Michael Morpurgo
21) Half a man
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows the experiences of a young man who after years of being told not to ask his World War II veteran grandfather about his injuries learns how his grandfather survived a torpedo attack on his ship.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While sitting on the riverbank in the ancient French city of Orleans, seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice, which relates the adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine Joan of Arc as she fights to free France by driving out the English.
24) Half A Man
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
47 PAGES ILLUS. $16.99. ILLUS: GEMMA O'CALLAGHAN. MICHAEL IS BOTH FASCINATED AND AFRAID OF HIS GRANDFATHER. HE IS VERY DISFIGURED FROM BURNS. THEN THE SUMMER SPENT ON THE ISLES OF SCILLY, OFF THE COAST OF CORNWELL, ENABLES MICHAEL TO SEE THE MAN BEHIND THE BURNS AND GIVES HIM THE POWER TO HEAL WOUNDS THAT HAVE LONG DIVIDED HIS FAMILY. DN
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Full of friendship and adventure, these three uplifting stories capture the wonder, muck and magic of a city child's week on the farm. Join in the daring rescue of a lost lamb, meet a boy who saves a family of swallows and discover how Barney the horse forever changes the life of the girl who looks after him." -- Amazon.
28) War Horse
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
32) War horse
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
33) Private peaceful
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The story of the unbreakable bond between two brothers from their childhood in rural Devon to the battlefields of the First World War. When young Tommo Peaceful ... volunteers to fight, his protective older brother Charles ... follows him to Flanders. But it is here that both experience the brutal nature of war, far removed from family life and their rivalry for the love of Molly Monks"--Container.
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