Overview

A thrilling middle grade YA adventure from internationally bestselling children's author, Anna Woltz London, September 1940. Deep in the tunnels of the Underground, hidden from the bombs, four teenagers meet. Quinn is fifteen. She’s run away from home with a bag full of jewellery and a plan to change the world. Jay has lost everything, so nothing matters to him anymore. Sebastian is Quinn's big brother but to her he no longer exists. Fourteen-year-old Ella just feels invisible. Then the tunnel comes.

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'The Blitz is conveyed with such urgent realism, wonderful depth and great drama.' Anthony McGowan, author of Dogs of the Deadlands 'Woltz's achievement is significant.' Books for Keeps

'This captivating novel vividly describes the details of a wartime city. Best suited to older readers, it's a sometimes sad story of friendship and growing up.' The Week Junior Book of the Week 'The Blitz is conveyed with such urgent realism, wonderful depth and great drama.' Anthony McGowan, author of Dogs of the Deadlands 'Anyone interested in the Blitz will come away the wiser. But it's Woltz's ability to evoke the passions and pathos of a teenage girl that makes this war story so persuasive.' Telegraph best new children's books 'Woltz's achievement is significant.' Books for Keeps 'Gripping, realistic, and surprisingly hopeful, offering glimmers of life’s possibilities once class and economic differences have been erased—if only the characters can survive the war.' BookList

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Anna Woltz is an internationally bestselling children’s author based in the Netherlands. She has written twenty-six books for young readers, which have been translated into twenty-four languages and won numerous prizes. My Especially Weird Week with Tess was made into an award-winning film titled My Extraordinary Summer with Tess. It has been translated into thirteen languages.

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