Juvenile/Middle School Fiction
G/A Boyne,
John. Stay Where You Are and Then
Leave. Henry Holt, 2014. 245p.
978-1-62779-031-4. 16.99
World War I started on Alfie's 5th birthday and
the following day his Dad decides to volunteer, much to the dismay of his
family. When the letters stop coming and 4 years have passed, Alfie is told
that his father is on a secret mission, but Alfie thinks his father has died.
While Alfie spends his days secretly shining shoes at the train station he
discovers that his father is actually in England, only a few hours from home,
in a hospital suffering from shell shock. Alfie decides to rescue him. Some of
the English terms and content make it hard to imagine this book in the hands of
a child, but a middle school student with an historical fiction assignment
would enjoy it. Loren Spector, LAPL, Memorial Branch Library
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