Ellie's Reviews > The Kingdom by the Sea

** spoiler alert ** Reading this book before teaching it with a year 5 class.. this book absolutely broke my heart. I really felt for Harry as the end of the book I feel should’ve been extremely happy… he finds his family after believing they’ve all been killed. But is he really happy?
I feel his story followed his journey beautifully. This book goes through so many subjects from Harry’s utter heartbreak at the beginning believing his family have all been killed, to all the different character types he meets and it even touches upon sexual abuse. I wish I’d read this book when I was a lot younger, it has the power to really change a younger one’s view of what we have and what we don’t always have.