The Children of the King
Twelve-year-old Cecily Lockwood and her older brother, Jem, leave their father behind in war-torn London and travel with their socialite mother to the country estate of Uncle Peregrine. Arriving at the village, Cecily discovers other children being evacuated, most of them alone and frightened, waiting to be chosen by strangers to board with them. Cecily wants one for herself, to bring home to the manor with them.
After her mother surprisingly agrees, Cecily chooses a girl named May. Although May comes from a poorer background, she is clever and unwilling to be controlled by Cecily, who wonders if perhaps she has made a poor choice. In the meantime, fourteen-year-old Jem is straining to do something for the…
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March 11, 2014
Sonya Hartnett’s work has been published around the world. She is the internationally acclaimed author of several picture books as well as novels for both adults and children, winning such accolades as the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize,
the Andersen Award, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.