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BfK No. 99 - July 1996

Cover Story
This month BfK features Jane Ray’s cover for The Twelve Dancing Princesses. We’re particularly delighted to have the opportunity to use this illustration as it enables us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Orchard Books - they’re 10 this year! And also to thank them for their help in producing our July cover.

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Plundering Paradise

Geraldine McCaughrean
(Oxford University Press)
978-0192715470, RRP £5.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Poor Nathan is hounded from Greylake School in 1717, following the death of his father, penniless and still owing school fees. Along with his equally helpless sister, Maude, he ends up following another boy, Tamo White, the son of a pirate, to Madagascar. From here on we have a truly exotic adventure of pirates and deception. The characterisation is full of subtleties along with the growth of the three main characters, especially Maude, into strong and independent people. Swashbuckling galore, and the final chase, well...

Reviewer: 
Adrian Jackson
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