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Chris Priestley

The Last of the Spirits

By Chris Priestley - Published 2014

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Victorian London, Christmas. Winter has the city in its icy grip. Thirteen-year-old Sam and his ten-year-old sister, Liz, are feral beggar children on ...Read Review

Mister Creecher

By Chris Priestley - Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Two outcasts inhabit London in 1818 – one of them 15-year-old Billy, a pickpocket and thief, the other a hulking creature given life by Dr. ...Read Review