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The Elemental Detectives
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
A sleeping sickness has fallen across London, and the city’s elementals – spirits of Air, Water, Fire and Earth – worry that they will ...Read Review
The Diary of Sarah Forbes Bonetta
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1860, Kent, England, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta, African, orphan, protégé of Queen Victoria, and seventeen years old, begins writing a diary. At the ...Read Review
The Agency for Scandal
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If you fancy a rip-roaring YA adventure, look no further than this novel which features feisty Victorian heroine Isobel Stanhope. She’s leading ...Read Review
A Different Kind of Freedom: A Romani Story (Voices #7)
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The latest book in the Voices series, introducing diverse viewpoints into children’s publishing, tells the story of a Romani boy with a ...Read Review
We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me
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The arrival in Britain of people from the Caribbean on the ship the Empire Windrush has been the subject of several recent picture ...Read Review
Please Write Soon
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This is a story based on the family history of the writer, told mainly in a series of letters and set in 1946. Solomon ...Read Review
Lines of Courage
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This gripping WWI adventure weaves together the stories of five young people from different countries, whose lives are irrevocably changed by war. Austro-Hungarian ...Read Review
A Single Thread of Moonlight
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1886: a fortune is at stake. Eleven-year-old Iris Scott-Holland believes that her abusive step-mother has engineered her father’s death and now wants Iris ...Read Review
Evie’s War
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In the ancient whaling port of Whitby in 1914, as World War One is about to begin, all has turned bleak as Evie’s ...Read Review
In Harm’s Way: JFK, World War II, and the Heroic Rescue of PT 109
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Children/Young AdultNonfiction
For future president John F. Kennedy, the night of August 2, 1943 would cement his future as a war hero and leader. It would also ...Read Review