Boyne, John, 1971-

Stay where you are & then leave / Stay where you are and then leave John Boyne ; with hand lettering by Oliver Jeffers. - First American edition. - 245 pages ; 22 cm

Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.

9781627790314 (hardback) 1627790314 (hardback)

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World War, 1914-1918--England--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--England--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Mental illness--Fiction.


London (England)--History--20th century.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.

JUV PZ 7 .B69677 St 2014