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Flamingo boy / Michael Morpurgo.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
JF MORP	Junior Fiction		Campsie .	. On Loan .	12 Jul 2024

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ISBN	9780008134648 (paperback)
ISBN	9780008134631 (hardback)
Name	Morpurgo, Michael author.
Title	Flamingo boy / Michael Morpurgo.
Published	London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018.
Published	©2018
Description	287 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary	In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town. A soldier shoots a flamingo from the sky and it falls to earth terribly injured. And even worse is to come: the carousel is damaged, the horses broken. For this vulnerable boy, everything is falling apart. Only there's a kind sergeant among the Germans - a man with a young boy of his own at home, a man who trained as a carpenter. Between them, perhaps boy and man can mend what has been broken - and maybe even the whole town.
Target audience note	8+ years.
Reading Program Note	Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9.
Subjects	World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Juvenile fiction
	World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Juvenile fiction
	Autistic children -- Juvenile fiction
	Human-animal communication -- Juvenile fiction
	Soldiers -- Juvenile fiction
	Children's stories
	Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9
	Camargue (France) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genre	War fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Autistic children -- Juvenile fiction . Camargue (France) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction . Children's stories . Human-animal communication -- Juvenile fiction . Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 . Soldiers -- Juvenile fiction . War fiction . World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Juvenile fiction . World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Juvenile fiction . See Also: Children's literature . Fairy tales . Fiction . Storytelling . Authors: Morpurgo, Michael .

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