Flamingo Boy (Hardcover) by Michael Morpurgo

For readers of 9+, in the vein of PRIVATE PEACEFUL and THE BUTTERFLY LION\nThis is a landmark new novel from the nation\u2019s favourite storyteller, set in the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2. There, a young autistic boy lives on his parents\u2019 farm among the salt flats, and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn\u2019t understand: but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine, and music too: and every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel.\nBut then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town. A soldier shoots a flamingo from the sky, and it falls to earth terribly injured. And even worse is to come: the carousel is damaged, the horses broken. For this vulnerable boy, everything is falling apart.\nOnly there\u2019s a kind sergeant among the Germans \u2013 a man with a young boy of his own at home, a man who trained as a carpenter. Between them, perhaps 6