The lost orphans [Large print ed.]

Curzon, Ellie2025

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London, 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother Jack. Evacuated together, they escaped a cruel farming family only to find their home destroyed, their mother gone. Wide-eyed Elsie hasn't spoken since, and every night she cries for her mother, and for their father, lost at war. Wandering under the falling ash, their stomachs twist with hunger and Jack knows he cannot protect Elsie alone. But everything changes when they join a rag-tag band of orphans, runaway evacuees who've returned to the city just like them. With nothing left to lose, the children stay above ground as Nazi planes fly overhead, determined to help others. But as they risk their lives, who will protect them? Then during a night of terrible bombing, the unimaginable happens. Elsie disappears.