From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up - George, a typical teenager, picks on his sister, hangs out with friends, and terrorizes the old lady across the street by "creeping" across her backyard and destroying a fence. After fixing the fence and giving his friends a hard time for not helping, George becomes excited at the thought of doing a school project on World War II, a subject he loves. On a class field trip to Eden Camp, a museum dedicated to World War II, George reaches for a hand sticking out of fake rubble and ends up sliding through a time slip into 1940's London. He quickly realizes his precarious position, but survives by becoming a member of a gang of orphans hiding in the basement of a bombed out pub. Through his prior knowledge of the history he is actually living and the help of the gang's 14-year-old leader. George lives through air raids at night and spy hunting during the day. Eventually he returns to the present with a new insight into his neighbor's background. Christian Rodska does an excellent job of narrating the novel by British author Robert Swindells, giving each character a distinctive voice. Listeners will appreciate the author's use of short chapters, breaking the story down into scenes much like a play. The use of British slang may be slightly confusing at first for American audiences, but it doesn't interfere with understanding the story. Listeners are given a realistic look at survival in 1940s London and the hardships of living through war. A great addition to upper middle and high school as well as public library collections. -
Lisa D. Williams, Chocowinity Middle School, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Time slips back to the London Blitz in World War II
George is fascinated by World War II; bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to the war museum leads to a timeslip -- and George is in London at the time of the Blitz.
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