An eagle in the snow / Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman.

By:

Morpurgo, Michael, 1943- [author,, editor.]

Contributor(s):

Foreman, Michael, 1938- [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2015.Description: 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780008134174
9780008134150
0008134154

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

War fiction.

Summary: The extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped World War Two. A beautiful moral thriller from one of the world's favourite storytellers. 1940. Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story. A story about Bobby Byron, the most decorated soldier of WW1, who once had the chance to end the war before it even began, and how he tried to fix his mistake. But sometimes the right thing is hard to see and even harder to live with.

List(s) this item appears in: Hāwera Reading Vine | Hāwera Reading Vine - Historical Fiction | Hāwera Reading Vine - War & Refugee Stories

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Fiction	Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Fiction	MORP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		I2158324

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The extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped World War Two. A beautiful moral thriller from one of the world's favourite storytellers. 1940. Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story. A story about Bobby Byron, the most decorated soldier of WW1, who once had the chance to end the war before it even began, and how he tried to fix his mistake. But sometimes the right thing is hard to see and even harder to live with.

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