Magorian, Michelle

A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during World War II.

A seventeen-year-old girl in 1940's England spends an unchaperoned summer at a cottage in a seaside village, where a series of diaries by the cottage's most recent inhabitant, together with some intense personal experiences, open up her life to reveal her true wants and priorities.

Having attended day care with his sister, Eric wonders who will look after him there, now that his sister is old enough to go to school.

Sent to America from England at age seven to escape war-torn England, Rusty returns five years later to go to a strict English boarding school and renew her relationship with her family, who now seem like strangers to her.

A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during World War II.