When they return to the port, Popsicle and his son, Cessie's father, are finally reconciled. Turned away by his own son, Cessies long-lost grandfather. A past that comes to him only in glimpses - a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, and a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II.Gradually, Popsicle recovers his memory and, with Cessie's help, realises a dream by taking the residents of Shangri-La on an adventurous journey across the channel in his lifeboat. A gripping and heartfelt war story from Britains best-loved childrens author, Michael Morpurgo. So when he is sent off to Shangri-La, an old people's home, she is determined to help him escape and to unravel the truth of his past. Only Cessie loves him and is determined to help him escape and unravel the truth of his past. Turned away by his own son, Cessie’s long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most a nursing home called Shangri-La. Only Cessie loves him and believes in him. A gripping and heartfelt war story from Britain’s best-loved children’s author, Michael Morpurgo. Popsicle is impossible to live with - moody, forgetful, clumsy. A girl playing her violin notices an old man standing across the road from her house in the pouring rain. Doesn't that mean anything to you?' Cessie has never seen her grandfather, not even in photos, until the day he turned up on the doorstep out of nowhere.The old man has a stroke. Read this passage from Escape from Shangri-La by Michael Morpurgo and then answer the questions in the question paper. After all those years, he's found his son and you've found your father. 'He's got no one else.and nowhere else to go.
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