The Sky Is Falling

only the first book in a trilogy, "the sky is falling" is definitely a book to pick up and read. the lives of norah and gavin stoakes and their journey to canada is an extremely well written and touching story. once you finish this book, the other two ("looking at the moon" and "the lights go on again") are also must-reads! kudos to kit pearson, these books are brilliant!

The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson is a very good book. The main character is ten-year-old Norah Stoakes, who lives in England in 1940, during World War Two. She loves living in England, and she and her friends have a secret club called the Skywatchers, who watch the sky for enemy planes. But then Mr. and Mrs. Stoakes decide that it would be best to send Norah and her five-year-old brother, Gavin, to live in Canada until the war is over. Norah is upset, but she is sent to Canada anyway. She and Gavin get sent to live with the Ogilvies, a rich mother and daughter that live in Toronto. The children are told to call them Aunt Mary and Aunt Florence. They prefer Gavin, because all they wanted was a boy. Norah hates it in Canada. She has no friends, because in school she is considered a coward. She is miserable. Will Norah ever grow to like Canada? Will she and Gavin ever see England again? This book was interesting, and the ending was surprising. It taught me about what it was like to be an English evacuee in Canada during World War Two.

The Sky is Falling is a wonderful children's book by Canadian authouress Kit Pearson. It is the heart wrenching story of ten year old Norah and her brother Gavin, who flee England in the midst of the second World War. Gavin is too young to understand what is happening to him, but Norah knows perfectly well what is happening to her, her parents are shipping her off to some place called Canada, to live with people that she doesn't know in a place she has never visited. My reccomendation is to read it and buy it.

Although it is an unseemingly lucky, quickly paced and resolved story it is among the best children books written and as an adult, I can still read it and enjoy the sadness and earnestness in which the story is told. It goes back in time to World War II where the actual length of the war was unknown and where Hitler was a figure and power seemingly capable of anything. In the midst of this world finds a familt of four, Muv, Dad, Norah and Gavin. The star of the story, Norah, 10, is a headstrong tomboy who thinks it is cowardly to be sent away to the safer haven of Canada. Her brother Gavin, a sweet five year old, doesn't know what's happening. As Norah declines more and more into her misery and becomes a part of the Guest War family that happen to be powerful aristocrats, she forgets her fateful promise to her parents "Take care of Gavin." Aunt Florence, the woman who tries to model Gavin after her own dead son and had a sort of worship to the young boy has a huge personality clash with Norah. Among other this makes Norah more withdrawn, proud and stubborn than ever.