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A spellbinding children’s story from 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.


Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Private Peaceful, and An Elephant in the Garden. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carneg

The War of Jenkins Ear

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 3 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9781405226721
      978-1405226721
      ISBN-10 1405226722
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A spellbinding children’s story from 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.


      Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Private Peaceful, and An Elephant in the Garden. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carneg

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