by Michael Morpurgo · Mammoth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749716592
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«Long Way Home» is the children's and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Mammoth in paperback (128 pages, in English).
George, a twelve-year-old boy, spends the summer on the Dyers' farm, his seventh foster home. Used to not putting down roots, this time life in the countryside and his relationship with Tom and Storme make him begin to feel at home. An unforeseen incident will test those new bonds and force him to decide where he truly belongs.
«Long Way Home» originally appeared in 1975; the Mammoth paperback edition is from 1994.
For young readers from primary school upwards looking for realistic stories about foster homes, friendship and belonging.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
