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Lucy Fitch Perkins
Expect a historical adventure centred on Sally and Roger, their mother’s efforts to protect gold, and the threat posed by approaching British forces. The book also foregrounds family loyalty, courage and a woman taking charge.
Cate Cain
This is a dark historical-fantasy adventure centred on a young servant confronting a powerful villain. Its strongest features are menace, an unusual supernatural premise and a friendship group helping one another through difficult circumstances.
John Flanagan
This is a mission-driven seafaring adventure in which a crew pursues a former rival who has become a pirate and slave trader. Friendship, courage and restored honour shape the action.
Jackie French
A sweeping historical adventure centred on Hekja’s resourcefulness, loyalty and determination to find a place in a world shaped by raids, journeys, service and competing forms of leadership.
Gary Paulsen
A tense frontier survival adventure in which three children evade outlaws, endure severe hardship and discover treasure. It offers resourcefulness, loyalty and historical setting alongside frightening danger, bereavement and family separation.
Catherine Johnson
Follow Nathaniel from a Jamaican plantation to England, where his belief that English soil means freedom is tested. His hopes for escape and his family’s future drive the story.
Daniel José Older
This is a fast-moving historical-fantasy adventure about children protecting one another amid riots, forced separation and racial injustice, with dinosaurs adding imaginative energy to a serious setting.
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