Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

Number of pages: 248

Reading age: 10 - 12 Interest level: 9 - 14

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.3 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

Notes: A moving and uplifting story of an ordinary boy's search for his missing father during the First World War.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.

Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with shell-shock. Alfie isn't sure what shell-shock is, but is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place…