John Boyne, Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
This is a good story about love, war, life and family.
Alfie Summerfield loves his father and mother. In 1914, when the war was beginning, he was 5 years old. His father signed up into the army and went to the war.
The boy was growing a little, started to go to school, became to help his mother and enjoyed reading his favorite book about Robinson Crusoe. He started to get money by cleaning shoes in the King's Cross railway station.
He was missing his father. His mother told him that his father fulfills a secret mission for the government. But one day he saw his father's name in the list of a doctor from the hospital. And the boy decided to save his father.
You must be sure that everything is going be fine at the end. Because «he'd done it for the best reason in the world: for love».
This novel is a very good book. I recommend it.