When a German plane that 11 year old Tom Mullen is unable to identify crash lands in a nearby field to his home in the small Kent village of High Halden, he is eager to find out more. Arriving at the site, he sees the solitary pilot being taken away by soldiers of the Home Guard but then sees a young boy climb out from a hatch on the side of the aircraft and run towards a nearby wood. Tom gives chase only to discover the boy is also German and after finding out his name is Kristian Muller,and speaks a little English, he has to protect him, even if it means having to lie to his two friends, Matthew and Beth whose both fathers are away fighting in the war.
After hiding him in the barn and disguising him to look more ‘British’, Tom decides to pretend Kristian is an evacuee staying at his family’s farm and Is unable to speak due to being in shock after a trauma of losing both parents in the London Blitz but an incident while inside the schoolhouse shelter during an air raid suddenly raises suspicions with both the teacher and the children about the ‘new boy’.
Meanwhile, a German spy is in the area collecting information on the temporary airfields being set up for D-Day of which Tom has made friends with one of the mechanics, exchanging eggs for chocolate, and nylons for his mother. The agent is using a local safe house.to send secret messages back to Germany. With a team of spy hunters on the trail which includes Tom’s sister’s boyfriend, Alex, as well as the father of his school nemesis, he realises Kristian could soon be in danger and has to do what he can to get this boy back home.
Blitz Boy is a heartwarming tale of forbidden friendship in time of war and happily sits alongside classics such as Carrie’s War, The Machine Gunners, Johnny and the Bomb and Friend or Foe.
Genre: Children's Fiction
After hiding him in the barn and disguising him to look more ‘British’, Tom decides to pretend Kristian is an evacuee staying at his family’s farm and Is unable to speak due to being in shock after a trauma of losing both parents in the London Blitz but an incident while inside the schoolhouse shelter during an air raid suddenly raises suspicions with both the teacher and the children about the ‘new boy’.
Meanwhile, a German spy is in the area collecting information on the temporary airfields being set up for D-Day of which Tom has made friends with one of the mechanics, exchanging eggs for chocolate, and nylons for his mother. The agent is using a local safe house.to send secret messages back to Germany. With a team of spy hunters on the trail which includes Tom’s sister’s boyfriend, Alex, as well as the father of his school nemesis, he realises Kristian could soon be in danger and has to do what he can to get this boy back home.
Blitz Boy is a heartwarming tale of forbidden friendship in time of war and happily sits alongside classics such as Carrie’s War, The Machine Gunners, Johnny and the Bomb and Friend or Foe.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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