Armistice Runner

The World Wars have provided many an author with fodder for their fiction and there are some truly brilliant books out there as a result. The best are the ones that take a slightly different angle and explore one of millions of individual lives that were affected by those conflicts. 'Armistice Runne......more

Armistice Runner is about a girl named Lily who is a runner. She discovers her great-great-grandfather’s was diaries from WW1. He was also a runner who competed in fell-running races and this inspires her. Her gran has Alzheimer’s and these diaries help Lily to reconnect with her. The book ends with......more

The book Armistice Runner is about a girl called Lily who likes to run and she has a Grandma who is beginning to lose her memory. Lily has a great-great-grandfather who took part in the World War, she discovers that he wrote diaries when he was in the War and decided to read them. Towards the end of......more

I really enjoyed reading this book as it shows the connection people can have through story’s memory’s and sport/experiences. The book is really interesting as it shows light can come from dark, no matter who you are or where you come from you can be friends with anybody and that you can achieve any......more

In the book, Lily had always lost a race against a fellow racer called Abbie. Later, she went to her grandparents home knowing that her grandma has a disease that makes her forget things. When they arrived, she gave a red scarf to her grandma and went in. Her grandfather welcomed her as well. Lily t......more