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Sally Nicholls

The Silent Stars Go By

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2022

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Yorkshire, England, 1919. Just after the end of World War I, nineteen-year-old Margot Allen is working in Durham as a typist but comes home ...Read Review

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2017

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Children/Young Adult

Sally Nicholls’ latest young adult novel is a detailed and vivid account of three young women in Edwardian England, connected by their interest ...Read Review

All Fall Down

By Sally Nicholls - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1349. Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family live in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn. Farming is Isabel’s whole life, but that is about to ...Read Review

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The Silent Stars Go By

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All Fall Down

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