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| Author | Kit Pearson |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Lisa Jager Lapointe |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Guests of War Trilogy |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Penguin Canada |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Pages | 246 pp |
| Followed by | Looking at the Moon |
The Sky is Falling is a 1989 young adult novel by Kit Pearson. It is the first novel in the Guests of War trilogy, which follows the lives of Norah and Gavin Stoakes after they are evacuated from England to Canada during World War II.
The novel won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children and the Geoffrey Bilson Award (for best Canadian work of historical fiction written for youth).[1]
- ^ Bainbridge, Joyce; Pantaleo, Sylvia Joyce (1999). Learning with literature in the Canadian elementary classroom. Edmonton: University of Alberta. p. 94. ISBN 0-88864-330-6. Retrieved 2 April 2009.