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The sky is falling

by Kit Pearson · 1989

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In the summer of 1940 as the war in Europe begins to intensify, a reluctant ten-year-old Norah and her five-year-old brother Gavin are sent by their parents to safety in Canada where to Norah's dismay they are taken in by the rich Ogilvie family.

Brothers and sistersJuvenile fictionFictionEvacuation of civiliansCanadian fictionWorld War, 1939-1945HomesicknessChildren's fictionWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionGreat britain, fictionCanada, history, fictionAdventure and adventurers, fiction