{"id":823,"date":"2016-03-23T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-03-23T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T15:10:40","slug":"the-blitz-next-door-by-cathy-forde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2016\/03\/23\/the-blitz-next-door-by-cathy-forde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blitz Next Door by Cathy Forde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-829\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/files\/2016\/03\/9781782502036.jpg\" alt=\"9781782502036\" width=\"170\" height=\"253\" \/>Pete has never even heard of Clydebank in Scotland, but when his dad finds a new job at last, Pete finds himself leaving his home in London overnight.<br \/>\nThere are advantages to his new life, including a massive new bedroom and his first ever garden, complete with a real-life bomb shelter.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d even be ok with the sound of the girl next door crying all the time &#8212; except that there is no house next door&#8230;Pete makes two new friends: Dunny, who knows all about the Second World War, and Beth, the girl next door who somehow seems to come from it.<br \/>\nHe slowly realises that Beth has returned from the 1940s for a reason.<br \/>\nBut does Pete have the courage to step into the past to solve a mystery that&#8217;s over seventy years old?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">It was a really good book because of all the characters. I loved the character Beth Winters. RW (S1) *****<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete has never even heard of Clydebank in Scotland, but when his dad finds a new job at last, Pete finds himself leaving his home in London overnight. There are advantages to his new life, including a massive new bedroom and his first ever garden, complete with a real-life bomb shelter. He&#8217;d even be ok &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,113,105,6,78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-for-boys","category-books-for-girls","category-forde","category-ghosts","category-historical-stories","category-mystery","category-scottish-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}