The Pied Piper

Nevil Shute

Original title: Pied Piper

first published 1941 Pan Books, 1965 paperback

Scholastic junior classics

The novel by Nevil Shute. As the German army overruns France. An old Englishman returning to Britain agrees to escort two children to London. Trains, buses, hotels fail him and each shift in his plans adds a new child until he and six children attempt to evade the Nazis and cross the English Channel.

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Pied Piper edition · 2018 · Independently Published · 9781983260018
Pied Piper edition · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299000766
Pied Piper (Vintage International) paperback · 2010 · Vintage · 320 pages · 9780307474018
Pied Piper edition · 2010 · Penguin Random House · 9781409087090
Pied Piper (Vintage Classics) paperback · 2009 · Vintage Classics · 320 pages · 9780099530220
Pied Piper edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781409087076
Pied Piper edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781409087113
The Pied Piper edition · 2002 · Scholastic Inc. · 78 pages
Pied piper edition · 2000 · House of Stratus · 272 pages · 9781842322789
Pied Piper audiobook · 1996 · Chivers Audio Books · 9780745162775
Pied piper edition · 1991 · Mandarin Paperbacks · 285 pages
Pied Piper audiobook · 1991 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736619004

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