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Red Blue Flag – Reading Level 8+ 10+ www.obrien.ie<br />
C30<br />
AWARD-WINNER<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shakespeare Stealer<br />
By Gary Blackwood<br />
Widge, a young orphan and gifted<br />
shorthand-writer, is sent to steal<br />
Shakespeare’s new play, Hamlet, but<br />
becomes involved with Shakespeare<br />
and his troupe of players. Will Widge<br />
betray his new friends to avoid the<br />
vengeance of his brutal master?<br />
FREE Teaching Guide online<br />
224 pages/SBN 978-0-86278-634-2<br />
€7.95 pb<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Celestial Child<br />
By Don Conroy<br />
During a violent storm, a young girl<br />
sees a strange boy who seems to<br />
glow in the dark. Who, or what, is her<br />
new friend? And what does he want?<br />
160 pages<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-381-5<br />
€6.34 pb<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Island of Ghosts<br />
By Eilís Dillon<br />
When Dara and Brendan fail to return<br />
from their sailing trip, everyone<br />
believes they have drowned – except<br />
their sisters, Barbara and Cáit. <strong>The</strong><br />
two girls set out to discover the truth.<br />
FREE Teaching ideas online<br />
AWARD Bisto Book of the Year Award<br />
192 pages<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-708-0/€6.95 pb<br />
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Fugitives!<br />
By Aubrey Flegg<br />
A story of the Flight of the Earls. It is<br />
1603 and Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone,<br />
is about to leave his homeland<br />
after the disastrous defeat at the battle<br />
of Kinsale. He is on board the French<br />
ship at Lough Swilly, but he wants to<br />
take his youngest son, Con, the future<br />
of the clan, with him. But where is<br />
Con? Adventure, danger, true history.<br />
FREE teaching guide online<br />
256 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-202-0<br />
€7.99 pb/Rights available W<br />
Just Joshua<br />
By Jan Michael<br />
Is it true what everyone is saying:<br />
that Joshua’s father is a ‘Mountain<br />
Man’ – one of the people feared and<br />
mistrusted by the villagers? And what<br />
does that make Joshua?<br />
‘A gem’ Niall MacMonagle<br />
FREE Teaching Guide online<br />
192 pages/ISBN 978-0-86278-818-6<br />
€6.95 pb<br />
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Rights sold J • DU • G<br />
AWARD-WINNER<br />
AWARD-WINNER<br />
Shakespeare’s Scribe<br />
By Gary Blackwood<br />
<strong>The</strong> Black Death rampages through<br />
England, and Widge and the troupe<br />
of players are forced to travel continuously<br />
in an effort to make money. To<br />
make matters worse, Shakespeare<br />
breaks his arm and cannot finish his<br />
new hit comedy. Widge is forced to<br />
step in and save the day!<br />
272 pages/ISBN 978-0-86278-706-6<br />
€7.95 pb<br />
Rights available EU/EL<br />
Sky Wings<br />
Text & illus. Don Conroy<br />
Unknown to humankind, a battle rages<br />
in the animal world to protect their kind<br />
from the evil rat Fericul and the inhabitants<br />
of Ratland. Follow the quest of<br />
Sacer the falcon to save the world from<br />
the deadly rats.<br />
208 pages/B&W<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-419-5<br />
€6.34 pb<br />
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Swap<br />
By Malachy Doyle<br />
Huw, from Wales, and Marcus, from<br />
Dublin, meet up on holiday in County<br />
Cork. It turns out they’re identical to<br />
each other! Even their mums can’t tell<br />
them apart. So they hatch a plan to do<br />
a swap. Only things start to go very<br />
wrong ... very quickly!<br />
224 pages/ISBN 978-1-84717-053-8<br />
€7.99 pb<br />
Rights available W x B<br />
Katie’s War<br />
By Aubrey Flegg<br />
Caught up in the Civil War, Katie has<br />
divided loyalties: her father fought in<br />
the First World War and wants peace,<br />
but others want to fight for a united<br />
Ireland. Which is right?<br />
AWARD Peter Pan Award, IBBY Sweden<br />
192 pages<br />
ISBN 978-0-86278-525-3<br />
€7.95 pb<br />
Rights available W<br />
Rights sold AL • G • SW • SE<br />
Lockie and Dadge<br />
By Frank Murphy<br />
Trouble follows Lockie from foster<br />
home to foster home. <strong>The</strong>n he meets<br />
Dadge and his strange friends and<br />
feels he belongs. But will it last?<br />
Bisto Eilís Dillon Award<br />
Bisto Merit Award<br />
FREE Teaching ideas & Teaching Guide<br />
online<br />
192 pages/ISBN 978-0-86278-424-9<br />
€6.95 pb<br />
Rights available W
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