<Li> Kit Pearson's Guests of War trilogy, beginning with The Sky Is Falling (1989), chronicles the story of ten - year - old Norah Stoakes and her younger brother Gavin, who are evacuated to Toronto . </Li> <P> Novels for adults featuring evacuation and evacuees are: </P> <Ul> <Li> Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh, in which Waugh's anti-hero Basil Seal uses his position as Billeting Officer to extort bribes (for moving disruptive children elsewhere) from hapless and reluctant hosts . </Li> <Li> Noel Streatfeild's adult novel Saplings (1945) </Li> <Li> Connie Willis's two - volume novel, Blackout / All Clear (2010) has extensive chapters about a time travelling character from the future, a historian named Merope (she takes on the persona of Eileen O'Reilly, an Irish maid), who intends to study the impact of evacuation on the children . When she becomes stranded in the past, she eventually adopts two bratty children to raise herself . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh, in which Waugh's anti-hero Basil Seal uses his position as Billeting Officer to extort bribes (for moving disruptive children elsewhere) from hapless and reluctant hosts . </Li>

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