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The Prisoner

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Tom and Iris watch the enemy aircraft coming down towards the trees and make up their minds to go hunting for souvenirs.

But they find more than they bargained for: the injured pilot. And then the air-raid warning sounds and they all have to take shelter.

While the two English children and the teenage German pilot are confined together, with bombs falling all around them, Tom and Iris listen to Martin's story...James Riordan's first novel "Sweet Clarinet" was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and won the Nasen Specisl Education Needs Award.

James Riordan has earned a reputation for writing about war in a powerful and uncompromising way.

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Product Details
Oxford University Press
019275307X / 9780192753076
Paperback / softback
823.914
01/05/2004
United Kingdom
English
108
20 cm
general Learn More
Quiz No: 203873, Points 4.00, Book Level 5.80,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1999.
A moving story of two children learning about the harsh reality of war
A moving story of two children learning about the harsh reality of war 5AK Interest age: from c 9 years, YFC Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)