Barrington Stoke
The Accidental Vikings
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Alfie and Kat are ten in today’s world when they are accidentally transported back to the Viking era after getting separated from ...Read Review
Dance of Resistance: The incredible true story of Josephine Baker
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
A first-person narrative of the life of the Black dancer Josephine Baker, Dance of Resistance is a travelogue, biography and political statement all-in-one, ...Read Review
The Elixir
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The year is 1655. Twelve-year-old Isaac Newton, the future discoverer of the force of gravity, is lodging with Katharine and Ann Storer, daughters of ...Read Review
Becoming Grace
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Although the main action takes place in 1838, with the sinking of the Forfarshire, a new steamship, Hilary McKay introduces the reader to Grace ...Read Review
Angel of Grasmere
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Tarn’s brother, Joss, is believed to have died in the retreat from Dunkirk. In this novel, set between 1940 and 1942, we find out ...Read Review
The River Spirit
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Tom’s life as a Victorian chimney sweep takes a dramatic turn when he begins to see fairies in flowers, a soot monster ...Read Review
The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh’s Lunch
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Seth is always naughty, and he doesn’t like school. While waiting for a telling-off for his latest prank, he picks up a ...Read Review
Journey Back to Freedom: The Olaudah Equiano Story
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In 1756, an 11-year-old African boy is on guard in his village while his parents go to market. He spots slave traders who terrorise ...Read Review
The Battle of Cable Street
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In Stepney, London, in 2020, Elsie looks back on her youth in the 1930s, when Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists were ...Read Review
The Clockwork Queen
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18th-century St Petersburg, Russia. The autocratic Empress, Catherine the Great, has summoned the grandmaster of chess, Mr. Peshka, to teach her unstable son ...Read Review
