Sometimes a mob of little girls in dresses too long for them crowded in from the corridor. Sometimes the carriage where Vivian was filled with small boys in grey shorts, whose skinny legs were in thick grey socks and whose heads, each in a grey school cap, seemed too big for their bare, skinny necks. Half of the children never stayed still for a moment. So she hung on to the string bag until its handles were wet with sweat and the plaited pattern was stamped in red on her hands. But Vivian had never met Cousin Marty and she was terrified that they would somehow miss each other. Vivian had carefully written Cousin Marty’s name and address on the back of the label, to show that she was not just being sent into the country, like most of the children, to be taken in by anyone who would have her.Ĭousin Marty, after a long delay, had promised to meet the train and have Vivian to stay with her until the danger of bombs was over. When your surname is Smith, you need to make very sure everyone knows just which Smith you are. That meant that Vivian did not dare let go of the string bag. Vivian, being one of the bigger ones, had her label tied to the string bag Mum had found to take the things that refused to fit into her suitcase. All of them had a label with their name and address on it, and the littlest ones (who cried and wet themselves rather often) had the label tied round their necks with string. Each child carried a square brown gas mask box. They were all being sent away from London from the bombing and most of them had no idea where milk came from. There were several hundred of them and nearly all of them screamed when they saw a cow. There was a heatwave that September in 1939, and the railway authorities had fastened all the windows shut so that none of the children packed on to the train could fall out. Line, which involves finding a mysterious casket which could be hiddenĮntertaining, but not among Jones' best works. Girl, but finds herself caught up in the quest to repair the time Vivian convinces them that she is, in fact, only an ordinary Impression that Vivian was a powerful and legendary figure, the Time
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Slipping, and history is getting confused. Things 'on track.' However, things have been going wrong. Of alternate time plane, and is collectively responsible for keeping Have brought her to their home, Time City. Turn out to be two boys around her own age, Sam and Johnathan, who However, she never makes it to herĭestination, as she is kidnapped from a train platform. In 1939, England, a young girl Vivian, is being evacuated from Londonĭue to the onset of WWII (a seemingly common premise for a great deal
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