num_pages: 480
description: WW2 has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family. Rusty is sent to a horrific boarding school, before finally running away as her search for happiness becomes more and more desperate.
language: English
title: Back Home
titlecomplete: Back Home
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, British Literature, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Boarding School, World War II
ratings_count: 2481
places: England, Devon, England
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers
publisher: Gardners Books