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The Great Phoenix of London
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Galvin’s extraordinary novel about the 1666 Great Fire of London, a boy and a phoenix, has all the hallmarks to become a children’...Read Review
Nush and the Stolen Emerald
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Like the start of a Bond movie, the reader is swept into this story as Anushka races bare-back through the Indian desert dawn ...Read Review
The Undying of Obedience Wellrest
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In the spring of 1832, there is unrest in the graveyard tended by an ancient, sick sexton and his fifteen-year-old grandson, Ned. By day ...Read Review
Vita & the Gladiator
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It is not that long ago that young girls who loved history were hard-pressed to find a thrilling historical adventure story with an ...Read Review
Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Fourteen-year-old Winifred Weatherby is a brilliant inventor, just like her father. She really wants to win the Petit Prix at a science convention ...Read Review
The Wall Between Us
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This novel begins with the sudden, shocking building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, an event that brings danger and terror for many, including ...Read Review
Call of the Titanic
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
It’s 1912, and Clara Scott is twelve years old. She lives in New York and is fascinated by her cousin, Harold Cottam’s ...Read Review
Nisha’s War
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March 1942, and Nisha Barrow and her mother are the only people to alight from the train at Bealmouth, Northumbria, UK. It’s dull, ...Read Review
The Secrets Act
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It’s wartime England, and two young women meet at top secret codebreaking base Bletchley Park. Pearl is sixteen, local and working as ...Read Review
My Friend the Octopus
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Lindsay Galvin’s second middle-grade adventure, set in 1893, introduces talented artist, twelve-year-old Lavinia (Vinnie), as she helps in her aunt’s Brighton tearoom, ...Read Review