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Instead of a day watching a Premier League match, Peter ends up in Derbyshire with the family au pair, Margrit, who's visiting the Dyer family. However when his father cancels at the last minute, Peter has a huge row and screams 'I hate you!' at him. It's just over a week before Christmas and Peter Schock is looking forward to a belated birthday treat - spending some precious time with his dad. Its narrative grips the reader as tightly as the hangman's noose that haunts the tale. The result is an attention-grabbing story with a fast-moving plot that switches back and forth between the 18th and 21st centuries.

As a mother of two, Linda Buckley-Archer wrote the tale for her own children. A highly original cross between a historical novel, a thriller and a sci-fi page-turner, Gideon the Cutpurse is carefully researched to reflect an accurate portrait of 18th century England. An academic and a fan of children's fantasy fiction, Linda was inspired to write her first book after listening to historian Lucy Moore discussing aspects of 18th century crime. Particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers.Linda Buckley-Archer's debut novel is the first part of a fantasy adventure trilogy. J-Recommended for junior high school students.

Readers will be eager for the sequel to thisĮxciting time travel adventure, which features lots of danger, action,Īnd humor as well as a carefully detailed evocation of life in another Trilogy finds the Tar Man transported back to Peter's era-and Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, their parents areįrantically trying to locate them. Life, from foodstuffs like calf's head pie to the horrors of Interesting characters, Peter and Kate learn all about 18th-century London, encountering highwaymen and King George III, among other Gideon, a former thief himself, if they want to have any chance of The Tar Man, a ruthlessĬriminal, steals the machine, and Peter and Kate must accept the help of Modern-day 12-year-olds Peter and Kate suddenly are transported toĮngland in 1763, courtesy of an accident with Kate's father'sĪnti-gravity machine, which also makes the trip. To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2006: (The Gideon Trilogy,īook One.) Previously published as Gideon the Cutpurse.

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