Morpurgo, Michael

Jo has spent most of the war waiting and praying-waiting for the war to end and praying for the end to come quickly. Living in Lescun, France, Jo had thought he might escape the worst of the war. But things change when the Germans decide to set up an outpost right in town. Jo alone knows of another outpost-a reclusive widow's farm high in the hills.It is an escape point for growing band of Jewish children.

As a young boy, Michael is told not to stare at his grandfather, disfigured in World War II. When Michael spends summers with him in the Scilly Isles, he gets to know the man behind the scars.

Teenager Aman and his mother lose their loyal spaniel Shadow while escaping Afghanistan to flee to England, and they must depend on a friend and his grandfather to enable Shadow's return.

In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.

Tells the story of Merry, who was traveling on the ship Lusitania to visit her father who is recovering from a war injury, and Alfie, who finds her on an uninhabited island after the ship sinks.

Follows the adventures of an extraordinary pair on the run: an escaped circus monkey and an ostracized young English boy named Harry.

A young thief sent to a working prison for a year is assigned to help clean out the local stables, and when the stable manager sees how well he works with the animals, the boy is asked to tame a violent horse called Dombey.

Contains three animal tales featuring a heroic donkey, some wise birds, and a half-starved dog in need of rescue.