The Amazing Mind of Alice Makin by Alan Shea
It would have been very difficult for children in England at the end of WWII. How many families were still intact? Talk about Post Traumatic Stress, what about those children who lived through the bombing raids? There were no counsellors available for them.
Alice Makin is one of these children. She has survived the war, but can she survive the peace. Her escape is her imagination, and there she can be really happy. But when a new boy joins her class at school, strange things start happening. Strange and fantastic things that used to just happen in her imagination. What is happening, and more importantly, when will it end?
This is a light-hearted fun novel about the power you have to control your own environment. In a time when children are continuously reminded of the bushfires, stranger danger and all the other disasters they may encounter, a happy positive book is a refreshing change.
