In Back Home, Michelle Magorian, author of the bestselller Goodnight Mister Tom, tells the powerful and unforgettable story of Rusty, returning to England after being evacuated to America for five years in the Second World War. After five happy years in America, Rusty must return to England: the place she used to call home....

A beautiful hardback edition of Michelle Magorian\"s bestselling novel Goodnight Mister Tom. This edition has a stunning Puffin \"cloth\" Classics cover design and gorgeous printed endpapers and is perfect for the family bookshelf. When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside....

Josh has a problem. There\"s a new little person in the house, his baby brother Charlie. It\"s supposed to be a happy thing - but he\"s proving to be a nightmare! When Charlie\"s not howling the place down, he\"s hogging all of Mum and Dad\"s time and attention. Josh is fed up. But can baby Charlie change his mind?...

Specially commissioned by Michael Morpurgo to mark the 60th anniversary of VE day, this deeply moving collection features stories of war from the most well-loved voices in children\"s literature, including Michelle Magorian, Celia Rees, George Layton, Robert Westall, Joan Aiken, Eva Ibbotson, Geraldine McCaughrean and other top children\"s authors....

London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech - the abused child of a single mother - is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even on Mr. Tom, the......

Tom tucked a blanket round him, drew up a chair by the fire and watched Willie fall asleep. The tales he had heard about evacuees didn\"t seem to fit Willie. \"Ungrateful\" and \"wild\" were the adjectives he had heard used, or just plain \"homesick\". He was quite unprepared for this timid, sickly little specimen. Britain, 1940....

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian won the Guardian Children\'s Fiction Award. Mum said war was a punishment from God for people\'s sins, so he\'d better watch out. She didn\'t tell him what to watch out for, though. When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside....

London is poised on the brink of World War 11. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech - the abused child of a single mother - is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in....

When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old Tom Oakley. But then his cruel mother summons him back to war-torn London . . . Will he ever see Mister Tom again?...

It\'s 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she\'s never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family....