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Moving Times trilogy: Grandmother's Footsteps: Book 2


Moving Times Trilogy

No. of pages 208

Published: 2011

Great for age 7-10 years

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Grandmother's Footstepsbegins on the day the Second World War ends, seen through the eyes of the bewildered young Ruth. Mesmerised and terrified by the break-up of the wartime world she is so used to, scared by her mother's disappearance to London in search of their absent father, she clings to the familiar world of her grandmother. Stick by me, Granny tells her, and you'll be all right. But already Ruth's exuberant mother has other plans for the family - a move to London and a succession of wild schemes that bring constant change and upheaval, opening and closing new horizons and leaving young Ruth feeling always - as the years go by - adrift. Except, that is, in the safe, sure haven of her grandmother's life.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Moving Times Trilogy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Hachette Children's Group .

RACHEL ANDERSON, author of numerous children's books, first introduced the character of Gabrielle in Little Angel Comes to Stay. She lives in England.

 

This book is in the following series:

Moving Times Trilogy

THE WAR ORPHAN

 

'a rare and truthful book'

* Books for your children *

 

an evocative picture of a girl growing up in difficult family circumstances * Carousel issue 15, Summer 2000 *

 

will intrigue young writers experimenting with different ways of arranging narrative * TES, 30th June 2000 *

 

even more enjoyable than Bloom of Youth * School Librarian, v.48, no.2, Summer 2000 *

 

Full of gentle humour...written with Rachel Anderson's tenderness which never dips into sentimentality. * School Librarian *

 

BLACKTHORN, WHITETHORN

 

'... there's a personal, original vision here ... involving and impressive'

* Philip Pullman, The Guardian *