A quintessential coming of age story. It tells of Laurie Lee’s childhood in Gloucestershire, just after WW1. But it is not only Lee’s coming of age, it is also that of the village, as the rural backwater changes rapidly, losing many of its traditional village ways and gaining things such as motor ve...
This is third book in the trilogy "The Fate of the Stone." The other two books, #1 The Secret of the Alchemist and #2 The Stone of Sorrow, are okay, although not really that interesting for teen readers. (Adults are frequently the only ones in scenes, which is hard for kids to identify with and the ...