Back Home

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Summary: Back Home is a heart-warming story about a young girl.
Review: "Back Home" is a heart-warming story about a young girl who was evacuated for 5 years to America because of World War 2.The book is about the girls return to England and how she must face the difference between America's plentiful supply's and Englands few. Also how she has to deal with the emotional hardships of being reunited with her family again and the big difference between England and America's custom's. She must also deal with the fact is that she's being sent of to boarding school were the girls don't like her.

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Summary: Sad, but interesting
Review: and just had to buy it to find out what happened. And I'm at least 25 years outside the target audience. A really, really good story. BTW, the Editorial Reviews on this page are for another book with the same title--ignore them.

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Summary: Back Home
Review: Back Home is about a girl called Virginia Dickinson (Rusty) and she was evacuated to America when she was 5 and so she adapted to the American way of life as she stayed there until she was 12. She came home to a war torn country and a totally new way of life. She has to blend in with her family and make new friends but she finds this very difficult. She cannot stop thinking about her American family and thinks of them closer than her real family. Her Grandmother and Father then come into the picture and want her sent off to boarding school and to lose that 'awful' accent and become the sophisticated child she used to be before her vacation. (Rusty is her nickname because of her hair) Rusty does not fit in and so she has no friends only enemys and everyone in the school is against her. Her only friend is Lance a 'Boy' from another school. Her life goes on like this and it really gets her down but she cannot tell anyone this except Lance........ To find out what happens read this 'superb book' I am sure you will love it Miss it Miss out!

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Summary: Back Home
Review: I had watched the TV series Goodnight Mr. Tom on TV. Which i really enjoyed. So when we were asked at school to pick a book of our choice to do a book report on i noticed that Michelle Magorian was the author of this book, so i jumped at the chance. I bought the book and when read it i found that i could not stop. I would recomend the book to anyone it has a great story line and is a brilliant read.

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Summary: The Best!!!!!!!!
Review: I really loved this book! Apart from the good use of language and feeling, the theme of the story is one that I can relate to. I moved to America from Britain when I was four years old and returned when I was eleven. All the complicated emotions that Rusty experiences (sadness, alienation, depression, despair) are ones that I also had to face. In the end, I also ,like Rusty, managed to come to terms with living in Britain. I recommend this book to anyone who feels like an outsider, or is interested in the time period during and after the second world war.It is really descriptive, and the words paint a very realistic picture of life in the 1940's. I just couldn't put this book down. If you enjoyed "Back Home", you should check out "Goodnight Mister Tom" which is also by Michelle Magorian.

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Summary: The Best!!
Review: This book is one of my favorite books that I have ever read. It's the type of book that I can't put down. "Rusty" an English girl who was evacuated to America during World War II, comes back to England after 5 years to find everything in England has changed. Her mother doesn't even seem like her mother. Then she is sent to boarding school, and even has difficulties there. I reccomend this book to teenagers.

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Summary: A Heartwarming Story
Review: This book was fabulous! It's about a girl who returns to England after the war. She doesn't fit in with the other girls at the boarding school, everything she does annoys her mother at first, and when her father comes home it's even worse! I can't go on, or I'll give away the ending, but READ THIS BOOK! 1

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Summary: Sad, but interesting
Review: Virginia Dickenson is sent to America from England as a 7 year-old to be sheltered from World War II. She spends five years with a family there, and gains the name Rusty. When she gets home, life changes dramatically. She feels unloved and her mother expects better behavior, and enforces rules strictly. When Rusty's father comes home from war, he cannot believe that she answers him back, and doesn't take "because I said so and I am the man of the house" as a suitable answer. He sends her to an even stricter all-girl boarding school, where she is an outcast. She doesn't know latin, french, or algebra and is made fun of because of her accent. Then she meets a boy who hates his all-boy school, too, and was sent near where she was in America for the war. They discover (on a prohibited secret night visit to the woods) a cabin. Can Rusty survive boarding school?