Summer of the Zeppelin

by Elsie McCutcheon

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During the summer of 1918, with her father fighting in Germany and her stepmother perpetually irritable and critical, twelve-year-old Elvira decides to go live with an orphaned friend in an abandoned house and wait out the war.

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michi22 5 reviews

Sehr einfühlsames Kinderbuch, das das schwierige Thema Weltkrieg und Feindbild in einer Geschichte um Freundschaft, Abenteuer und Geheimnisse verpackt und für Kinder zugänglich macht.

Mar 22, 2011German

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