Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing
Summer 1940. As the cuckoo sings out across the Lake District, life is about to change for ever for local boy Tommy and his friend Sally, the mysterious evacuee girl who lives on the neighbouring farm. When they find a wounded Nazi airman in the woods, Sally persuades Tommy not to report it but to keep the German hidden. This starts a chain of events that leads to the uncovering of secrets about Sally’s past and a summer of adventure that neither child will ever forget.
Jonathan and Shirley Tulloch were inspired to write I Am a Cloud, I Can Blow Anywhere because of their experiences living in Africa. Shirley lived among the Tonga people in Zimbabwe for two years with no electricity and no tar roads. Both Jonathan and Shirley lived in Johannesburg for one year where Jonathan was a writer in residence in a local township. Som
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