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Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324019735
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Sparrowhawk written by Natasha Farrant and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Costa Children's Book Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year In the aftermath of World War One, everyone in the small town of Barton is rebuilding their lives. Ben needs to find his brother, Sam—who was wounded in action and is now missing—if he wants to avoid being sent to the orphanage. Lotti’s horrible aunt and uncle want to send her away from her beloved home to boarding school, just when she has successfully managed to get expelled from her last one. When a chance encounter brings the two children together, each recognizes the other as a kindred spirit. But just as they’ve found their feet, disaster strikes, and Ben and Lotti must run away. They hatch a plan to cross the English Channel on Ben’s narrowboat, the Sparrowhawk, and track down Sam in France. But there’s something in France that Lotti is looking for, too. . . . Funny, heartwarming, and wise, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk is full of high stakes, twists and connections, and—most of all—adventure.

Jack Frake

Author : Edward Cline
Publisher : MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931561211
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Jack Frake written by Edward Cline and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Sparrowhawk series of historical novels, introducing readers to life in eighteenth-century England, where rumblings of discontent amongst the citizens with government and Crown begin. Jack Frake is no exception to this endemic restlessness. From an early age, Jack Frake develops an independent mind and spirit, traits that are not openly welcomed by all for someone of his lowly class. Fate and circumstance lead him to join a band of smugglers and he faithfully furthers their cause. Jack eventually departs for the American colonies aboard the Sparrowhawk, destined for Virginia. He sets out to rescue his friend from the constable's jail, but instead of saving his friend, he finds his own life in danger.

The Children of Castle Rock

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057132357X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Children of Castle Rock written by Natasha Farrant and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Trinians and Lauren St John collide in this hilarious and thrilling bestselling adventure from Natasha Farrant! When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it's nothing like she imagines. Run by the mysterious Major, there are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme survival than maths or English! Then Alice's dad goes missing and she must run away to find him. Can she persuade her new friends to help? So begins an epic quest across wild Scottish highlands and islands, where friendships will be made and broken, lies will be untangled and the children will face danger and excitement at every turn . . . Both hilarious and heartfelt, this is the classic adventure story brought bang up to date, and told in Natasha's inimitable voice. 'Thrilling adventure.' The Times 'This wise and touching novel has originality and a fresh voice.' Sunday Times 'A gripping adventure . . . I stayed up all night reading it!' Emma Carroll, author of Letters from the Lighthouse

The Secret Starling

Author : Judith Eagle
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536218413
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Starling written by Judith Eagle and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tattered ballet slipper found under the floorboards of Braithwaite Manor may be the key to Clara’s sinister family secrets in this delightful, lightly Gothic mystery for fans of Maryrose Wood and Claire Legrand. Clara Starling lives a life of dull rules, deadly routine, and flavorless meals under her cold uncle's strict regime—until the day Uncle disappears, leaving Clara alone in his old mansion. When streetwise orphan Peter and his rescue cat arrive unexpectedly, the children seize the chance to live by their own rules. But when the pair’s wild romps through the halls of Braithwaite Manor reveal a single, worn ballet slipper, they are hurled into a mystery that will lead to London’s glittering Royal Opera House and the unraveling of twisted Starling family secrets of poison, passion, and murder. Diabolical villains, plucky orphans, and glamorous ballet stars populate this absorbing adventure with a classic feel.

Aimee and Pippa

Author : Henry Sparrowhawk
Publisher : Fetish World Books
ISBN 13 : 9781904086918
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Aimee and Pippa written by Henry Sparrowhawk and published by Fetish World Books. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday, Pippa and Clara were free. Today the pretty blonde twins are slaves, kneeling terrified, naked and ashamed at their masters' feet, together with their mother Annamarie and their friend Aimee. Their fate is to be transported beyond the borders of the Empire, beyond any hope of rescue, and sold in the slave markets of the rogue planet Akkadis, notorious for its slave brothels, breeding farms, harems, and its barbaric Arena. It is the year 2999. On the borders of Man's vast Empire, the Atkoi tribes, human but long since reverted to barbarism, are preparing for war. As a weak emperor tries in vain to appease them, an interstellar passenger liner is boarded, looted and plundered. The most beautiful young women aboard, including Pippa and Clara Warburton and Aimee Pembroke, are spared - if 'spared' is the correct word. They begin a nightmare voyage to Akkadis. There they are paraded and exposed for sale in a humiliating public slave auction. They are trained to obey and serve their new masters and then sold, either to primitive desert tribesman or the planet's infamous 'pleasure houses' where slave girls dance naked on the stage for the leering audience and entertain customers upstairs for the price of a few solidi... and those who fail to meet their 'sales targets' face painful, public and humiliating discipline on the dreaded weekly Entertainment Night for the amusement of the baying audience. No allowance is made for shy, modest girls, new to the collar. To survive, they will learn to submit, and obey, and to please their new masters. There is only one man who can save them. His name is Scamander: Archpriest Peter Scamander. Scamander is on Akkadis on the Emperor's business, but he has reasons of his own for ignoring the girls' plight. They soon realise they are the helpless pawns in a power game, victims of a betrayal of cosmic proportions. But Akkadis holds a dark secret which may offer the girls a glimmer of hope - a chance for freedom and revenge - if they dare to seize it. Sometimes the best weapons of the weak are the mistakes of those who think they are strong.

Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 1324015578
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror written by Natasha Farrant and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a princess excellent? Eager to learn the answer, an enchantress casts her magic mirror into our universe. Reflected in it are princesses from around the world and across centuries who refuse to be pretty, polite, and obedient. Princess Leila of the desert protects her people from the king with the black-and-gold banner; Princess Tica takes a crocodile for a pet; Princess Ellen explores the high seas; Princess Abayome puts empathy and kindness above royal beauty; and in an apartment building, a girl named Princess saves her community’s beloved garden from the hands of urban developers. These girls are fierce, brave, and determined to do the rescuing themselves. Connecting their stories is the magic mirror, which reveals itself when each girl needs it most, illuminating how a princess’s power comes not from her title or looks, but from her own inner strength. These beautifully imagined stories, complemented by vibrant and inviting artwork, are by turns charming and bold, familiar and surprising.

The Girl Who Talked to Trees

Author : Natasha Farrant
Publisher : Zephyr
ISBN 13 : 9781800242241
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Talked to Trees written by Natasha Farrant and published by Zephyr. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Leopard and the Cliff

Author : Wallace Breem
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281028
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Leopard and the Cliff written by Wallace Breem and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic military adventure: a gripping tale of honour, duty, and sacrifice during the Afghan war of 1919 in British India. 'A writer who never disappoints one. He has an extraordinary power of treating military disaster in depth and yet with pace, whether on the frontiers of Rome or British India, and of analysing the tensions of command. Gripping as an action story, deeply moving on the individual level, it involves one as an eye-witness from beginning to end.' Mary Renault This classic military adventure is a gripping insight into life on an exposed outpost of the Afghan frontier. Major Charles Sandeman is an unlikely hero: an intellectual soldier, repeatedly passed over for promotion in the British Indian Army. When war suddenly erupts between India and Afghanistan in 1919, Sandeman is caught, as the locals say, 'between the leopard and the cliff'. Facing an uprising of hostile border tribes and mutinies, he must rise to the challenge and lead the retreat of his soldiers in a bleak trek through unforgiving terrain. Brimming with action, suspense, and psychological power, The Leopard and the Cliff is a masterful military adventure which has never felt more prophetic, offering insights into colonialism and tribal divides that haunt the world today. 'Gripping ... Brings out movingly and with skill points of vital importance to an understanding of British India and the Frontier ... Highly dramatic.' Philip Mason

The Witch's Daughter

Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287085
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Witch's Daughter written by Nina Bawden and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Scottish island of Skua, friendship develops between the lonely and mysterious Perdita and a blind girl, Janey. Both possess a kind of second sight - Janey's is the ability to hear, feel and remember more than others, and Perdita's is the ominous legacy of her being a witch's daughter. When Janey's brother, Tom, starts investigating a cluster of mysterious events and suspicious characters, all three become entwined in an adventure of hidden jewels, desperate criminals and dangerous detection. Written in 1963, The Witch's Daughter showcases Nina Bawden's innate regard for the integrity of her young characters. As she has said: 'I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.' Hugely admired on publication by both reviewers and readers, it was described as 'thrilling' by the Times Literary Supplement.

Imperial Vancouver Island

Author : J. F. Bosher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450059627
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Vancouver Island written by J. F. Bosher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.

