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Song Hunter
40,000 BC, and an Ice Age looms. The Stonemen, a small Neanderthal clan, have just killed a mammoth in preparation…
The Positively Last Performance
The Theatre Royal, Seashaw, has been closed for two years and mould is wreaking havoc with the décor. Only ghosts…
Smuggler’s Kiss
Set in the Georgian period, the story centres around wealthy 15-year-old Isabelle, who finds her circumstances dramatically changed and, in…
A Little Princess
London, 1905. Sara Crewe, heiress to a diamond mine, leaves India and her beloved Papa to go to Miss Minchin’s…
The Girl in the Mask
Sophia is an intelligent, energetic girl who reads Aphra Behn’s plays, rides horses and is a crack shot. She also…
Sigrun’s Secret
Sigrun’s Secret is a good read, particularly suitable for 12+ girls. Set in the Viking era, it focuses closely on…
The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles
It is pleasing to be able to report the re-issue of Rosemary Sutcliff’s trilogy, The Eagle of the Ninth, The…
The Museum’s Secret
Eleven-year-old Tom Scatterhorn has problems. His mother has gone to Mongolia to find his missing entomologist father, and Tom must…
Wolf Cry
In a village in Norway 880 AD, Toki, son of Jarl Ohthere, is left in charge of his village and…
Rowan the Strange
Rowan is a young boy with a particularly vibrant imagination, who spends life captivated within his own thoughts – in…
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