Digging for Victory

LoveReading4Kids Says

June 2023 Debut of the Month

Bonnie is digging for victory alright, planting seed potatoes, leeks, peas under the watchful eye of her mum and missing big brother Ralph, gone at 19 to be a hero in Two-Six-Six squadron.

With Ralph away, a lodger moves into his room, but who is Mr Fisher, and what’s his role? The other children at school are quick to decide he’s a conscientious objector and start picking on Bonnie too, guilty by association.

In fact, Mr Fisher is as much of a hero as Ralph, and recognises that smart, independent Bonnie has the makings of one as well. Cathy Faulkner has chosen to write this as a verse novel and the form is perfect for her story, which is full of surprises, bringing an immediacy and a freshness to descriptions of the home front and giving Bonnie a distinctive voice.

Andrea Reece

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