Tom Kipper's Schooldays: Memories of an Irish Childhood in Liverpool

by PeterSale (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.44

  Meet Tom Kipper, Espionage Agent Extraordinaire. Born into a poor Irish family in Liverpool, Tom Kipper is now ten years old and full of mischief. A pupil at Saint Joseph's Academy ('of Hard Knocks'), he spends his days dodging Spiderlady McCann's vicious pencil and scrapping in the yeard once school's out. Well, what's life without a good smack in the kisser? The arrival of war in 1939 shakes Tom's world. Woodwork teacher Mr Schwenk has to leave, and an air raid reduces the Kippers' home to rubble. But for Tom, there are always adventures to be had, especially when he captures a real-life German pilot...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.17

  This nostalgic, funny and poignant account of growing up in Liverpool during the Second World War will warm the cockles of your heart...Meet Tom Kipper, Espionage Agent Extraordinaire. Born into a poor Irish family in Liverpool in 1928, Tom Kipper is ten years old and full of mischief. A pupil at Saint Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks (as the kids call it), he spends his days dodging Spiderlady McCann's vicious pencil and engaging in a good scrap when school's out. But the arrival of war will shake Tom's world, bringing loss, confusion and further adventure!