Summer of the Zeppelin - Puffin Books Author:Elsie McCutcheon It's 1918, and Elvira Preston is missing her father who is at war in France. She determines to find an escape from her small Suffolk village, and discovers a ruined house in the woods, where she and her friend Clarry decide to make a hide-out. However, things don't happen as she expects and the summer becomes a very memorable one for her.