Medina Hill /
By: Kent, Trilby
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BookPublisher: Toronto : Tundra Books, c2009Description: 170 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780887768880 (hc); 0887768881.Subject(s): Boys -- Juvenile fiction | Romanies -- Juvenile fiction | Justice -- Juvenile fiction | Boys -- Fiction | Romanies -- Fiction | Justice -- Fiction | Cornwall (England : County) -- Juvenile fiction | Cornwall (England : County) -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] | jC813/.54 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Summary: In the grimy London docklands of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has stopped speaking. Life with an ailing mother, an unemployed father, and unanswered questions about the war that haunts his family lead him to retreat into a world of silence. Then Uncle Roo invites Dominic and his sister to spend the summer on the Cornish coast. In a boarding house full of eccentrics, the children discover a free-thinking, unstructured way of life unlike any they have known before. The idyllic holiday is threatened when a village uprising against a band of Travelers tests Dominic's friendship with a Gypsy girl. He decides to take a stand for justice and the victimized community, and learns what it truly means to have a voice.
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In the grimy London docklands of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has stopped speaking. Life with an ailing mother, an unemployed father, and unanswered questions about the war that haunts his family lead him to retreat into a world of silence. Then Uncle Roo invites Dominic and his sister to spend the summer on the Cornish coast. In a boarding house full of eccentrics, the children discover a free-thinking, unstructured way of life unlike any they have known before. The idyllic holiday is threatened when a village uprising against a band of Travelers tests Dominic's friendship with a Gypsy girl. He decides to take a stand for justice and the victimized community, and learns what it truly means to have a voice.
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