In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, dover, juvenile fiction, dunkirk, battle of, dunkerque, france, 1940, fiction, coming of age, great britain, history, 1936-1945, juvenile fiction, fiction, 19th century