from his home in london to live with his auntie Ivy because his mother is afraid of lossing him as the war becomes to get closer to london .mrs briggs doesn’t want to take any chancs on Johnny dying from the war. The other boys from johnny’s school treat him like dirt, they treat him like a homeless beggar. They abuse him in school and tease him out of school. During the first few week of johnny moving to cliffe he makes friends with a young girl named sarah . Johnny and sarah start playing in his auntie Ivys’ garden more and more and they become better and better friends untill sarahs father passed away from battle during the war.Johnnys relationship with his auntie alters through out this novel but it is mostly calm and positive . Johnny
