Alone on a Wide Wide Sea - Michael Morpurgo - 2006
I enjoyed this story that Matthew chose enormously and found it to be an emotional roller coaster. The story is based on a historical fact that after the second world war an enormous number of children were transported from the UK to the colonies. This story follows a fictitious character and the pain he went through being transported to another country as a young child and the treatment he received on arrival from a variety of adults. The second part of the book follows this character's daughter and her quest to find out more about her family. The daughter also has an emotional roller coater of her own and by the end I felt exhausted.
It is an easy read and I would recommend it to young and old alike however I did at times find the writing style difficult and I wished at times for more detail as I found the character would jump through some years that had the potential to be interesting. I give this book an 8/10.
JB
I really enjoyed reading this book because it had a lot of detail and was actually made of some history. This book had two stories in it. The one where a little boy gets moved to the Australia and has to make a life there, and the second one was his daughter going on a voyage back to the UK to find her long lost Aunt. I think that this book should be given 10/10 (Ten out of ten) because I really enjoyed reading it and tried to read it at every possibility.
MB (7D)
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