Easy reading so far; good thing, as the pages number 401.
We open with a first person narrator, a 15 year-old boy who runs away from home. His mother long dead, his older sister–where?, but it is his father whom he doesn’t get along with well. He’s on a bus with money and supplies to start a new life someplace else. A friend named Crow has advised him to be tough. Is Crow real?
Chapter 2 switches to an earlier time, a teacher during the war. Out on a field trip with sixteen children who see a silver something–a B-29?–and reach the peak of a rounded hill, go off into the woods for mushrooms and fall unconscious to the ground. The teacher is alone.
Interesting. How will the stories tie together?
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology