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A Medal for Leroy

A Medal for Leroy

by Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman
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About this book

Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army, this is a stunning new novel of identity and loss by Michael Morpurgo, biggest UK children's author and the bestselling, award-winning writer of War Horse, now a smash West End and Broadway hit as well as an Oscar-nominated movie. Michael doesn't remember his father, an RAF pilot lost in the war. And his French mother, heartbroken and passionate, doesn't like to talk about her husband. But then Auntie Snowdrop gives Michael a medal, followed by a photograph, which begin to reveal a hidden history. A story of love and loss. A story that will change everything - and reveal to Michael who he really is...

Book Details

ISBN13 9780007487516
ISBN10 0007487517
Series/Work OL17863537W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Harper Collins Children's Books
Pages 222
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Children's fiction England, fiction Family, fiction Fatherless families Fiction Historical fiction Identity Juvenile fiction Matere samohranilke Racially mixed children Rasni odnosi Single-parent families Soldiers Svetovna vojna 1939-1945 V mladinskem leposlovju World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 World war, 1939-1945, fiction

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