There are also the themes of love, peace, hate, prejudice and revenge to tackle. God and faith are at the center of this schoolboy novel and what would happen if Jesus came into today's world as might have happened in this 1950's world is just one point of discussion elicited here. 14, 1995 Morpurgo (The Sandman and the Turtles, 1994, etc.) chooses a British preparatory school in the 1950s as the unlikely setting for the second coming of Christ in an engrossing, imaginative tale. This one should cause some lively discussions. the war of jenkins' ear by Michael Morpurgo RELEASE DATE: Sept. Morpurgo draws his characters and their private and public torments well. Toby Jenkins friendship with an unusual new boy who claims to be Jesus makes life at. Christopher's miracles, if such they are, alternately thrill and frighten Toby and Toby is the 'Peter' who denies Christopher when the chips are down. A spellbinding childrens story from from War Horse author and former Childrens Laureate,Michael Morpurgo - now with a brand new cover look.Toby Jenkins doesn. Soon a war erupts between the town boys and the school boys at a river which divides the two classes. They all suffer great derision when the secret gets out.

Neither the reader nor either of the boys is ever sure whether that's delusion or reality. He seems completely unafraid of teachers or bullies and he tells Toby and Swann that he is Jesus Christ reborn. It's Christopher, the new boy, who upsets it all. Toby Jenkins is a second year student there and though he dreads the moment when the new term starts, he's made a kind of grim adjustment to the mindless rules and conformity demanded here. It all takes place at Redlands school, a British prepatory school - not a bad place as such schools go although Toby hates it. This book was reviewed by Carol Otis Hurst in Teaching K-8 Magazine.

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