num_pages: 256
description: In the summer of 1940 as the war in Europe begins to intensify, a reluctant ten-year-old Norah and her five-year-old brother Gavin are sent by their parents to safety in Canada where to Norah's dismay they are taken in by the rich Ogilvie family.
language: English
title: The Sky Is Falling
titlecomplete: The Sky Is Falling
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canadian Literature, Canada, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 3723
series: Guests of War
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Vlag en Wimpel Griffeljury, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
publisher: Viking Juvenile