Shelter Me
by:
Alex McAulay (author)
Maggie Leigh just wants to be a normal teenager, but when German bombs tear apart London during World War II, her ultra-religious mother sees the destruction as divine punishment. She sends Maggie to a remote boarding school in coastal Wales, supposedly to keep her safe, but also to keep her in...
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Maggie Leigh just wants to be a normal teenager, but when German bombs tear apart London during World War II, her ultra-religious mother sees the destruction as divine punishment. She sends Maggie to a remote boarding school in coastal Wales, supposedly to keep her safe, but also to keep her in line. The school is creepy, the headmistress is a lunatic, and the students range from spoiled rich girls to speechless trauma victims. But when a tragic accident happens on the beach, Maggie and three friends are forced to flee the school, plunging into the nightmarish world of Europe during wartime. Now every decision Maggie makes is fraught with danger, and living to see another day depends on how quickly she can think and act...and how far she's willing to go.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781416545835 (1416545832)
Publish date: January 6th 2009
Publisher: MTV Books
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
The book was okish, I was attracted by the boarding school/war blurb. There were some things I didn't like though. The ending for example, that she gets thrown into prostitution . But also the fact that they tried to run away and failed hopelessly.
So yeah the beginning of this book sucked. Lots of things happened but the story flowed slowly and the pieces of the story didn't fit together well at all. However once Maggie finally reaches St Garan's things start to pick up and get interesting. Too bad it takes half a book for that to happen. Any...
This book was a bit dry at the beginning. I had a hard time forcing myself to read through the middle. The ending got a lot better, however I feel that it was given somewhat of a lame ending. Things didn't really start to get wrapped up until the last 5 pages or so of the book.