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Brave
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Wendy Constance’s Brave was the winner of The Times/Chicken House prize, 2013, for an unpublished new children’s author. It is the ...Read Review
My Brother’s Secret
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12-year-old Karl Friedmann is proud to be a German and wants his country to win the war. He fully believes in Hitler’s ...Read Review
Valentine Joe
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A time-slip novel featuring a modern teenager and events from the First World War published that such a war ‘must never happen again.’ ...Read Review
Hitler’s Secret
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In a secret rendezvous at the Tower of London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets with Admiral Macpherson from British intelligence. It is June 1940, ...Read Review
My Friend the Enemy
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1941, a village in North-East England. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. Peter, aged twelve, playing in the woods, ...Read Review
Hitler’s Angel
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The exciting premise of this book is to take two German children who have escaped the Nazis and send them back into harm’...Read Review
The Crowfield Demon
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Set in an abbey in 1348, with a glossary explaining such terms as ‘triforium’ and ‘shawm’, there’s plenty of history here, but also ...Read Review
I Am the Great Horse
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This is the story of Alexander the Great as told by his warhorse, Bucephalus. It is also the story of Bucephalus’s devoted ...Read Review