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Alone on a Wide Wide SeaMichael Morpurgo
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
by Michael Morpurgo
Shipped to Australia as an orphan after the war, Arthur works an outback farm, and fifty years later his daughter sails home to find where he came from.
A story about children and a grown-up hero, moving and adventurous in tone. We would put it with children of 11–13, and at a reading age of about 11 for reading alone.
Worth knowing before you buy
- Cruel adults
- A death or grief
- Separated from family
None of this makes it a bad book — often the opposite. It is here so you can decide whether it is right for your child now or in a year or two.
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Chosen by matching age, reading age, tone and subject — not by what is selling.
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Or let them write their own.
Nothing gets a child reading like a story they invented themselves. Your child plans the characters and the plot, and we write, illustrate and print it as a real book with their name on the cover as the author.
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