To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Both my girls have read this and thoroughly enjoyed it , one is a keen reader the other not so keen but they both loved it. He has written three series for Puffin Books - Football Academy (7+), Foul Play (9+) and The Squad (9+) - and several books for Barrington Stoke, including Armistice Runner and After the War, both of which have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Lily has a great-great-grandfather who took part in the World War, she discovers that he wrote diaries when he was in the War and decided to read them.

He has worked around the UK and the world for the National Literacy Trust, the British Council, the Reading Agency, Reading Force, the Premier League, the FA and England Rugby. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. In different views of the characters there is a mix of excitement, sadness, and thought provoking times. This is a brilliant, thought-provoking book, packed with issues that children can relate to: friendship, family, loss. Will she discover what happened to grandfather in the great world war and work out why he stopped running?I would recommend this book to people who are interested in World War One fiction and who like reading books which change from diary entries to writing about real life in a family.

To add it is written form the point of view of one soldiers which makes it more personal and it makes it easier to relate. Lily is a young girl who enjoys running in fell races and filling in the details in her running log.Today’s grandparents are often portrayed in books as retired, cosy and very much hands-on with their grandchildren. A book that sucks you in, and whilst slow to start, gets the audience engrossed by half-way and wanting to come to school early to know what happens in the second half - well done Tom.