Summer of the Zeppelin

By Elsie McCutcheon

Subjects: England, fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Country life, Orphans, fiction, Stepparents, fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Stepmothers

Description: During the summer of 1918, with her father fighting in Germany and her stepmother perpetually irritable and critical, twelve-year-old Elvira decides to go live with an orphaned friend in an abandoned house and wait out the war.