Macmillan Children's Books

Delta and the Lost City

By Anna Fargher - By David Dean (illus.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The year is AD 79. Anna Fargher has made an interesting choice in that the story is narrated by Delta, who is a female ...Read Review

Escape to the River Sea

By Emma Carroll - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Rosa Sweetman is a young Jewish refugee, having come to England on the Kindertransport. Although she is happy at Westwood, a sprawling, dilapidated ...Read Review

The Swallows’ Flight

By Hilary McKay - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Three sets of characters (and a dog!) are introduced separately and we follow their lives in the years prior to World War 2 until, ...Read Review

The Fire Cats of London

By Anna Fargher - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a tale of the Great Fire of London retold from the point of view of a captured wild cat, Asta. Although ...Read Review

The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown

By Elizabeth Laird - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Brown family belongs to a Christian sect, the Lucasites. While the Lucasites are fictitious, Elizabeth Laird has drawn on her own 1950s ...Read Review

All These Bodies

By Kendare Blake - Published 2021

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Summer 1958, and the upper Midwest is plagued by serial murders. Every victim has been bled dry, but the scenes were “suspiciously clean of ...Read Review

Nathan Fox: Traitor’s Gold

By L. Brittney - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young AdultThriller

(1) 1587. King Philip of Spain rules much of Europe, and he has England in his sights. Two things are stopping him. One is the ...Read Review

Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times

By L. Brittney - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1587. England is on the brink of war. Philip of Spain has vowed to kill Elizabeth and restore Catholicism under his own rule. Sir ...Read Review