Kent, Trilby, 1982-

Medina Hill / - Toronto : Tundra Books, c2009. - 170 p. ; 20 cm.

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.

9780887768880 (hc) 0887768881

2008909727

20089066383


Boys--Juvenile fiction.
Romanies--Juvenile fiction.
Justice--Juvenile fiction.
Boys--Fiction.
Romanies--Fiction.
Justice--Fiction.


Cornwall (England : County)--Juvenile fiction.
Cornwall (England : County)--Fiction.

PZ7.K421 / Me 2009

[Fic] jC813/.54