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Orphan Johnny Dunne has fled Balbriggan, where he spied for the rebels in Ireland's War of Independence. Now he has a new and even more dangerous mission. Rebel leader Michael Collins engages in a cut-throat secret war with British Intelligence: and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List 2019 and William C. Morris YA Debut Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781524700386Author Vesper StamperFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952737626Author Katie MacAlisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Fat Cat BooksPublisher Fat Cat BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

In a time of war, how much would you risk to help a friend? Young Johnny Dunne works hard at Balbriggan's Mill Hotel, but still finds time to enjoy life with his friends, Alice and Stella. Though the three come from different backgrounds - Johnny had...

Packed full of trivia, facts and stats, The Top 10 of Everything England covers every aspect of the Three Lions' long and colourful history in dozens of ranked lists. With a star cast of past and present internationals, the lists include the most...

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself. When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into...

Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister, Zeena, into the war over the Holy Land, but now all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive. When Zeena refuses to give up the fight while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398482357Author Ruth BurtFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

""I wanted to be close to you. So I went to the forest..." Gardens, relationships and imaginations run wild in Katie Oliver's debut short fiction collection. The world is unpredictable and no woman is safe. Boundaries are blurred: between fantasy and...

The following year, Sophie and her brother were arrested for treason and interrogated for information about their collaborators. This debut novel recounts the lives of Sophie and her friends and highlights their brave stand against fascism in Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312564346Author Rosemary SutcliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Square FishPublisher Square FishWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm *...

In the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin to gather on the North American island of Newfoundland. They are attempting what many believe to be impossible - to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374466169Author Rosemary SutcliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Dublin 1920 'Above the noise of the crowd, I could hear men shouting. I looked back and saw them - a line of trucks, and men with guns starting to run towards the field. That's when it happened.' On a bright day in November, three boys joined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984835246Author Natalie MaeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint RazorbillPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635618631Author Hal BorlandFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142417256Author Sherri L. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The last years of King Herod the Great's reign are turbulent, the public splendour of his many architectural projects belying the rotten core of his private life. His extended family is riven with jealousy, suspicion and hatred. Into this dangerous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147513861Author Renee AhdiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 140mm *...

The Lucky Leaf Handbook is the world's first guide to the game of catching leaves as they fall from the trees. T. E. P. Noodle is a pioneering 'lucky leafer' who has been playing the game for many years, and has applied that experience, along with...

The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The...

When teenager Ciara Farrelly visits her dead grandfather's Ontario home she uncovers a secret from his childhood. Back in 1928, twelve-year-old Mike Farrelly made friends with Wilson, a lonely, rich boy whose family had emigrated from Ireland, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312653040Author Morris GleitzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801551373Author William AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

It's spring 1919. Ireland's War of Independence has just begun. In a cottage in County Westmeath, thirteen-year-old Colm Conneely longs to join the local Volunteers, the 'Rainbow Chasers' who dream of an independent Ireland. Caught up in republican...

A true princess is a princess, whether in a castle or a cage... When her father, Robert the Bruce, is crowned King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, captures Marjorie and keeps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award 2017 and TAYSHAS Reading List 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780553522341Author Kiersten WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143187127Author Sandra GullandFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Justin Rollins' acclaimed The Lost Boyz (below) traced the author's early life on the streets. Ten years on, this new book describes how he did time in adult prisons and experienced other challenges including trauma, associated fears, flashbacks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Sydney Taylor Book Award (Young Adult) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780316490573Author Monica HesseFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown Young...

A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and worked While famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or...

Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family's closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families lives have been intertwined, connected by the crossing stones that...

This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience reception. Rachel H. Lesser offers a new reading of the poem that shows how the characters'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award 2005 and Maine Student Book Award 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780440418313Author Kimberly Brubaker BradleyFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780440419846Author Victoria McKernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Laurel-Leaf...

One of the most dramatic seafaring tragedies ever ... Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy runs away from home in Queenstown (Cobh) to follow his sea-captain father onto the Lusitania. On the return journey from New York, Finbar works as a deck-hand, and...

From acclaimed author Tonya Bolden comes the story of a teen girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s. Savannah Riddle is lucky. As a daughter of an upper class African American family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Newbery Medal (Children's) 1956.Book InformationISBN 9780618250745Author Jean Lee LathamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593381243Author Katherine LockeFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338355932Author Sharon CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 150mm *...