READER REVIEWS

This book is a book like no other! This book has links to history but is also very interesting. It takes us on an adventure to the remote island of Lindisfarne. Anyone who reads it can learn a lot about how war damages people’s lives unintentionally. Even people who don’t fight are hurt because members of their family or friends can be injured in the war. War affected everyone, at home and away.

In this book, an Army Cadets unit is set up in the school and some of the children are against it so they protest because they are pacifists. Some children are for the war and they are angry at the people who are against it, so they start bullying them.

The main character, Olivia, is in a very complicated situation as her mum is a pacifist but her grandfather is a military man so of course he agrees