Cover of Back Home

Back Home

Rusty Dickinson was sent to the United States from England at the age of seven in 1940 to survive the war. When she returns in 1945, she finds a country and a family she neither understands nor likes, and vice versa.

Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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