Fireweed

Suitable for 10 – 13 years

Format
Paperback
eur prices
Price: 10.40
Rewards price: €10.39
Product ordering

Buy this and your school gets €2.08 to spend on books

This product has not been rated yet.

0 reviews (Add a review)

Delivery information

  • FREE ROI postage on orders €40 or over
  • €8 postage charge on ROI orders
    under €40

Book Club orders

  • FREE postage to schools*
  • Books will be despatched after the school's order is confirmed

ROI postage within 8 working days

Postage charges and times vary for overseas addresses

Delivery information and refund and returns policy

*Excluding border charge

Product description

A celebrated wartime classic by a major author.

Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he’s finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He’s fed by a local cafe owner and earns some cash as a barrow-boy in Covent Garden. Sleeping in the Underground air-raid shelters is even quite cosy – if a bit smelly. But then Julie turns up. She’s a runaway too – a bit posh, but just as determined as Bill to stay free of interfering parents and ‘the social’. But although it’s fun for a while to duck Jerry missiles and camp out in bombed-out houses, the reality of living through the Blitz quickly begins to set in. Winter is coming, and Bill and Julie will learn that playing at being grown-ups can be a very dangerous game…

First published in 1970, and winner of that year’s Book World Festival Award, Fireweed evokes a time of tin Spitfires, powdered eggs, warm woollen mittens and reading by firelight.

Product Details

Catalogue number

1314 in Setanta Education Cat 2024/25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781471401749

Publisher

Hot Key Books

Date published

August 1st, 2013

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.3; Middle years; 6.0 points

Condition

New

Available in these packs

Reviews

This product has not been reviewed yet.

Add a review

Customers also bought

Promotions available

How do I use promotional codes

Delivery restrictions information

For delivery to United States,
please visit the Scholastic World shop

Go to the Scholastic World shop Continue on the Scholastic Ireland shop

See our delivery and payment information for more details