'Machine Gunners' by Robert Westall

Totally gripping. This Carnegie Medal winner will slam through your heart like a speeding bullet. It’s 1941. World War II is in full swing – and Chas McGill is loving it. Well, not the bombs. But the planes are great. And his war souvenir collection is nearly the best in Garmouth. Then Chas finds a crashed Heinkel bomber in the woods. The shiny machine gun is still intact – and the Nazi pilot is still alive. It’s Chas’s chance to capture a German prisoner and fight his very own war…