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|title=Sam's Spitfire Summer

|author=Ian MacDonald and Charlie Clough

|publisher=Educational Printing Services Ltd

|date=January 2008

|summary=An extraordinary tale of a boy's courage during the 2nd World War.

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''Sam's Spitfire Summer'' is billed as a thrilling WW2 adventure. In my opinion it is not. This is not a high octane adventure. Instead it is the story of a rather ordinary boy, homesick, terribly frightened and unsure of himself after being evacuated from London. This book describes the life of a child during WW2 with such realism that I honestly wonder if it might have some basis in fact. It describes Sam's loneliness, and fear, being separated from his parents as his father goes away to fight the Germans, and his Mother remains in London, with the risk of bombing. This book really gives a good glimpse at how Sam feels being evacuated. He misses his home desperately and is frightened by the large animals in the country - such as cows.