Out of the Rubble

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It’s early 1945, war is nearly over and evacuees are coming home. Judy is excited to be back in London, but things have changed. Her house has been destroyed, her mum is distant and there are bombsites all around. As Judy explores, she finds that the bombsites are more than just rubble. Can they help her to remember what her home used to be like?

Sally Nicholls has published nearly twenty books for children and young adults, and has won numerous awards, including the Waterstones Children’s Books Prize and the IBW Children’s Book of the Year. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie, the Costa and the Guardian’s Children’s Book Prize. Sally now lives in a crazy old house in Liverpool with her husband and two children.