Pat Walsh
Beyond the Wall
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In 4th-century Roman Britain, 15-year-old Cassia is a slave in the household of Titus Cornelius Festus. After he tries to rape her, Cassia ...Read Review
Margot and Me
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Fifteen-year-old Fliss and her mother, who is recovering from chemotherapy, move to Wales to live with Margot, Fliss’s grandmother. Fliss finds her ...Read Review
A Most Magical Girl
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Twelve-year-old Annabel Grey is sent to stay with two great-aunts after her mother unexpectedly leaves home to go travelling. The old women are ...Read Review
The Emergency Zoo
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It is 1939 and Britain is about to go to war. Twelve-year-old Tilly and her friend Rosy spend the school summer holidays making a ...Read Review
Romans on the Rampage: Jail Break
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Krysis, the head of the Imperial Mint, is wrongly jailed for stealing from the mint. His family is made homeless and his son ...Read Review
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
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After seven-year-old Pierrot is orphaned, he is sent to live with his aunt Beatrix, leaving behind his home in Paris and his Jewish ...Read Review
Young Bond: Shoot to Kill
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
After being expelled from Eton, fifteen-year-old James Bond is sent to a new school, Dartington Hall, for all of twelve days. On arrival, ...Read Review
Whistling in the Dark
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Whistling in the Dark is a story of friendship and loyalty, set against the backdrop of the Liverpool Blitz. Thirteen-year-old Joan Armitage and ...Read Review
Freedom’s School
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Lizzie and her brother, Paul, are the children of freed slaves. Until the Emancipation Proclamation, Lizzie gets by on scraps of learning from ...Read Review
Rugby Rebel
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Thirteen-year-old, rugby-mad Eoin Madden returns to Castlerock boarding school in Dublin to start the new school year. He meets with old friends and ...Read Review
