After just finishing the last one in this trilogy in 30 minutes, I think I have already given you an idea of how hard they are to read. But I did like them, and they are about scary stuff.
Title: Once, Then, Now (Trilogy)
Author: Morris Gleitzman
Rating: 79%
Notes: These are quite light reads, and definitely children's books, but they are nice for a laid-back hour or possibly two, and help educate one about the war and in the last one about bush fires a bit. He is a good writer, and they are written in a hard way, not to read but the way he has written them in a sort of straight-forward manner: sorry that I'm being inarticulate here but I hope you know what I mean.
Plot Summary: Once and Then are about Felix, an eleven year old, coping with the war and taking in a small girl called Zelda. They nearly get sent to a concentration camp, and then get adopted by a kind lady, but eventually they struggle through. In Now, it is Felix's granddaughter Zelda telling the story of how she thought she had started a bush fire, and showing how kind Felix is and how she helps the older girl who bullied her in school.
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