SOLVED. Fiction book about kids partaking in a simulation of WWII England (for a tv show?). Read around 2012. [s]

[Frog]

This is a fiction book aimed at kids that I read in 2012 ish. It features a group of modern day children that move to live with a strict farmer on a farm in a village set up to simulate England during what I'm pretty sure was WWII or just after. I have a feeling that they were taking part in a tv show.

One member of the group was a girl who was particularly dramatic and averse to activities they participated in. She was later revealed to be an actor sent in to make it interesting and stir up conflict.

There was one boy in the group who had a deep interest in this time period. However, he had a run in with one of the police officers and was disqualified due to some disagreement or inaccuracy relating to a badge or paperwork that either he or the officer had on them. Following this the other children decided those running the simulation were being unfair and refused to comply with it any further.

This revolt resulted in them spending the rest of the allotted time of the project living on set in modern clothing and socialising with the actors who were running the simulation.

I have tried searching for this and it either brings up children’s fiction set in WWII which this technically isn’t or the book ‘running out of time’ due to the simulated village element neither of which are what I am looking for.

I found this book in the classroom of a British primary school if that helps at all. Thanks for any knowledge anyone can offer.

[Reader in NJ]

Milk Eyed Mender wrote: "This is a fiction book aimed at kids that I read in 2012 ish. It features a group of modern day children that move to live with a strict farmer on a farm in a village set up to simulate England dur..."

Why three posts looking for the same book?

[Frog]

Reader in NJ wrote: "Milk Eyed Mender wrote: "This is a fiction book aimed at kids that I read in 2012 ish. It features a group of modern day children that move to live with a strict farmer on a farm in a village set u..."

Hi, sorry this is my first time using Goodreads and when I pressed post on the app it somehow triplicated it. I have deleted the extra ones :)

[Rainbowheart]

No worries. GR is glitchy, and it happens!

This book sounds really unique and memorable. I'm sure we can track it down.

Were the main characters teenagers or younger children?

[Frog]

Rainbowheart wrote: "No worries. GR is glitchy, and it happens!

This book sounds really unique and memorable. I'm sure we can track it down.

Were the main characters teenagers or younger children?"

From what I remember the kids were probably around 12 years old although I read it a long time ago.

[Genesistrine]

Not very helpful, but in case it gets mentioned it's not A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair by Nicholas Fisk, which is a future experiment involving children and WWII, but that's a group of kind-of-resurrected people kept in a single house under the pretext that it's WWII outside with a future boy, Brin, sent in to monitor them.

[Becca]

The TV Time Travellers by Pete Johnson?

[Reader in NJ]

Milk Eyed Mender wrote: "Reader in NJ wrote: "Milk Eyed Mender wrote: "This is a fiction book aimed at kids that I read in 2012 ish. It features a group of modern day children that move to live with a strict farmer on a fa..."

No worries! I can't help you with the title of this one. Good luck-I hope someone can identify it for you.

[Frog]

Becca wrote: "The TV Time Travellers by Pete Johnson?"


Omg this is it! Thank you so much Becca, I really enjoyed this book as a child but I've been looking for it for months and I was starting to think i'd made it up.

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