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The Prisoner

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Tom and Iris watch the enemy aircraft coming down towards the trees and make up their minds to go hunting for souvenirs. But they find more than they bargained the injured piot. And then the air-raid warning sounds and they all have to take shelter. While the two English children and the teenage German pilot are confined together, wih bombs falling all around them, Tom and Iris listen to Martin's story... BLJames Riordan's first novel Sweet Clarinet was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and won the Nasen Specisl Education Needs Award BLJames Riordan has earned a reputation for writing about war in a powerful and uncompromising way

126 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

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James Riordan

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Riōdan, Jeimuzu 1936-2012
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Riordan, Džejms.
Riordan, James
Riordan, James William 1936-2012
Riordan, Jim, 1936-2012

James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 10 February 2012) was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar.

Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels.

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