Listen to the Moon Alfie and his father find a girl abandoned on an island and bring her home for the family to care for. Alfie’s mother, Mary, looks after the girl as best she can. The girl will only say one word - ‘Lucy’, so that is what they call her. She is visited by Dr Crow, who checks on her health. This is an extract from the headmaster Mr Beagley’s school log book: “Monday 13th September 1915 There is one new pupil in the school this term. She is known as Lucy Lost, and is thought to be about twelve years old, a child of obscure and dubious origins, having been found neglected and abandoned on St Helen’s some four months ago. She is being cared for by Mr and Mrs Wheatcroft of Veronica Farm on Bryher. She came to school late, and on horseback, having refused to take the boat from Bryher with the other children. Lucy Lost is, I fear, likely to prove a most troublesome and disruptive pupil. She is a surly child, with the wild, unkempt look of a waif and stray. She will need to learn some manners, to do as the other pupils do. She does not speak. It seems she cannot, or will not. I suspect the latter. She does not, or will not, write either. Since she is so woefully backward and so clearly incapable, I have seen fit to place her with the Infants in Miss Nightingale’s class, until she can learn to speak and write as befits one of her age.”
Michael Morpurgo Month 2020: Listen to the Moon Worksheet
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