The War of Jenkin’s Ear

Morpurgo, Michael

A spellbinding children’s story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo – now with a brand new cover look.

Toby Jenkins doesn’t like boarding school. He gets called Jinks and thinks he will never fit in. But then he meets a strange boy named Christopher who believes that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. When the village boy ‘oiks’ start a war with the schoolboy ‘toffs’, Toby is caught in the middle. Can Christopher provide the miracle that Toby needs?

A brilliant evocation of school life from the master storyteller.

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