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1 author picked Johnathan as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because of Johnathan’s fighting spirit.
Many war stories are about the fighting – the soldiers’ stories. This story is about the thoughts and life of a boy who was a child at the start of World War ll. He tells of how his father goes off to war. He suffers through the blitz and losing his home. He is forced to live with other relatives, and eventually to go away from his family to another part of the country.
It is interesting reading about a boy’s understanding and confusion about catastrophic events, and how these events…
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