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Darwin’s Dragons
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This is an attractive, charmingly illustrated novel that succeeds in blending fact and information with fantasy. Everyone knows the story of Charles Darwin’...Read Review
The Ghost of Midnight Lake
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It is December 1899; a new century looms. Twelve-year-old Agatha, living in Gosswater Hall in the English Lake District and accustomed to expensive luxuries, ...Read Review
The Great Animal Escapade
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Manchester, England, 1872, the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. Danny, a young boy, used to live on the streets, surviving as a pickpocket. Now he ...Read Review
She Wolf
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It is the year 866 and a young Dane, Ylva (meaning ‘she-wolf’), finds herself orphaned in the strange land of Northumbria, after witnessing her ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Heroes
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1st-century AD, Rome. The power-crazed Emperor Nero is determined to get his hands on the fabled Golden Fleece, and his armed guards will ...Read Review
Lily and the Rockets
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Lily Dodd is proud to start working as a munitionette at the same factory as her father. Having left school, she feels finally ...Read Review
The Book of Boy
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1350. Boy is a hunchback. It is the only name he has ever known, apart from Monster. He tends a flock of goats in ...Read Review
The Buried Crown
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1940: Londoner, Charlie, has placed his young brother in the care of a farmer near the airbase where he is training to become a ...Read Review
Sky Chasers
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Annouay, France, 1783. Magpie is a guttersnipe and opportunist thief, struggling to support herself and her pet cockerel, Coco. When the unpleasant Madame Delacroix ...Read Review
Witchborn
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
1577. Elizabeth I has returned England to a moderate Protestantism. However, some think that her cousin, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, should be ...Read Review
