One of the books I chose for my book fair is “Private Peaceful” by Michael Morpurgo. I've only read half the book and I find it quite interesting. It is set during the time of World War I and the author describes the main character, Tommo's past childhood and his current state in the war over time very well. The main characters of this book are Thomas Peaceful (Tommo), his brothers Big Joe Peaceful and Charlie Peaceful, his childhood friend Molly, his great aunt (aka grandmother) Wolf, and the owner of their property, The Colonel. All the characters are related to each other. At the start of the book, Tommo is a young man fighting in the trenches of the First World War and something terrible is going to happen to his brother that he can do nothing about. At that moment, he looks back on his childhood, trying to remember all the good memories, to stop thinking about what will happen. Tommo does this in the space of one night with a paragraph at the start of each chapter telling you what he's doing now, and Tommo remembers the rest....