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Stay where you are & then leave  Cover Image Book Book

Stay where you are & then leave / John Boyne ; with hand lettering by Oliver Jeffers.

Boyne, John, 1971- (author.). Jeffers, Oliver, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.

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  • ISBN: 9781627790314 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 1627790314 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: 245 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014, ©2013.
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 > England > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Mental illness > Juvenile fiction.
London (England) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain > History > George V, 1910-1936 > Juvenile fiction.


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