The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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then added, “It’s a clubfoot.”Grimes didn’t offer to fix it. He nodded and said, “I’ll give you a ridehome in the car, then.”Grimes took me home very nicely. He thanked me for helping “MissMargaret.” I told him I was glad to, especially since it meant I got to ride sucha big fancy horse. He laughed a bit at that, and patted my hand, which wasodd but okay with me. I felt completely happy as I went through the frontdoor. I was totally unprepared for Miss Smith’s rage.
She came at me like a small yellow-haired witch, eyes blazing. “Where haveyou BEEN?” she shouted. “I’ve nearly gone to the police. Pony’s in the fieldwith a bridle on, you’re nowhere. It’s almost four o’clock. What on earth wereyou thinking?”She came toward me. I ducked, my arms around my head. “I’m not goingto hit you!” she roared. “Though I feel like it. You half deserve a whipping,making me worry like that.”Worry? Worry the way I worried over Jamie, in London? I dropped myhands to my lap—I’d sat down in one of the purple chairs—and stared at her,perplexed.“I know you don’t like strangers,” she said, more quietly. “I couldn’timagine a reason you’d go into town. I didn’t think you’d go to the airfield,but I went there to ask anyway, and they hadn’t seen you. Here it’s the firsttime I left you alone—I couldn’t imagine what could go wrong. I didn’t haveany idea where you could be.”“I thought I was allowed to go outside,” I said. My foot hurt, worse than ithad for days. I hadn’t walked so far without my crutches since I’d first comehere. I had a scratch down my arm too, that had left a thin trail of blood.“You can’t leave without telling me,” Miss Smith said. She looked lessangry, but still unpredictable. “You’ve got to let me know where you go.”How could I have done that? “I had to help Maggie,” I said. I told herabout the horse, how the plane spooked it, how Maggie fell.Miss Smith snorted. “Maggie? Who’s Maggie?”I tried to explain. I told about the big horse, and the house and stables.“The Honorable Margaret Thorton?” Miss Smith asked, her eyes widening.“Lady Thorton’s daughter?”I shrugged. “I suppose. She’s got a brother called Jonathan.”“The girl we met with Lady Thorton, last week in the market?”I nodded.Miss Smith sat down in the other chair. “The whole story,” she demanded.
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“Ada! Get back from that window!
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if I went downstairs again. That wa
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I began that very day. I pulled mys
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on the street, and then marched him
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frightened. I felt grateful, that I
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Page 34 and 35: In the morning we slept until the s
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Page 44 and 45: Up until then, that morning, I’d
Page 46 and 47: Finally I said, “Miss? What’re
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Page 54 and 55: the strange food, though the only w
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Page 58 and 59: “No—well, yes,” Miss Smith sa
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Page 62 and 63: rough patches on my skin, and my he
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Page 66 and 67: called her Maggie. “Maggie, hang
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Page 84 and 85: The very next day, before Jamie wen
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“Your mam ain’t come for you?
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looked at her, and I said, “Maybe
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like to break tradition. “But tha
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Maggie won, but not by much, and I
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for all of us.”We took the tree i
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“Aye,” Fred said, nodding, as t
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made it for you. Bottle green velve
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I didn’t know what Susan had said
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I shrugged her away. It was too muc
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In January rationing began. It was
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wind blew the wisps of hair around
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“What are you thinking?” she fi
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She couldn’t take care of me. She
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Stephen said there was a new poster
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“Yes, that’s her public face. I
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6) Do not spread rumors.7) Lock awa
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We woke to a vicious pounding on th
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days without food or water.The men
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called for tea. Daisy and I brought
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“. . . things worse than bombs,
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little bit more. She put her arm ar
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blanket. Susan wrapped me in it the
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creased with worry.
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You could get used to anything. Aft
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The man blinked.I said, “I would
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have believed you,” he said. “I
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that evening, while we were still e
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Mam.I didn’t know what to think.
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arm. “I’ll keep it for you, Jam
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worked. “Plus it got me away from
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Jamie said, “What happened? Why
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and he closed his mouth on his word
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“I could get my foot fixed,” I
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flats, rushing down with bedding in
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A restaurant near the train station
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A blur of gray fur streaked out of
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