Sapphire Battersea (# Hetty Feather)

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

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General Fields

  • : 19.99 NZD
  • : 9780440869276
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : UNKNOWN
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  • : 0.303
  • : May 2012
  • : 198mm X 128mm X 27mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : September 2012
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  • : Jacqueline Wilson
  • : Hetty Feather 2
  • : Paperback
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  • : Nick Sharratt
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : very good
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  • : 432
  • : YFT
  • : B+W throughout
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Barcode 9780440869276
9780440869276

Description

Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her beautiful new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But things don't always go as planned...Follow the twists and turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Jem - but also finds a new sweetheart, Bertie the butcher's boy, who whisks her away from her chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hetty's life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?

Promotion info

A fascinating, funny and moving Victorian-era sequel to the much-loved Hetty Feather.

Reviews

- "A brilliant young writer of wit and subtlety." --"The Times" - "Hughly popular with seven to ten year olds: she should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance." --"Independent on Sunday" - "Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues." --"Bookseller"

Author description

JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade. 'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES 'She should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues' BOOKSELLER