On Rough Seas
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: April 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780618897438
Subjects: Historical - Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction; Dover; Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940; England; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
Description: In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.