Elizabeth Hawksley
Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer
Paris, 1852. Henri Giffard, who works in a railway workshop, has invented an incredible new machine. It’s a hydrogen balloon…
Walter Tull’s Scrapbook
This is the true story of Walter Tull (1888-1918), the first professional Black footballer in the UK, who joined the…
India Dark
Melbourne, Australia, 1909. Thirteen-year-old Poesy Swift’s father has died and the family is on the breadline. She has two options:…
A Little Princess
London, 1905. Sara Crewe, heiress to a diamond mine, leaves India and her beloved Papa to go to Miss Minchin’s…
Eleven Eleven
November 11th, 1918, the last day of World War I. It is still night, and three young soldiers are on…
The History Keepers: Circus Maximus
Rome, AD 27. In their second time-slip adventure, Jake and the History Keepers find themselves in Ancient Rome. The evil…
Secrets and Shadows
1941. When twelve-year-old Grace Ryan’s Dublin home is bombed, she goes to live with her grandfather and uncle in another…
Egyptian Escape
In Charlie and his dog Bandit’s second time travel adventure, splendidly illustrated by Emma Dodd, Charlie finds himself in Egypt…
A Prayer for Blue Delaney
1950s Australia. Colm McCabe is one of thousands of children torn from their families in the U.K. and sent ‘for…
Dodger
London, 1840s. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is a ‘tosher’, scavenging in London’s old Roman sewers for a living. It is dark, dangerous…
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