Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh’s Curse (Scholastic) is Laura Wood’s début children’s novel, for which she won the inaugural Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing in 2014. It tells the story of a little girl, Poppy, who was brought up in a circus after being abandoned there as a baby. But as she grows older, her …
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Out of Shadows
Jason Wallace(Andersen Press) 1983, Zimbabwe. The war has ended, Robert Mugabe is the new prime minister of a country and people reborn after many years of oppression. He is offering freedom and the hope for a future to the black communities. Robert Jacklin is a young English boy who has just arrived in the country, …