SYNOPSIS NOVEL 10
This story takes place in London in 1940. Edie Benson the protagonist notices that numerous people that she knows move in the country-side as the war is about to star but then all come back. Edie heard some people talking about a possible German invasion. Edison and her family have just finished their Anderson Shelter when a bombing starts from the Germans on London. (An Anderson Shelter looks like a gallerie that could hold up to 6 people to protect them from the bombings.) Edie's brother and especially Edie need their parents but unfortunately Edie and her brother are sent in Whales to Mr. And Mrs. James which were not nice to Edie and Tom. Edie doesn't have only a brother (Tom) but also a sister : Shirley. Tom is 10 Edie is 12 and Shirley is 17. Albert or Bert, Edie's father, went almost every night out of the shelter to save people that were under walls of collapsed buildings. In the end Edie and Tom came back with their parents. This book is very well written. It is very realistic about how bad was war and that not everybody was as lucky as Edie and Tom to survive with their whole family!