Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Super 6 (guided reading set) - Play

Number of parts: 29

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 7-11

Notes: Britain is at war, and the Chivers' youngest children have to leave their parents to live in the countryside. They are delighted to be brought back home when it looks as though the Germans aren't going to invade after all. But the air-raid siren goes off and this time it's frighteningly real….... This dramatic and touching story is set in Manchester between 1939 and 1941.