The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips By Michael Morpurgo

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is a very particular historical novel set during the second world war in Slapton. It’s a story about Adolphus Tips, a cat that survives the war.
It’s 1943 and it’s wartime. However, life is pretty normal : a few fathers are away fighting and there are a few evacuees still in school, but that's about it. However, when the Americans arrive everything changes…His owner Lily , as well as many other people, is sent away from her house so that the Yanks can practice for the D-day landings.
Adolphus has no clue of what is going on, and he gets in trouble : he disappears!!! Lily is desperate, she’s scared that Adolphus might be killed or injured … So , she decides to become friends with some American soldiers who promise to help her find Adolphus Tips. However, the soldiers are always busy and she knows Adolphus can’t survive for long alone, with bombs flying everywhere. She then decides to risk her own life and cross the the wire in the danger zone to look for her adored cat…
Now, 60 years later, Michael is reading his Grandmother’s diary ( Lily) and he is discovering many things about the war and about “the amazing story if Adolphus tips”. He understands Adolphus was adventurous and brave, and he understands that he is very important because he still affecting his family’s lives after so many years.