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Summer of the Zeppelin

by Elsie McCutcheon · 1983

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During the summer of 1918, with her father fighting in Germany and her stepmother perpetually irritable and critical, twelve-year-old Elvira decides to go live with an orphaned friend in an abandoned house and wait out the war.

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World War IWorld War IMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisruralruralMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 168 pages

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