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(0)Lissa Evans
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films--something that the men aren't very good at"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Crooked heart volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A precocious orphan evacuee and a debt-ridden widow con artist forge an unlikely alliance and take advantage ofunscrupulous money-making opportunities in the bombed suburbs of World War II England.
Author
Series
Crooked heart volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's late 1944. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fifteen now, to clothe and educate. When she witnesses an accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions are both unexpectedly marvelous and potentially disastrous. Because Vee is not actually the person she's pretending to be, and neither is Noel.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Moving away from everything familiar to live in a new house, ten-year-old Stuart Horten reluctantly befriends the annoying triplets next door and is swept up in a magical quest to find his great-uncle Tony, a famous magician who disappeared along with his fantastical workshop.
6) Their finest
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
During the bombing of London in World War II, a film crew puts together a movie to boost the country's morale and convince Americans to join the war.