B for Buster

2.5 I was so excited for this story! A WW2 Story about a young Canadian boy who works with the air force. It was an interesting story with the direction that Ian Lawrence went with this story. I liked what he chose to focus on and how he went about it. I enjoyed how he showed the fear the men had and......more

12 July 2004 B FOR BUSTER by Iain Lawrence, Random House/Delacorte, June 2004, ISBN: 0-385-73086-1; ISBN Library: 0-385-90108-9 "In an upstairs room in Blackpool By the side of a northern sea The army had my father And my mother was having me Military madness was killing my country Solitary sadness comes......more

Tony L. Bombs Away Bombers have been used in warfare since the great WW1, and have been used and improved upon ever since, but they have just not appeared in real wars. They have been shown in movies and added in many war books, but have you ever read a book or seen a movie where they put you in the......more

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this book! Generally, wartime stories aren't interesting to me, no matter how well they are written, but this one was great! I especially liked the pigeoneer storyline and was genuinely invested in those birds. :)......more

B for buster is a fictional book about a young boy nicknamed “kakabeka” which he got because that is the name of his home town which he ran away from to enlist in the Air Force, but because of his age, he is not able to legally enlist. This is when he decides to run away from his home to travel hund......more