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Available
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Publication
Heinemann (1968), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 160 pages
Description
A reissue of a much-loved adventure which has stood the test of time and is as exciting today as when it was first published nearly 70 years ago. It all begins when Nick breaks the classroom window with his football, and the Headmaster says Nick has to pay for the damage. Nick has no more hope of raising the money than of going to the Moon, so that's when rivalling Ted's and Toppy's gangs decide to sign a truce and plan Operation Glazier to get the money for Nick. The plan goes smoothly and soon the money has been collected, but when it goes missing the boys turn detective to try and find the culprit.
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This is by a writer who was both a poet laureate of England and a writer of adult mysteries as Nicholas Blake, but personally I like this story better than any of his "adult" work that I have seen. It is about 2 gangs of boys in post WW2 Britain who are fighting a lively battle of their own with
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"sticky bombs" to be attached to a "tank" -- however, a window gets broken, and they do various fundraising projects and successfully raise the money to pay for the window -- but then the cash vanishes under circumstances implicating one of the leading boys, so his friends turn detective to find who really took it. The mental toughness and maturity --and loyalty -- of the boys coming out of the rough postwar world is very striking. Show Less
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Original publication date
1948
Physical description
160 p.; 7.4 inches
ISBN
0435120018 / 9780435120016
Local notes
A group of boys band together to raise the money to replace a window one of them broke playing football.
An adaptation of a French screenplay, Nous les gosses (Us Kids) which was filmed in 1941.
Ex-library.
An adaptation of a French screenplay, Nous les gosses (Us Kids) which was filmed in 1941.
Ex-library.