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The Mystery of Wickworth Manor
Elen Caldecott
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Description for The Mystery of Wickworth Manor
Paperback. A warm, funny adventure from a much-loved author Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFC. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158. 208 pages. A warm, funny adventure from a much-loved author. Cateogry: (JC) Children's (6-12). BIC Classification: 5AK; YFC. Dimension: 195 x 127 x 13. Weight: 150.
Paige Owens, bright, cheeky, confident, cannot wait to go to secondary school. Curtis Okafor, wary and much less confident, is not so sure. The only thing they share in common is the first letter of their surnames - which ensures they are forced into each other's company on a school trip to Wickworth Manor, the local stately home. Then Curtis finds a portrait in his bedroom of a young black servant dressed in livery. But why is the portrait hidden in the bedroom, and not in pride of place alongside the other portraits in the manor? And ... Read more
Paige Owens, bright, cheeky, confident, cannot wait to go to secondary school. Curtis Okafor, wary and much less confident, is not so sure. The only thing they share in common is the first letter of their surnames - which ensures they are forced into each other's company on a school trip to Wickworth Manor, the local stately home. Then Curtis finds a portrait in his bedroom of a young black servant dressed in livery. But why is the portrait hidden in the bedroom, and not in pride of place alongside the other portraits in the manor? And ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408820483
SKU
V9781408820483
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99-50
About Elen Caldecott
Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for Young People. Before becoming a writer, she was an archaeologist, a nurse, a theatre usher and a museum security guard. It was while working at the museum that Elen realised there is ... Read more
Reviews for The Mystery of Wickworth Manor
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Creating novels that engage children and at the same time show how books can help them explore difficult questions about their own experience is perhaps the ... Read more
Sunday Times
Creating novels that engage children and at the same time show how books can help them explore difficult questions about their own experience is perhaps the ... Read more