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Island
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Flora and Neil live on the very remote island of St Kilda. This story is about their lives there and how they felt about being moved to the mainland in 1930. Good if you like sea birds and true historical stories. |
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Dog
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Hal and Clay rescue a dog from the ice on the Thames. The story tells of their adventures as they try to earn enough money for the new dog tax so that they can keep her. At the same time they have to keep her safe from skinners who earn money selling dog skins, and avoid the packs of dogs which have been abandoned by their owners and are running wild. |
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Under the Hawthorn Tree |
It is the 1840's and Ireland is in the middle of a deadly famine. Eily, Michael and Peggy's parents go missing during a hopeless quest to feed their family. Faced with the awful reality that they must make it on their own, these three children courageously set out on a long and harrowing journey to Castletaggart - the home of their Great-Aunts, whom they know only through their mother's stories. If you enjoy Under the Hawthorn Tree, make sure you read books two and three of the Children of the Famine Trilogy: 'Wildflower Girl' and 'Fields of Home' |
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Farm Boy
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A young man tells how he has always loved visiting his grandfather’s farm and listening to his stories of the family and the farm in the past. Then his grandfather tells him a secret, which persuades him to stay on the farm longer than intended, and makes him change his mind about his future career. |
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Oranges in No Man’s Land
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This story is set in Beirut during the civil war in the 1970s. Ayesha is 10 years old and shares a room in a building in a battered street with her grandmother, her two younger brothers and several other homeless families. When her grandmother falls ill, the only way Ayesha can think of getting the medicine she needs is to go to their friend Doctor Leila, but she lives on the other side of the city, and Ayesha will have to cross no man’s land and go into enemy territory to find her. |
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King John and the Abbot
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King John, who is very greedy, sets the Abbot of Canterbury, who is very rich, three riddles. If the Abbot can answer them correctly he can keep all his money, if he can’t find the answers within three weeks he will be executed and the king will get the money. The Abbot cannot answer the riddles, but Jack, a poor shepherd who thinks a lot and has been told he looks like the Abbot, is sure he can, and offers to go to the king in his place. |
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