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After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.Tags
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Excellent! real true to life feel of Britain during WWII. Kids get a machine gun from a wrecked plane and set up a bunker with it. Good for Morpurgo readers.
Sympathetic tale of group of children who arm themselves with a German machine gun and prepare to take on the invading German army. Interesting tale of growing up during WW2.
If you like the box car children you will like the story. The children have the us against the adults adventure. After a air raid a group of english children hide a german machine gun from adults who are looking for it.
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Author Information
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Machine Gunners
- Original publication date
- 1975
- People/Characters
- Chas McGill; Cemetery Jones; Audrey Parton; Clogger; Nicky; Carrot-juice (show all 7); Rudi Garlath
- Important places
- Garmouth, Tyne and Wear, England, UK (fictional | based on Tynemouth)
- Important events
- World War II; The Blitz
- Dedication
- To Christopher Westall, his book.
- First words
- When Chas awakened, the air-raid shelter was silent.
- Quotations
- Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no peashooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Get stuffed," he said.
- Blurbers
- Chambers, Aidan
Classifications
- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .W51953 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 612
- Popularity
- 47,447
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.90)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 29
- ASINs
- 7
