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Listen to the moon / Michael Morpurgo.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
JF MORP	Junior Fiction		Padstow .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780007339648 (paperback)
ISBN	000733964X (paperback)
Name	Morpurgo, Michael author.
Title	Listen to the moon / Michael Morpurgo.
Published	London HarperCollins Children's Books, 2014.
Description	443 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary	May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost...and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy. Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even - as some islanders suggest - a German spy...? Only one thing is for sure: she loves music and moonlight, and it is when she listens to the gramophone that the glimmers of the girl she once was begin to appear. WW1 is raging, suspicion and fear are growing, and Alfie and Lucy are ever more under threat. But as we begin to see the story of Merry, a girl boarding a great ship for a perilous journey across the ocean, another melody enters the great symphony - and the music begins to resolve...
Subjects	World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
	Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
	Isles of Scilly (England) -- Juvenile fiction
Genre	Children's stories
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Children's stories . Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction . Isles of Scilly (England) -- Juvenile fiction . World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction . See Also: Children's literature . Fairy tales . Fiction . Storytelling . Authors: Morpurgo, Michael .