Evacuation: Recommended Reading

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• Introduction for Teachers: The Second World War Experience Centre
• Scheme of work for History Key Stage 2
• Evacuation: an Introduction
• Timeline
• Evacuees' Experiences
• Recommended Reading

Fiction

When the Siren Wailed - Noel Streatfield, Collins, 1974

Friend or Foe - Michael Morpurgo, Egmont, 1977

Keeping Henry - Nina Bawden, Puffin, 1988

Carrie’s War - Nina Bawden, Puffin, 1973

Going Back - Penelope Lively, Mammoth, 1975

Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian, Penguin, 1981

Lizzy’s War - Elizabeth Beresford, McDonald, 1994

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr, Collins, 1971

Tom’s War Patrol - Robert Leeson, Puffin, 2001

The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier, Puffin, 2003

War Boy - Michael Foreman, Puffin, 1989

Non-Fiction

Evacuees: Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939 - 1945
Mike Brown, Published by Sutton

The Great Exodus: the evacuation of Leeds schoolchildren 1939 - 1945
Roy C. Boud, Published by The Thoresby Society

Britain at War. Evacuation (The History Detective Investigates)
Martin Parsons, Published by Hodder Wayland (1999)

Atlantic Ordeal - The Story of Mary Cornish
Elspeth Huxley, Published by Chatto and Windus (1941)

Horrible Histories - The Blitzed Brits
Terry Deary Published by Hippo (1994)

A Day In the Life of A World War II Evacuee
Alan Childs, Published by Hodder Wayland (1999)

The Home Front - Evacuation
Fiona Reynoldson, Published by Hodder Wayland (1990)

Ourselves in Wartime
Various Authors, Published by Odhams Press Ltd