in time, and George has to survive something much worse than boredom. The rubble is now realhe has slipped through time into 1940s London. Imagine being alive before your parents were even born!
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"Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary youre afraid to turn the page." —Young Telegraph
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"[Readers] are given a realistic look at survival in 1940s London and the hardships of living through war." —School Library Journal
Synopsis
Time slips back to the London Blitz in World War II
George is fascinated by World War II; bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to the war museum leads to a timeslip -- and George is in London at the time of the Blitz.
About the Author
Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold, a teenage novel about a serial killer.