The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,[1] is a 2015 children’s historical novel published by Dial Books for Young Readers.

In September 1939, the British government begins to evacuate children in urban areas of England during World War II to escape, sending them to the countryside.

Susan Smith, who lives in a coastal village in Kent, is forced to take Ada and Jamie in, despite her aversion to caring for children.

Susan overcomes her reluctance to take care of the children, reading to them, making them clothes, obtaining crutches for Ada, and allowing Jamie to keep a cat she intensely dislikes.

Ada helps British troops evacuate across the English Channel from Dunkirk, and identifies an enemy spy, who is detained.

Ada is able to stay with Susan, but to continue caring for her brother she decides to move back to London with her mother, who believes that the capital will not be bombed anytime soon.