The Burning Summer
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Ruthie Lee is eight and England is at war. Ruthie spends the summer in the hot dustry streets and warm companionship of London's East End Jewish community. Ruthie's father has deserted from the army, and there is no money coming in ... but to a child, summer in wartime is a magical time. There are barrage balloons like silver fishes in the sky, the growling crump of the guns, the hot kerbstone to sit on during the sunny afternoons, and Mrs Cohen's shop full of lockshen and cream cheese. Then Ruthie gets caught in an air-raid a long way from the safety of the shelter under her house. And she begins to see why the grown-ups are so frightened of war: Ruthie begins to grow up herself.
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