Fireweed
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Fireweed

Jill Paton Walsh
3.79
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Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from London struggle to survive the blitz of 1940.
Genres: Historical FictionFictionYoung AdultWorld War IIHistoricalChildrensWarBritish LiteratureComing Of AgeFriendship
133 Pages

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