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In the grimy London docklands of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has stopped speaking. Life with an ailing mother, an unemployed father, and unanswered questions about the war that haunts his family lead him to retreat into a world of silence. Then Uncle Roo invites Dominic and his sister to sp...

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Main Author: Kent, Trilby (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto Tundra Books 2009
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Summary:In the grimy London docklands of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has stopped speaking. Life with an ailing mother, an unemployed father, and unanswered questions about the war that haunts his family lead him to retreat into a world of silence. Then Uncle Roo invites Dominic and his sister to spend the summer on the Cornish coast. In a boarding house full of eccentrics, the children discover a free-thinking, unstructured way of life unlike any they have known before. The idyllic holiday is threatened when a village uprising against a band of Travelers tests Dominic's friendship with a Gypsy girl. He decides to take a stand for justice and the victimized community, and learns what it truly means to have a voice
Physical Description:172 p. 20 cm
ISBN:9780887768880
0887768881

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