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by Geraldine McCaughrean (Author)
From award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Geraldine McCaughrean, an utterly immersive and unforgettable novel set during the London Blitz, inspired by the author's father
With World War II on their doorstep, the children of Greenwich, England, are being evacuated. But on the train meant to take them to safety, four of them decide they aren't ready to leave home. They climb out the carriage window just in time, forging an unlikely friendship.
Author Biography
Geraldine McCaughrean is the author of the Printz Award winner The White Darkness, the New York Times bestseller Peter Pan in Scarlet, and many other books for children and young adults, which have been translated into forty-five languages. She is a two-time winner of the Carnegie Medal. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband, John, and the lingering shades of all the characters she has invented in her books. Her cottage is under year-round siege from wild birds demanding to be fed. The ducks even knock on the door.
