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Shoes for Anthony

Shoes for Anthony

Author(s): Emma Kennedy

Location(s): Wales

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): WW2

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As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted.

When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF – Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about…

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A close knit mining community in the hills of Wales is going through WW2. This is a joy to read.

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