Blackout

by Robert Swindells

Overview

Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.

Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is still rationing and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409025603
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication date:	01/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	412 KB
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Swindells’ novel shows the excitement of the war at home." —Booklist

"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

"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

EBOOK COMMENTARY

"Swindells’ novel shows the excitement of the war at home." —Booklist



"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



"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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