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THE EVACUEE CHRISTMAS
By: Katie King
HarperCollins
October 2017
On Sale: October 19, 2017
Featuring: Barbara Ross; Jessie Ross; Connie Ross
250 pages
ISBN: 000825754X
EAN: 9780008257552
Kindle: B06Y1PVLNK
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Young Adult | Women's Fiction Historical | Holiday
A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first Christmas of World War Two. Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that sheβs a brave girl and can look after her twin brother, Jessie. She wonβt cry, not while anyoneβs watching. In the crisp Yorkshire Dales, Connie and Jessie are billeted to a rambling vicarage. Kindly but chaotic, Reverend Braithwaite is determined to keep his London charges on the straight and narrow, but the twins soon find adventures of their own. As autumn turns to winter, Connieβs dearest wish is that war will end and they will be home for Christmas. But this Christmas Eve there will be an unexpected arrivalβ¦
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