No Bedtime Story by Mary Nicholson (.PDF)
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No Bedtime Story by Mary Nicholson
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Overview: Jacko is a schoolboy in a country where Freedom is something that people talk about. His father often talks about it, in a strange, angry way, and in grownup language that does not seem to Jacko to mean anything very much. His mother teaches him a song that has something to do with it, too, but he understands that he must not sing this in the streets.
Then one day Jacko realizes. that people are trying to do something about this Freedom, and the first results for him seem to be that life becomes very much more complicated, and worrying, and difficult. For one thing, he is left to look after his four-year-old sister, Vicky, alone. Christine soon comes to help, and has to stay when her own home gets knocked down by a tank. And then her friend Banger arrives, and they, being a few years older than Jacko, get the food and make plans. But Banger is mostly busy with fighting.
The fighting intensifies and soon becomes a full-scale battle; and when the air raids start Jacko has his own moment of anger, and violence, and horror.
Many innocent people, up and down the earth, have suffered in the long war between the world powers. Jacko, who lives only in an imaginary country, speaks for them all. .
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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