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The day the world stopped turning

Michael Morpurgo's The Day the World Stopped Turning is a middle-grade novel about an extraordinary boy who sees the world differently. In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World War II, Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos. There are lots of things he doesn&#...

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Main Author: Morpurgo, Michael (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2019.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > England > Juvenile fiction.
Autistic children > Juvenile fiction.
Human-animal communication > Juvenile fiction.
Soldiers > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Romanies > Juvenile fiction.
Hope > Juvenile fiction.
Flamingos > Juvenile fiction.
Camargue (France) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
War fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary: Michael Morpurgo's The Day the World Stopped Turning is a middle-grade novel about an extraordinary boy who sees the world differently. In the unique landscape of the Camargue (France) during World War II, Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos. There are lots of things he doesn't understand-but he does know how to heal animals, how to talk to them; the flamingos especially. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother. It's there he meets Kezia, a Roma girl, who helps her parents run their carousel-and who shows him how to ride the wooden horse as the music plays. But then the German soldiers come, with their guns. Everything is threatened, everything is falling apart: the carousel, Kezia and her family, even Lorenzo's beloved flamingos. Yet there are kind people even among soldiers, and there is always hope. . .
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ISBN: 9781250107084
Author Notes: British author Michael Morpurgo was born in St. Albans, Hertforshire in 1943. He attended the University of London and studied English and French. He became a primary school teacher in Kent for about ten years. He and his wife Clare started a charity called Farms for City Children. They currently own three farms where over 2000 children a year stay for a week and experience the countryside by taking part in purposeful farmwork.

He has published over 100 books and several screenplays. He won the 1995 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, the 1996 Nestle Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion, and the 2000 Children's Book Award for Kensuke's Kingdom. Private Peaceful won the 2005 Red House Children's Book Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Five of his books have been made into movies and two have been adapted for television. He was named as the third Children's Laureate in May 2003.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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