Keeping secrets
By: Jean Booker
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781443102346
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Children's secrets; Juvenile fiction
Work titles: Ellen's secret
Description: Ellen has secrets to keep - pretty ordinary ones. But she's not living in ordinary times. World War II has brought food rationing, air raids and blackout curtains to her close-knit community in northern England. Her dad gets injured in a raid and a German airplane crashes in a nearby field. Then a bomb leaves Ellen trapped in a collapsed building and she suddenly has an extraordinary secret to keep. What would the neighbors do if they knew? Can Ellen betray someone how has become a friend?
Notes: Originally publ.: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic Canada, c1994, under title: Ellen's secret.