“we’re here, we’ve arrived, this is our home for the future and we just have to make the best of things.”

foreseeable

desolate

chaos

lacquered
2.
“bruno thought about it and shook his head. ‘i don’t think so,’ he said with great "

conviction

sing-song

muster

overawe
3.
“’bruno’s not nine, he’s only six,’ said one particular monster over and over again in a voice, dancing around him and poking him in the ribs.”

sing-song

chaos

chain gang

courgette
4.
“the walls were hardly visible; instead they were covered with dark shelves, all lined with books, like the ones in the library at the house in berlin.”

muster

customary

mahogany

desolate
5.
“he couldn’t think of anything though. in fact over the last few days he had behaved in a perfectly decent manner to everyone and couldn’t remember causing any at all.”

chaos

overawe

conviction

desolate
6.
“what are you doing? ” he asked in as polite a tone as he could for although he wasn’t happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions, his mother had always told him that he was to treat maria respectfully…”

overawe

muster

desolate

moor
7.
“there was a garden directly beneath bruno’s window…full of flowers which grew in neat orderly sections in soil that looked as if it was tended very carefully by someone who knew that growing flowers in a place like this was something good that they could do, like putting a tiny candle of light in the corner of a huge castle on a misty on a dark winter’s night.”

courgette

banister

moor

chaos
8.
“’and our family is here, bruno. at out-with. this must be our home.’”

foreseeable

ergo

dismissively

customary
9.
“he made his way up the stairs slowly, holding on to the with one hand, and wondered whether the new house in the new place where the new job was would have as fine a to slide down as this one did.”

banister

courgette

mahogany

moor
10.
“’hello, father,’ said bruno quietly, a little by the splendor of the room.”

desolate

overawed

mustered

lacquered
11.
“’oh you’ll make other friends,’ said mother, waving her hand in the air as if the making of a boy’s three best friends for life was an easy thing.”

dismissively

ergo

conviction

customary
12.
“everywhere they looked they could see people…some stood perfectly still in were formed into a sort of and pushing wheelbarrows from one side of the camp to the ”

chain gang

chaos

courgette

sing-song
13.
“bruno turned the door handle and stepped inside and assumed his pose of wide-open eyes, mouth in the shape on an o and arms stretched out by his sides."

desolate

chaos

customary

conviction
14.
“his thick dark hair had obviously been recently and combed, and as bruno watched from above he felt both scared and in awe of him.”

foreseeable

customary

dismissively

lacquered
15.
“there were shops with bright store fronts, and fruit and vegetable stalls with big trays piled high with cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers and corn. some were overspilling with leeks and mushrooms, turnips and sprouts; others with lettuce and green beans, and parsnips.”

chaos

moors

courgettes

chain gangs