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Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() And worse than that Simon is kidnapped and sent to sea! Luckily there are two friendly stowaways aboard – the feisty Dido Twite and the spoiled young Justin. ![]() Before he even gets a chance to open his glistening new paints Simon stumbles right into the centre of a plot to kill the King. The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. But the city is plagued by wolves and mysterious disappearances. Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. Publication date: First published in 1964 Genre: Children’s, Fantasy, Alternate History Today, Thea reads the first book in John Christopher’s Tripod series, The White Mountains! What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]()
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