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Whistling in the dark

Hughes, Shirley, 1927- author

2017

Overview

Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking near their home. Who is he, and why does he think Joan can help him? Even more unsettling, as the Blitz worsens, Joan and her friends make a discovery down by the old mill that will tear the whole community apart. In the hardship of war, everything seems to be rationed except true friendship.

• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Subject: 1900-1999 / World War, 1939-1945 England Liverpool Juvenile fiction. / World War, 1939-1945 Children England Liverpool Juvenile fiction. / Teenage girls England Liverpool Juvenile fiction. / Female friendship England Liverpool Juvenile fiction. / Military deserters Juvenile fiction. / War stories. / World War, 1939-1945 England Liverpool Fiction. / Friendship Fiction. / Teenage girls Friends and associates Fiction. / Military deserters Fiction. / JUVENILE FICTION Action & Adventure Survival Stories. / JUVENILE FICTION Historical Military & Wars. / JUVENILE FICTION Social Themes Emigration & Immigration. / Children. / Female friendship. / Military deserters. / Teenage girls. / Liverpool (England) 20th century Juvenile fiction. / England Liverpool.
• ISBN: 0763690724, 9780763690724

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PZ7.H87395 WK 2017	1	BOOK	YOUNG