Overview
WINNER YOUNG QUILLS AWARD BEST HISTORICAL FICTION 2021A tale of adventure and bravery, based on the real-life castle siege in the summer of the year 1300. Knights and nobles, pages and prisoners – and a girl of conscience with plenty of courage as the catapults release their rocks into the sky.
WINNER YOUNG QUILLS AWARD BEST HISTORICAL FICTION 2021 12-year-old Ada is a laundress of little consequence but the new castle commander Brian de Berclay has his evil eye on her. Perhaps she shouldn’t have secretly fed the young prisoner in the tower. But when the King of England crosses the border with an army of over 3000 strong, Ada, her friend Godfrey and all at Caerlaverock suddenly find themselves under attack, with only 60 men for protection. Soon, rocks and flaming arrows rain from the sky over Castle Caerlaverock - and Ada has a dangerous choice to make.
- | Author: Barbara Henderson
- | Publisher: Cranachan Publishing Limited
- | Publication Date: Aug 06, 2020
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781911279754
- | ISBN-10: 1911279750
