Just a Quickie

Hello?! Any chance I could share my bed??

I somehow managed to squeeze on there and read this little book...

At The Firefly Gate by Linda Newbery

Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: David Fickling Books (March 13, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0385751133

What a neat little story this is!

Henry, a young boy about to enter 7th grade, moves with his parents to a village in Suffolk. The first friend he makes is not the young girl next door, but rather her great-aunt, Dottie.

To Dottie Henry is a reminder of another Henry-her fiance, who was a Royal Air Force navigator that never returned from his 13th bombing mission.

Henry likes listening to Dottie's memories of that time, and sometimes he has the feeling of being in someone else's body.

Henry see's a shadowy figure that appears in the evening and seems to be waiting, amid the fireflies, at the gate of the garden and at night he thinks he hears the old planes that flew over more than 60 years earlier.

While playing with a flight-simulator program on a computer, Henry "sees" what happened on that final mission for Henry.

I have to stop there or you'll know the whole story! I sent for this book because they said it was a friendship between a young boy and an old lady. (which it was) I really enjoyed this little book.

Maybe one day you'll see me .. at the firefly gate.