Scavenger Boy

Scavenger Boy

by Anthony Lewis (Illustrator), TheresaTomlinson (Author)

Synopsis

Based in or around Sheffield, this thrilling time-slip adventure tells the story of Michael's stumble into the past one snowy day, back two centuries where he encounters the weavers of the cotton mills and their children, and becomes involved in their struggle to survive.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 03 Mar 2003

ISBN 10: 0744559979
ISBN 13: 9780744559972
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
This neatly constructed, absorbing time-slip story once again shows Theresa Tomlinson's gift for recreating working class lives of the past. * Write Away! *
Author Bio
Theresa Tomlinson's first title to be published was The Flither Pickers, which was followed by The Water Cat, The Secret Place, Riding the Waves (commended for the Carnegie Medal in 1991), The Rope Carrier, Haunted House Blues, Night of the red Devil and Meet Me by the Steelmen (commended for the Carnegie Medal in 1998). All of Theresa Tomlinson's books are set in the north of England - many of them on the north-east coast, an area around which she travelled extensively as a small child.