Rebecca Butler
Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Fourteen-year-old Winifred Weatherby is a brilliant inventor, just like her father. She really wants to win the Petit Prix at a science convention ...Read Review
Safiyyah’s War
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This is a very unusual take on the events of World War Two. Safiyyah’s family are Muslims and therefore the story centres ...Read Review
Call of the Titanic
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
It’s 1912, and Clara Scott is twelve years old. She lives in New York and is fascinated by her cousin, Harold Cottam’s ...Read Review
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, 1)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This is the first in a new series starring May Wong as the protagonist. Regular readers of Stevens will recognise May as the ...Read Review
Friends and Traitors
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Sidney Dashworth is being evacuated with her school, St. Olave’s, located in Sussex, to Stanbrook House, a dilapidated country mansion owned by ...Read Review
Digging for Victory
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In this brilliantly engaging verse novel, twelve-year-old Bonnie is frustrated. Her brother, Ralph, is going off to fly for the RAF. Why does ...Read Review
The Mystery of Raspberry Hill
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Stina is a girl of about nine who comes from a large, poor family in Helsinki in 1920 and who has TB. She is ...Read Review
Midwinter Burning
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Alfie Wright is a young boy in Britain in 1939. He is, unlike many children, pleased to be evacuated as the reader gets a ...Read Review
Escape to the River Sea
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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 Ghost Garden
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In the summer of 1914 World War I is imminent. The protagonist Fran is the daughter of an under gardener at Longbarrow House, a ...Read Review
