The Short Knife

Informationen zum Autor 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. Elen's debut novel, How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Carnegie Medal. Klappentext Winner of the Tir na n-Og Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal It is the year 454AD. The Roman Empire has withdrawn from Britain, throwing it into the chaos of the Dark Ages. Mai has been kept safe by her father and her sister, Haf. But when Saxon warriors arrive at their farm, the family is forced to flee to the hills where British warlords lie in wait. Can Mai survive in a dangerous world where speaking her mother tongue might be deadly, and where even the people she loves the most can't be trusted?

Product details

• Authors: Elen Caldecott, Caldecott Elen
• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 11 to 15
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781783449781
• ISBN: 978-1-78344-978-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Siblings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / Europe, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, c 400 to c 1066 (Anglo-Saxon period), Interest age: from c 11 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees