Book description
Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and
multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.
Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is
still rationing and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of
children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look
at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village
- and they've heard of the treasure too . . .
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper.
At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked
as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of
bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won
the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel
about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award
2005.
