Rebecca Butler
Fallout
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The year is 1980; the place is a small Welsh village. Marcus Pritchard is thirteen and a reluctant criminal, albeit small-time. His whole family ...Read Review
Delta and the Lost City
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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
Shadow Creatures
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This novel spans a five-year period from 1940 to 1945 in Nazi-occupied Norway. Tove and Liva are sisters. They have an older brother, Hakken. How ...Read Review
Angel of Grasmere
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Tarn’s brother, Joss, is believed to have died in the retreat from Dunkirk. In this novel, set between 1940 and 1942, we find out ...Read Review
In Between Worlds: The Journey of the Famine Girls
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The year is 1845 in a small rural Irish village called Skibbereen. Margaret Gaffney and her brother, Sean, aged five, live with their parents ...Read Review
The Body in the Blitz (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This is the second instalment of Stevens’s new series The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, where the new incarnation of the Detective Society ...Read Review
A Drop of Golden Sun
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In 1973, twelve-year-old Jenny Crawford is about to undertake the final audition for a part in a film musical called The Music Makers, heavily ...Read Review
On Wings to the Stars
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Eliza is eleven, and she feels very alone. The one person she feels close to in her family is her great-grandmother, whom she ...Read Review
Rivet Boy
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John Nicol is twelve. He would rather stay at school until he is fourteen, the standard leaving age in 1888 Scotland. His father, died ...Read Review
The Grinning Throat (The Mudlark Mysteries)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Joe and Edie are poor children who have become Mudlarks, or scavengers for saleable detritus from the Thames river mud, a real occupation ...Read Review
