Chicken House

The Secret of Nightingale Wood

By Lucy Strange - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

A debut novel, this is a delightful tale of love and loss, family and friends, and mystery and magic. The story begins when ...Read Review

The Island at the End of Everything

By Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1902, Culion Island, the Philippines, once a leper colony. When twelve-year-old Ami, whose mother has leprosy, learns that a new Government ruling has decided ...Read Review

Black Powder

By Ally Sherrick - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a story inspired by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It centres on twelve-year-old Tom from Portsmouth, whose father is in prison in ...Read Review

Rose in the Blitz

By Rebecca Stevens - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Rebecca Stevens continues the adventures of her ‘Strange Girl’, Rose, in this sequel to Valentine Joe, set between the present day and war-torn 1940...Read Review

Longbow Girl

By Linda Davies - Published 2016

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

This is a story of Merry Owen of Wales, who must travel back in time in order to save her family’s heritage ...Read Review

Crow Mountain

By Lucy Inglis - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young AdultWestern

This is two stories, one set in the pioneering days of the Wild West in the 1880s concerning Emily, a cosseted 15-year-old sent ...Read Review

Darkmere

By Helen Maslin - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeTime-slip

This YA time-slip novel is a mixture of contemporary romance, horror/mystery and ghost story, moving between 1825 and the present day. In the ...Read Review

The Wolf Princess

By Cathryn Constable - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

A dreary English public school.  An orphan.  A neglectful guardian, a magical train, a boy with a crescent moon scar. The Wolf Princess ...Read Review

Winter’s Bullet

By William Osborne - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

In Amsterdam in 1945 as the war is ending, Tygo, the son of a locksmith, is forced by the Germans to break into houses ...Read Review

A Little in Love

By Susan Fletcher - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In 1832, Paris is a city in turmoil. The blood of young men – idealists and revolutionaries who wish for a fairer society – seeps into ...Read Review