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Johnny Swanson

Johnny Swanson

by EleanorUpdale (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $3.22
Synopsis

Special offer - this is the secret of instant delight. Be the first to read Johnny Swanson ! The book that's got the nation talking - yours by return of post. All is revealed: the truth about the Stambleton murder; the facts behind the TB scare; the real identity of Ada Ardour; and, one boy's fight to save his mother's life! All this, and the answer to the burning question of 1929: What on earth is a Clong?

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 29 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 0385616422
ISBN 13: 9780385616423
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: A rip-roaring mystery adventure with the most unlikely hero ever.

Media Reviews
This is a lovely story, full of fascinating and accurate period detail, social injustice and moral quandaries, that revels in a child's determination to play the unfair system to his advantage. Young fans of Updale's Montmorency series will find this equally entertaining -- Sally Morris Daily Mail Like the best children's books, it's about children, not simplified or toned down for them -- Michael Morpurgo The Times The Silver Sword, Goodnight Mr Tom, The Butterfly Lion, The Railway Children and Kim all belong to a genre in which there is no magic, but a tremendous sense of what real children in adversity might achieve with courage, cleverness and luck. Eleanor Updale's Johnny Swanson belongs to this category, and it deserves the highest praise -- Amanda Craig The Times Updale writes with such obvious relish that fun exudes from the ink on every page. This is real entertainment. Johnny Swanson is just the kind of book for which the term joyous romp was invented -- Philip Ardagh Guardian Johnny Swanson is another historical novel from Eleanor Updale, the creator of the wonderful Montmorency books, and this is an ingeniously constructed whodunit set in northern England in 1929, during a TB epidemic. There's lots of blood and gore, and it explores some unusal adult themes - being broke for example -- Toby Clements Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Eleanor Updale has been writing books since the turn of the century. Before that she worked in radio and television: mainly on news programmes including The World at One and Newsnight. Eleanor's 'Montmorency' series has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and Johnny Swanson was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards and won the Fantastic Book Award. You can find out more at www.eleanorupdale.com