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Violence
Some
WWII violence; danger from German forces; some deaths
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of responsibility for children in a war zone; the ingenuity of a civilian trying to do what soldiers cannot
What this book is about
John Howard, a retired lawyer on a quiet fishing holiday in France, gets caught by the German invasion of France in 1940—and finds himself responsible for getting a group of refugee children across the border to safety. Nevil Shute's WWII novel is quietly tense and deeply moving.
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