Ebook {Epub PDF} B for Buster by Iain Lawrence

B for Buster. by Iain Lawrence. With minimal personal fanfare, B.C. writer Iain Lawrence has established himself over the past five years as one of Canada’s most intriguing writers for young adults. Like Australian writer Ivan Southall, Lawrence launched his career with action-adventure stories for boys, then segued into darker, more complicated psychological territory. B For Buster is a WWII story of courage and duty. Kak has lied about his age and traveled half way around the world from Canada to be part of a Bomber Command squadron in Yorkshire. His excitement and dreams of glory are viewed with weary dismay by the veterans. The Halifax bomber, B For Buster is battered and patched together/5(18). Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless operator and sent to a squadron in England, where he’s unabashedly gung ho about flying his first op/5(3).

B for Buster. Iain Lawrence. Want to Read. B for Buster. Want to read; 30 Currently reading; Published by Laurel-Leaf in New York. Written in English Subjects: World War, -- Aerial operations, Canadian -- Juvenile fiction, Air pilots -- Juvenile fiction. Iain Lawrence is the best-selling author of such heralded books for young readers as Lord of the Nutcracker Men, which broached the complicated subject of human experience in war. His novels have been chosen as Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal on more than one occasion. Lawrence again contemplates war in this novel, set in , England. Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless operator and sent to a squadron in England, where he's unabashedly gung ho about flying his first op.

B For Buster by Iain Lawrence, B For Buster is a WWII story of courage and duty. Kak has lied about his age and traveled half way around the world from Canada to be part of a Bomber Command squadron in Yorkshire. His excitement and anticipation are viewed with weary dismay by the veterans. The Halifax bomber, B For Buster is battered and patched together. Nobody can tell them what happened to the previous crew, the flight engineer landed the plane and then died in the cockpit; the rest. B For Buster is a WWII story of courage and duty. Kak has lied about his age and traveled half way around the world from Canada to be part of a Bomber Command squadron in Yorkshire. His excitement and dreams of glory are viewed with weary dismay by the veterans. The Halifax bomber, B For Buster is battered and patched together. B for Buster by Iain Lawrence. Posted by Amy on Nov 5, in Book Reviews, British Columbia | 0 comments. Summary: Enlisting early in the air force at the age of sixteen to escape an abusive situation at home, Kak is in England and in over his head. As the wireless operator in a bomber plane during World War II, he is so traumatised by his first couple of times on the job bombing targets in Germany that he wants to quit.