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Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
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Synopsis
It is the summer of 1940 and England is fighting for her life. In a rural corner of England the vagaries of war bring together a group of people wrestling the enemy within--fear, despair, loss of faith. A web of chance... a fateful meeting in a London street... A lost teddy bear... the wrong train... and the lives of four people were altered forever! A shy, middle-aged spinster was to find a new home and fall impossibly in love. An elderly street fiddler, bitter and lonely, was to take an unexpected train ride and encounter kindness from a total stranger. Two frightened children were to escape ther terrors of wartime London and bring dramatic changes to the Castle on the Hill.
Is The Castle on the Hill appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
Set during WWII with themes of fear and displacement, this gentle story focuses on strangers becoming family through kindness. War context includes evacuated children and wartime anxiety but no graphic violence.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include grief, war, and abandonment.
Who'll love this
Kids will enjoy this heartwarming story of how chance meetings during wartime bring lonely people together to form an unlikely family.