The Sky Is Falling
Published on 4. September 2007
256 pages
978-0-14-318632-8 (ISBN)
Description
It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler's army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downstairs.
Then Norah is told that she and her brother, Gavin, are being sent to Canada. The voyage across the ocean is exciting, but at the end of it Norah is miserable. The rich woman who takes them in prefers Gavin to her, the children at school taunt her, and as the news from England becomes worse, she longs for home.
As Norah begins to make friends, she discovers a surprising responsibility that helps her to accept her new country.
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Kit Pearson worked as a librarian for many years before publishing her first novel, The Daring Game (1986). She went on to write the linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989),Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go On Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the Governor General's Award. Pearson lives in Victoria, close to Ross Bay Cemetery, one of the settings in Awake and Dreaming.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Introduction by Sarah Ellis
- Part One
- 1. The Plane
- 2. The Skywatchers
- 3. Little Whitebull
- 4. "I Won't Go!"
- 5. Too Many Goodbyes
- 6. "Are We Downhearted?"
- 7. The Voyage
- 8. Guests of War
- 9. Alenoushka
- Part Two
- 10. The Ogilvies
- 11. Monday
- 12. "Now in School and Liking It"
- 13. Misery Upon Misery
- 14. Bernard
- 15. News from England
- 16. Gairloch
- 17. Paige
- 18. The Witches Are Out
- 19. Gavin
- Part Three
- 20. Beginning Again
- 21. Tidings of Comfort
- Afterword
- Contents
- Author File
- Who's Who in The Sky Is Falling
- Some Things to Think About .
- Some Things to Do .
- Glossary
- Copyright
