The Skylarks' War: Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award

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I think it would work better as a Noel Streatfeild book, with the focus on the home front; lines like "'For those in peril on the sea!' sang the girls, and of course the seas were perilous, that was well known from poetry" feel very Streatfeildian in tone. (Perhaps that's another thing that makes the book feel too contemporary: Streatfeild, after all, didn't write about WWI.) I really enjoyed this book, in particular the character build-up and how being a soldier in the war wasn’t the main theme (unlike most war books).I really enjoyed the fact that you got to hear the other side of a story heard and read many times. I think that this story had quite an uneventful plot line but things like relatable characters and intriguing, mysterious settings. This species can be found on the following statutory and conservation listings and schedules. UK Birds of Conservation Concern

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This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.” The characters are heartbreakingly lovable. The gaggle of schoolboys, Simon, Peter and Rupert, who go from childish antics at boarding school to growing up to fight a war. Rupert, who for Clarry, epitomises Summer. The boys are unfailingly, unflinchingly /kind/ despite their boyhood, and you can feel how much Clarry loves them. Clarry herself is especially lovable, with her determination and stubbornness to not only be as kind as humanly possible, but to get an education and prove that "girls can do anything!" Vanessa, too, is brash and loud and ballsy, but ultimately determined to keep everyone's spirits up during wartime. There is good evidence to indicate that the most likely cause of declines in Skylark is agricultural intensification, specifically the change from spring to autumn sowing of cereals, which reduces the number of breeding attempts possible and may also reduce overwinter survival due to loss of winter stubbles. It is an ideal story to introduce young children to important time periods in history in a way that helps them experience a small slice of it themselves through the characters.

He was talking about plays in which most of the time, when there was a gay character, they wind up committing suicide or getting beaten to death or sent to prison," Crowley says. "There was always a terrible fate for anybody who was gay. And so, I was determined not to have that happen, here in this." The plot of the story was a combination of a few attributes and the way it was written portrayed this very well. At times of sadness the story moved slow as if time [had stopped], this was prominent when Simon died. Also, in times of hope and adventure the story moves fast as something is constantly going on.

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See currently unavailable books See my books that are unfortunately currently out of print, and also not currently available as ebooks or audiobooks. Clarry, growing up in the early 1900’s, realises the opportunities for girls and the expectations put upon them, are different than those for boys, but she fights against that. Both clever and hardworking, she earns a place at a grammar school and sets her sights on a scholarship to Oxford. Rupert and Peter, on the other hand, are reluctant boarding school pupils, who cannot wait until the day they can leave. This is so meticulously plotted that I don't quite know how to untangle what didn't work for me from what absolutely did.

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Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September - boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer. When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. I have really enjoyed reading The Skylarks’ War and experiencing the journey of Clarry and her brother. I have a few favourite characters from this story. Clarry is everyone’s favourite character and I too have fallen in love with her. Peter is my second; I love his silly characteristic and his slight pessimistic vibe on occasion. Rupert has to be my absolute favourite as you just cannot help falling in love with this young man. He is portrayed as this idyllic teen and sees the good in almost everything. Not long ago I heard a piece on NPR about the revival of the play, The Boys in the Band of which this was said: Peter injures his leg when he is young, meaning he cannot enlist at the outbreak of war. He is studious, a fatherly figure for his younger sister, and is determined to do something for the war effort. and Peter Penrose grow up without a mother, and with a neglectful and disinterested father. Fending for themselves, with the help of hard work,humour, brains and the kindness of others, they grow up strong and independent. At the centre of their story is the friendship with cousin Rupert, and with Peter's school friend Simon and his sister Vanessa. 🕊️- Tell me, how is darling school? Do they miss me? Have I been mentioned in Those in Our Thoughts Today? - Of course. Let us hold in our thoughts today, Vanessa Bonnington. Loud and vulgar but very much missed.🕊️

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The Skylarks' War will make you laugh and cry. I found myself hugging it to my chest several times and wondering how many people I could make read this book asap. Anyway, this is a short book, but it FEELS big. It also feels old school, the way it follows Clarry from childhood to adulthood. I miss books like that. Occasionally, very occasionally, you read a book that slips so perfectly into the canon that it seems as if it was always there. That you read it as a child, reread it over and over, until it forms part of you along with Anne Shirley and Jo March, the Fossil sisters, Jo Bettany and Veronica Weston and Nicola Marlowe... the Skylarks' War is such a book.Although it’s aimed at children aged 9-12, The Skylarks War is a book that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Set in the time leading up to and during the First World War, it is a beautifully written, poignant and moving tale. This story engaged us from the start, in fact the first part of this book that covers the characters childhood was perfect. We started with the birth of Clarry and then with the loss of one parent and the other three not being interested the three children are pretty much on their own. Such real characters, wonderful descriptions, happiness, sadness and such humour. We loved the descriptions of the perfect summers enjoyed by Rupert and his cousins Peter and Clarry with grandparents who also didn't really want them but gave them the freedom to play outdoors and make their own decisions. On a personal level my favourite character is Peter, who feels ashamed of himself that he cannot go off and fight due to a large injury on his leg. I find him the most interesting because at the start he’s very stubborn and is upset that his mother had died. But when he goes to boarding school he makes a good friend and his personality changes where he becomes happier, kinder, and more accepting towards his family. This book has given me a new interest in WWI and has inspired me to learn more about it. So I would definitely recommend this book to other students who learning about that period, or even if they aren’t! I believe this is her first historical fiction, and while we got more than a glimpse of horrors of the Western Front during the Great War, it was softened by our Clarry's drive to improve her lot in life, as she also beetles about keeping everyone in her hemisphere safe.

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Skylark is among the most well-studied farmland species, and the decline is believed to have been caused by agricultural intensification, in particular the change from spring to autumn sowing of crops, which reduces the number of breeding attempts and also the availability of stubbles during the winter. Actions or policies which provide or encourage a mosaic habitat including some spring sown crops and/or some overwinter stubble would therefore benefit Skylarks. If overwinter survival is a significant driver of the declines, actions which provide overwinter food may also help (e.g. set-aside or cover crops).Which leaves Simon, Peter’s friend from boarding school who is different from most, and whose love for Rupert leaves him to enlist and follow him to the Western Front. This is a difficult one because I have two friend who love and adore this book, even to the point where they cried over certain scenes and swear it is the best thing since slice bread, so for me to admit that I did not like it at all is probably going to get me killed. When you do come with your pitchforks, please be gentle with me... Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life comes to an end as the shadow of a terrible war looms - and when Rupert goes off to fight at the Front, Clarry feels their skylarks summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war?" (Blurb) Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldiers remarked how strange it was that the birds should be there, but in fact the birds had been there for centuries. The Skylark declined rapidly from the mid 1970s until the mid 1980s, when the rate of decline slowed. BBS data show further decline, with fluctuations in Scotland and Wales. The BBS map of change in relative density between 1994-96 and 2007-09 indicates that decrease was severe in Northern Ireland and eastern England but that numbers rose in Scotland during that period, especially in the northwest. There has been a decline across Europe since 1980 ( PECBMS: PECBMS 2020a>).