The Guardian award-winning novel about courage, friendship and war. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever? * A major re-launch of our classics list will showcase HarperCollins' rich publishing history and bring timeless stories to a new generation of readers * This classic Robert Westall title is now part of the Essential Modern Classics branding, with extra material at the back of the book * The Kingdom By The Sea won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award on its publication in 1990. It was also Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal * From the author of the classic title The Machine Gunners.