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Michael Morpurgo
206 p
Summary: Cessie had never seen her grandfather, until the day he turns up on the doorstep out of nowhere. The old man has a stroke, and although he recovers, he has lost his memory. Popsicle is impossible to live with - moody, forgetful, clumsy. So when he is sent off to Shangri-La, an old people's home, Cessie is determined to help him escape and to unravel the truth of his past. A past that comes to him only in glimpses - a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, and a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II. Gradually, Popsicle recovers his memory and, with Cessie's help, realises a dream by taking the residents of Shangri-La on an adventurous journey across the channel in his lifeboat