The Machine Gunners

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The adventures start in Garmouth, a town in England, when Chas finds a machine gun from a dead German bomber. The story is excitingly fast and fun, but more than that, it can teach you a lot. On one level this is an exciting story of how a group of children overcome all kinds of difficulties to pursue their project. Chas and his chosen friends build a warren of air-raid shelters connected by tunnels, with a machine-gun emplacement, in the derelict garden of a bombed-out house. Apart from dealing with suspicious parents and the class bully, the children also deflect the interest of the police and the Home Guard, who would like to recover the machine-gun, if only they could find it. urn:lcp:machinegunners00west_2:epub:275f6d8f-4e32-4591-8f33-987290a59c9c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier machinegunners00west_2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj25n5p Invoice 11 Isbn 9780140309737 A boy's dream, becomes a nightmare. Well, perhaps his dream was a nightmare all along. Chas McGill is about thirteen in 1940. He lives in a small Tyneside town, in the industrial north-east of England, which is subjected to terrible bombing raids. The tea-time call-out is the worst. The air-raid siren goes just as supper is dished up and everyone must run for the Anderson shelter. Do you take your egg and chips with you or leave them until later? Sometimes you are in the shelter all night. Do you lie awake all night wondering if there's going to be a direct hit? Or do you fall into an uneasy sleep at last? And when you come out in the morning, how do you feel when you see that your friend's house simply isn't there any more? Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

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The children work on the base a lot, and make many improvements to it. They steal and scavenge. Cem gets blueprints for the machine gun, and finds out how to work it. It Works Better with Bullets: After surrendering to what he thinks is a group of soldiers armed with a machine gun, Rudi is annoyed to find it's a bunch of kids whose machine gun doesn't work. I got this book from the book shelves in my class. I chose this book because it had an appealing title and I like war-time stories.Pupils will encounter language with which they may not be familiar in this text. For example, language relating to warfare, or language that may have dropped out of common usage or that is part of a regional dialect. The class could dedicate a section of a working wall to collecting examples of vocabulary used in the narrative with which they are unfamiliar. They can look up the definitions online or in a dictionary and this could provide a starting point to explore the morphology and etymology of certain words.

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall (9781447284161

The Machine Gunners in libraries ( WorldCat catalog) —immediately, a US edition with library summary No Communities Were Harmed: Garmouth is a fairly obvious version of real North Eastern town, Tynemouth, where Westall was born and raised. At least, to anyone familiar with the area. The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975. Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain (February 1941), it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner. The author also wrote a play based on the book, and others have adapted it for television and radio. A sequel, Fathom Five, set two years later, was published in 1979.Over the top" / by an American soldier who went, Arthur Guy Empey, machine gunner, serving in France; together with Tommy's dictionary of the trenches; 16 illustrations and diagrams Angels and Heroes The Story of a Machine Gunner with the Royal Irish Fusiliers August 1914 to April 1915 Gun Stripping: At one point the children strip the gun down, and then realise they don't know how to reassemble it. But, at the same time, you would have to admit it made an impact, left a mark, spoke to the young me in ways I probably couldn't quite understand. If you like the idea of children taking on adults, and beating them at their own game, you might like to look at this one by Robert Swindells:

The Machine Gunners, First Edition: Books - AbeBooks The Machine Gunners, First Edition: Books - AbeBooks

the language layout, it was like old English, for example Yee harty ol' feed. insted of what we say now ' mean harty feed bro '

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chas is my favorite character because he is outgoing and he has a gun collection the second best in his school.