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Book 3 in the Christie and Agatha's Detective Agency series! 'The
truth of the matter is that a number of valuable artefacts have
been stolen. There is a thief at the dig!' During the excavation of
an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, Christie and Agatha find themselves at
the heart of a mystery. Lord and Lady Carnarvon's dig is in
jeopardy unless the thief at the site can be found. But time is
quickly running out for the twins to wrap up the case and recover
Tutankhamun's treasures. About the Christie and Agatha's Detective
Agency series: It's not easy growing up in the 1920s. While
Christie can usually be found up a tree or trying a spot of amateur
engineering, her shy twin Agatha buries her nose in books and
dreams of being a writer. The pair couldn't be more different. But
when a scientific discovery goes missing, they find that together
they make a winning combination and Christie and Agatha's Detective
Agency is born. Join the twin detectives as they solve thrilling
mysteries all over the world!
Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the
bestselling author of When the Sky Falls: The Times Children's Book
of the Year, winner of a Books Are My Bag Readers Award, the
British Book Award for Children’s Fiction and shortlisted for the
Carnegie Medal. When Peggy saves a stray dog from near-death, a
beautiful friendship begins. Peggy and Beau are inseparable: the
only thing that can ever come between them is war. Peggy is
evacuated to the safety of the coast, but Beau is left behind in
the city, where he becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of
war heroes. Night after night, as bombs rain down and communities
are destroyed, Beau searches the streets, saving countless
families. But then disaster strikes, changing Peggy’s life
forever. With her parents killed, both she and Beau are left alone,
hundreds of miles apart. But Beau has a plan to reunite them at
long last . . .
Paisley 1876. 12-year-old Jim has escaped from the Poor House and
now he must save his little brother from the same fate. His only
hope lies in a mysterious family heirloom - a Paisley patterned
shawl that has five guineas sewn into its hem - the price of a new
life for Jim's family. Now he must find the shawl and steal it back
from the big house where the girl with the red hair lives... Two
different worlds collide in this gripping Victorian mystery as Jim
and Jessie unravel the past and its pattern of secrets...
Atlanta, now an experienced time traveller, is sent back in time to
be with the children working in the dust, danger and noise of a
cotton mill in the north of England in early Victorian times.
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR
BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *
From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee
comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group
of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose
lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of
World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in
Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a
family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens
whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of
Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into
desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to
hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and
injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Jamie Tate, a boy living on a farm in Essex, joins the growing band
of children who are sent back in time to witness history. Jamie
hates history, but when he finds himself in Roman Colchester in
AD60, he joins the petrified citizens in the temple of Caludius as
the Icenii, bent on revenge, attack.
Making friends with the sad and lonely Mary Queen of Scots in 1570
and playing a sinister game of hide-and-seek with Mary's guards in
the grounds of Chatsworth House, affects Jenny deeply and draws her
into the dangerous and addictive world of time travel.
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Giant
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Judith McQuoid
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Davy was too old for make-believe. Then he met Jacks.
A fictionalised exploration of the childhood of CS Lewis.
Davy, a working-class boy living in East Belfast in 1908, is sent to work at the wealthy Lewis household. When he meets Jacks – the name by which CS Lewis was known to friends and family – Davy is captivated by his friend’s world of books and stories. Together the boys plunge into imagining and adventuring, and Davy discovers his own artistic talent. But when Davy is offered a job at the shipyard, and Jacks’s mother falls gravely ill, their wondrous days of make-believe seem numbered. Will they lose their extraordinary shared world forever?
A thrilling Gothic tale from the author of Our Castle by the Sea,
shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. 'Told in
deft and luminous language, The Ghost of Gosswater is storytelling
at its very best.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE GIRL OF
INK & STARS 'Family secrets, a ghost girl and a forbidding
manor house that goes up in smoke ... You can't help rooting for
Agatha in this spooky, addictive tale of friendship and family.'
THE TIMES 'Eerie, shimmering, unputdownable' HILARY MCKAY, winner
of the Costa Book Award The Lake District, 1899 The Earl is dead
and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old
Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a
tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her
father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she
is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the
year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light
creeps through the crack in time; she will not rest until the dark,
terrible secrets of the past have been revealed ... The third novel
by acclaimed bestselling author Lucy Strange, author of The Secret
of Nightingale Wood and Our Castle by the Sea A thrilling gothic
adventure for young readers aged 9 and up - perfect for fans of
Emma Carroll and Frances Hardinge Follows strong-willed heroine
Agatha Gosswater as she untangles the dark mystery of her own past,
with the backdrop of the eerie Gosswater Lake
This series of hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads
of hapless figures from history in frazzling situations. Halfdan is
a 14-year-old boy living in Denmark in 1000 AD. His father wants
him to stay at home and learn how to carve wooden tools, but
Halfdan is determined to become a brave and strong Viking raider,
pillaging villages in England. Unfortunately, the raid is a
disaster, and Halfdan and his friend Astrid find themselves
embarking on an unexpected and perilous trip with the famous Viking
explorer Leif Erikson to a strange new land... 'Get Real' fact
boxes feature throughout, providing historical context and further
information, as well as a timeline, historical biographies and a
glossary in the end matter.
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Refugee
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Alan Gratz
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This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless:
courage, survival, and the quest for home. JOSEF is a Jewish boy
living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration
camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other
side of the world . . . ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots
and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a
raft, hoping to find safety in America . . . MAHMOUD is a Syrian
boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and
destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . .
. All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All
will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to
betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although
Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades,
shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end.
A thrilling and empowering WWII adventure about the French
resistance and their British allies, with a determined, Muslim
heroine. Perfect for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Emma Carroll, and
those looking for diverse historical fiction. July, 1941. Rosina
Raja is half-Indian and half-English. She has always lived in
India, so when her mother passes away and she moves to England
(where it rains all the time) she is miserable and doesn't have any
friends. Life changes dramatically for Rosie when she discovers
that her army captain father is actually a spy for the British
government. She can't bear to be left behind so she stows away in
his plane. Finding herself in occupied France, Rosie is soon drawn
into the struggle against the Nazis. With new allies and new
enemies at every turn, she must help her father complete his
mission, and more importantly... make sure they both get home
alive.
Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo,
servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most
difficult time of all. His Master has been working on the "Last
Supper," his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But has
he finished it? He's barely started! The all-powerful Duke of Milan
is demanding that it be completed by the time the Pope visits at
Easter. And Giacomo knows that if Leonardo doesn't pick up his
pace, the Duke may invite a young genius -- Michelangelo -- to
finish the painting instead. Which means that Leonardo won't be
paid, which means that Milan's shopkeepers (to whom he owes massive
amounts) will take drastic measures against him.
It's all down to Giacomo, and whether he can come up with a
brilliant solution. And if he does, will his Master go for it?
After all, Leonardo still doesn't seem to trust him. He refuses to
teach Giacomo how to paint; he won't help him find his parents; nor
will he discuss the significance of the medallion, ring, and cross
that Giacomo was carrying when Leonardo found him. But with the
secret arrival of a powerful stranger, Giacomo is about to discover
much more than the answers he has been looking for. And he will
also receive an invitation to help arrange a meeting that could
change his life. . . and the future course of history.
With more twists and turns than a spiral staircase, this
thriller is as unique as its two heroes -- the most celebrated
artist who ever lived, and a young man without a past, who will
stop at nothing to find the truth about his life.
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