When we were young & brave : a novel / Hazel Gaynor.

By:

Gaynor, Hazel

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : William Morrow, [2020]Copyright date: �2020Edition: First editionDescription: 422, 12 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0063034832 (hc)
9780063034839 (hc)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

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Summary: China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC Gayno (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		27753

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China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear.

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