Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.
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 for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
""Gripping. . . Swindells deftly explains the atmosphere of
war-torn London . . . without bogging down the pace of the book.. .
. well worth reading." "Publishers Weekly" on" Shrapnel"
""Swindells paints the home front like a play, in page-turning but
atmospheric scenes full of details of everyday life and secondary
characters that rise, well-rounded, from spare, believable
dialogue." "School Library Journal "on "Shrapnel"
"Swindells novel shows the excitement of the war at home."
Booklist"
"Swindells' novel shows the excitement of the war at home."
--Booklist
""Gripping . . . Swindells deftly explains the atmosphere of
war-torn London . . . without bogging down the pace of the book. .
. . well worth reading." --"Publishers Weekly" on" Shrapnel
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