Secondhand Michael Morpurgo Chapter Book (Age 8-12) Bargain Book Box SP4023

Secondhand Michael Morpurgo Chapter Book (Age 8-12) Bargain Book Box SP4023

Fifteen Michael Morpurgo novels, including Private Peaceful, The Butterfly Lion, Farm Boy and Shadow. War, animals, islands and grandfathers, told by the writer who gets nine-year-olds to cry on purpose and ask for more. Some covers may carry price stickers or sticker residue.

1. The White Horse of Zennor and Other Stories — Michael Morpurgo — Five Cornish stories of mermaids, spectral horses and the sea. The one he wrote about the place he loves most.
2. Long Way Home — Michael Morpurgo — George is a foster kid who’s stopped expecting anywhere to stick, sent to a farm for the summer. Morpurgo’s first novel, and still one of his most honest.
3. The Wreck of the Zanzibar — Michael Morpurgo — Laura’s diary of a year on the Scilly Isles: her twin leaves, the farm fails, and a wreck changes everything. Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year.
4. Dear Olly — Michael Morpurgo — A brother in Africa, a sister at home and the swallow that flies between them. Three voices, one of them a bird.
5. Billy the Kid — Michael Morpurgo — Eighty-year-old Billy, once a Chelsea footballer, remembers the war that took it away. Michael Foreman’s illustrations carry half of it.
6. An Elephant in the Garden — Michael Morpurgo — Dresden, 1945: a family flees the firebombing with an elephant from the zoo. Based on a true story.
7. Shadow — Michael Morpurgo — An Afghan boy, an Army sniffer dog, and a journey that ends in a British detention centre. Morpurgo on a war still being fought.
8. The Sleeping Sword — Michael Morpurgo — A blind boy on the Scillies finds a sword in a sea cave, and it’s Excalibur. Arthurian legend handled with care.
9. My Friend Walter — Michael Morpurgo — Bess meets a ghost in the Tower of London, and he’s Sir Walter Raleigh. He comes home with her. Smarties shortlist.
10. The War of Jenkins’ Ear — Michael Morpurgo — A boarding-school boy claims to be Jesus, and his friend has to decide whether to believe him. One of Morpurgo’s strangest and best.
11. Friend or Foe — Michael Morpurgo — Two evacuees find a crashed German bomber and the airmen who survived it. The moral problem is the whole book.
12. Waiting for Anya — Michael Morpurgo — Occupied France: a shepherd boy helps smuggle Jewish children over the Pyrenees. Tense, and based on real events.
13. The Butterfly Lion — Michael Morpurgo — A white lion cub in Africa, a boy sent to boarding school, and a chalk lion on a hillside. Smarties Prize winner; the ending is famous.
14. Private Peaceful — Michael Morpurgo — Tommo waits through one night before dawn, telling his life and his brother’s. The book that gets the Great War into a ten-year-old. Blue Peter Book Award.
15. Farm Boy — Michael Morpurgo — The sequel to War Horse: Joey’s story told a generation later by the grandson who inherits it. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.