Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Biography

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. She has spoken about being inspired by the real history of British child evacuation during WWII, and about wanting to explore what it would mean for a child to find war liberating rather than traumatic. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 2016 and spent years on bestseller lists. A sequel, The War I Finally Won, was published in 2017.

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