Ann Turnbull
The Messenger Bird
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Children/Young AdultMystery/CrimeThriller
his is a race-against-time mystery story in which three children have only a few days to solve a series of complex clues. It’...Read Review
The Girl in the Mask
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Sophia is an intelligent, energetic girl who reads Aphra Behn’s plays, rides horses and is a crack shot. She also has a ...Read Review
The Midnight Zoo
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In an unnamed East European country, during World War II, two young Roma brothers wander through a devastated landscape, looking for food and ...Read Review
The Double Life of Cora Parry
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
When orphan Cora’s brutal guardian dies, she imagines she will be free to do whatever she wants. Instead, she finds she is ...Read Review
Sigrun’s Secret
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Fifteen-year-old Sigrun has grown up happy in the belief that she knows all about her parents, Bjorn and Thora, and how they came ...Read Review
The Sacred Scarab
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This story is one of a series set in Ancient Egypt at the time of the New Kingdom. Hopi and Isis, brother ...Read Review
The Crowfield Curse
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Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime
This is a fantasy with an unusually realistic medieval setting. Will, an orphan who works as a servant at the abbey, is gifted ...Read Review
Prisoner of the Inquisition
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Set in 15th-century Spain at the height of the Inquisition, this novel skilfully weaves a complex plot of punishment, death and betrayal with ...Read Review
A World Away
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Set in the 1580s in England and Virginia, this is the love story of Nadie, a Native American girl from Secota, near Roanoke, ...Read Review
The Night of the Burning
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This novel tells the true story of Devorah and Nechama Lehrman, the only survivors of a massacre of the Jews in their Polish ...Read Review
