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2WW: The second part of the story following “The Sky is Falling”
Looking at the Moon
What you need to know before your trail
Norah, an English “war guest” living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She’ll spend it at the Ogilvie’s lavish cottage in Muskoka—a whole month of freedom, swimming, and being a child once again. War is ongoing in England and so the fear and homesickness is always in the back of her mind, but at last, there is a chance to be a child again. But this isn’t an ordinary summer And she has turned thirteen, which means life seems to be getting more complicated.
Then a cousin, Andrew, arrives. He is nineteen, handsome, intelligent, and Norah thinks she may be falling in love for the first time. Andrew however has a lot of his mind – he’s expected to go and fight in the war but he doesn’t want to. To disobey friends, family and the law is not going to be easy.
Travel Guide
The Muskoka region
War and evacuation – a difficult situation for a anyone least of all a child – being away from home and living with your new family who have promised to look after you until you can return home during the war. Toronto has been your home for a while but now you’re taken to a cabin retreat called Gairloch in the Muskoka region of Ontario.
Gairloch must have seemed like such a idyll for many reasons – a temporary escape from the war and from living in a strangers house, never mind how friendly they were- this was more like a holiday away from everything. And to be 13 and to feel love for the first time – freedom in every sense.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Looking at the Moon
Author/Guide Kit Pearson Destination: Muskoka Departure Time: WW2
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