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Award-winning, best-selling and beloved Jacqueline Wilson tells the fascinating, moving story of a girl sent away from home as an evacuee during the Second World War. September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, 10-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn't know where she's going, or what's going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she's going on 'a little holiday'.

Every summer, Laney’s family visits their cottage on Tidnish Beach. Summertime on Nova Scotia’s north shore is slow and sweet: there are long days in the water until fingers turn pruney, bottomless glasses of cherry Kool-Aid and bonfires with the other families summering along the shore. But this year the baking heat and bright red sand provide cold comfort. This year Laney’s little sister, Jenny, is gone.

Eltern besuchen das Internat! Doch alle anderen coolen Kinder haben den Termin abgesagt, damit die Eltern nicht vorbeikommen, außer Clara... die wusste es natürlich nicht! Jetzt wird das ganze Internat ihre Eltern kennenlernen! Außerdem werden die Noten vom Halbjahreszeugnis festgelegt und James hat eine besonders gute Idee, wie er seinen Notendurchschnitt verbessern kann.