Children’s Book about Civil War/Conflict?

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Children’s Book about Civil War/Conflict?

1erin475
Jun. 6, 2023, 5:20 pm

Set in a place where there is a conflict between these two fictional towns/regimes. There’s “old country” and then another place I can’t remember the name of. This other place has a very strict, militant regime (curfews etc). There are bombings and people are starving. This boy and his new neighbour, Pavel (I think he’s an immigrant) are basically indoctrinated by this gang boss to do jobs for him in exchange for furniture for their den/inhalers for the boy’s asthmatic mother. Now that I’ve described this book I’m not entirely convinced it is a children’s book because it’s quite heavy lol but I think I got it from the school library.

2lizzie_b
Jun. 13, 2023, 2:36 pm

>1 erin475: Hi, could it be The Bombs that Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan?

The main character Charlie Law lives in Little Town (which borders Old Country), and makes friends with Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country!

3Cecrow
Jun. 13, 2023, 3:59 pm