Goodnight Mister Tom: Michelle Magorian (A Puffin Book)

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by Magorian, Michelle | Reading age: from c 12 years Published 06/05/2021 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom as part of the A Puffin Book series Hardback | 400 pages With World War Two raging all around, young children are being sent from their homes in the city to the countryside for safety. Condition: Fine. The tales he had heard about evacuees didn't seem to fit Willie. 'Ungrateful' and 'wild' were the adjectives he had heard used, or just plain 'homesick'. Tom tucked a blanket round him, drew up a chair by the fire and watched Willie fall asleep. Brought up in terrible poverty, Willie is terribly shy, and totally unprepared for village life - but the gruff-but-gentle 'Mister Tom' quickly takes him under his wing. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London. Neither he nor Willie could ever have predicted the journey they will go on together - nor the unbreakable bond that will be formed.