In the Wake of the War Canoe

Author : W. H. Collison
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the War Canoe written by W. H. Collison and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In the Wake of the War Canoe" by W. H. Collison. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Passing of a Race and More Tales of Western Life

Author : David Williams Higgins
Publisher : Toronto, William Briggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passing of a Race and More Tales of Western Life written by David Williams Higgins and published by Toronto, William Briggs. This book was released on 1905 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glyphs and Gallows

Author : Peter Wilton Johnson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781895811940
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Glyphs and Gallows written by Peter Wilton Johnson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, Peter Johnson went looking for a rare set of petroglyphs located on the outer coast of Vancouver Island near an abandoned whaling village. Encouraged by archival research that yielded court records, 90-year-old correspondence and a tantalizing 1926 newspaper article, Peter sought to tie these glyphs to the 1869 wreck of the trading barque John Bright and the bizarre colonial trial that followed. He found more questions than answers. Why, for example, were two Nuu-chah-nulth men so readily hung from a gallows erected in front of their village at Hesquiat? And how did this event relate to the rock carvings that Peter knew existed in a cove many miles south, along the life-saving West Coast Trail by the Graveyard of the Pacific? This story explores the significance of particular petroglyphs, colonial injustice and the European trading mentality on the west coast at the time of contact. Peter interweaves a personal journal with historical narrative in order to produce a lively account of the relationship between our coastal history and a little-known Aboriginal art form.

In the Wake of the War Canoe

Author : William Henry Collison
Publisher : London : Seeley, Service & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the War Canoe written by William Henry Collison and published by London : Seeley, Service & Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Week at World's End

Author : Emma Carroll
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571332846
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Week at World's End written by Emma Carroll and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hotly anticipated new standalone from the bestselling and award-winning Queen of Historical Fiction, Emma Carroll. Britain, 1962 'Who are you?' I asked. 'You don't know who I am? You mean, it's not been on the news?' The girl glanced from Ray to me and back again. 'It's better I don't tell you,' she said firmly. Nothing ever happens in World's End Close. So when Stevie discovers a runaway girl in her coal shed, the first thing she does is fetch her best friend, Ray. Both are dying for a bit of adventure, and when the girl begs for help, they readily agree. Yet they soon realise they've taken on more than they bargained for. The girl, Anna, reveals she's on the run from people who are trying to poison her. Meanwhile, on the news, the Americans and Russians are arguing over missiles in Cuba. As the threat of war grows, Anna's behaviour becomes more mysterious. And when Stevie unearths a dark family secret, she wonders if Anna has come to World's End Close on purpose, with a special message just for her . . . An enthralling thriller, perfect for our tumultuous times. 'The Hilary Mantel of children's fiction.' The Telegraph 'Rightfully owns the title "Queen of Historical Fiction".' BookTrust 'Historical fiction at its finest.' Bookseller 'Echoes of Michael Morpurgo and Nina Bawden.' The Times

Cape Cod's Oldest Shipwreck

Author : Mark C. Wilkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238448
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod's Oldest Shipwreck written by Mark C. Wilkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wilkins’ flowing text carries readers along on a marvelous journey, offering greater insight . . . into the challenges of 17th century travel” (The Barnstable Patriot). In 1626–27, the Sparrow-Hawk began her final journey across the brutal winter waves of the Atlantic Ocean, departing from the southern coast of England with America as her goal. As cases of scurvy and whispers of mutiny rose, the hopes of those aboard the small vessel began to fade. The ever-changing coastline of Cape Cod caused the Sparrow-Hawk to run aground. Desperate to repair their ship and attain their goal of becoming wealthy Virginia tobacco planters, the passengers wrecked her again, forcing them to abandon their beloved ship and take up residence in Plymouth Colony. Revealed by the tides over two hundred years later, the wreckage was pillaged by local scavengers and put on display in Boston. Join Mark Wilkins as he delves into the secrets of the Sparrow-Hawk. Includes photos!

The Mayflower

Author : Kate Caffrey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442242493
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Mayflower written by Kate Caffrey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ship itself was obscure and small, valued at a mere 128 pounds, eight shillings, and fourpence. Each passenger had a total area the size of a single mattress under a five-foot ceiling in which to cook, eat, sleep, dress and all the rest of living. During the months-long journey, one Pilgrim died. Another, washed overboard, was miraculously washed back on deck. A crew member, not so fortunate, perished. The landing at Plymouth was on the morning of Monday, December 11, 1620. Ahead of this brave band lay a harsh winter, which robbed more than half the settlers of their lives. When spring came at last, 54 people were left, 21 of them under sixteen. But when the Mayflower sailed back to England, not one survivor asked to return. The men and women of the Mayflower did not come seeking fame or profit. They sought—and found—peace. The agreement they drew up before landing was described by John Quincy Adams as “the first example in modern times of a social compact or system of government instituted by voluntary agreement conformable to the laws of nature, by men of equal rights and about to establish their community in a new country.” This book reconstructs the voyage that linked European civilization and America, the facts behind what was to become the first legend of the American people, a pioneering journey that took nearly four centuries to come to life as it does in these pages.