Alone On A Wide Wide Sea

This is a really good book split into two sides of the story the first is from a person called Arthur Hobhouse and the second is from his daughter Allie's.

Arthur Hobhouse tells the story of his life. His earliest memory was that he was an orphan from Bermondsey, in London, and that, at the age of six, in 1947 he was transported to Australia to find a new home. He is parted from his sister, Kitty Hobhouse, who he is not sure exists or not. He remembers the time of their parting, at the docks in Liverpool, when she gave him a key, which he calls his lucky key and wears from that day on. He boards the ship and leaves for the country that is to be his home for the rest of his life. Arthur makes friends with a boy called Marty and they both get sent to a farm run by a couple called Mr Bacon and Mrs Bacon. Mr Bacon is mean, selfish, and loud and thinks he is kind but he is not.Mrs Bacon is kind and caring but is completely under her husbands power.

Book 2 -Allie
Allie goes on the search for Kitty, setting up the Kitty 4 website. The Kitty 4 boat is made so that when it is knocked over, it flips back up. It does exactly that. Allie sends emails to her family and during the quest, she finds that her grandpa and a scientist are above her in the sky, she finds out where Kitty is,. Soon she arrives at England meeting an old woman, who is Kitty. She takes the key, puts it into a music box, and it opens, singing London Bridge is falling down, one of Arthur's favourite songs.