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The Silver Donkey
By Hartnett, Sonya
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76362-937-3
- Publisher
- Candlewick
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2006
Gr 4-6 A lieutenant walks away from a battle in France during World War I. Tired of the fighting and unable to see, he wants to return home to England. Two French sisters living near the English Channel find him and provide him with food and other supplies. The girls quickly realize that caring for the soldier is more than they can ha...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2006
Add another perspective to war's toll on such innocents as Morpurgo's Private Peaceful (rev. 11/04). Coco, eight, and Marcelle, ten, discover Lieutenant Shepard near their French village, bring him food, and eventually help smuggle the young Englishman home across the channel; as a World War I deserter, he would have been sentenced to death. Shepard had enlisted in expectation of glory, only to have his own men find him ridiculous. Still, he won their affection by caring for their needs and watched, di...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
