Tom faces a terrible decision: secure his father's release, or stop the assassination of the king. But on the long journey to London, Tom discovers the Falcon's true mission - and a plot to blow up Parliament with barrels of black powder. 2016 - Pages: 368 - Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm - Category: Childrens Books, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Ally Sherrick,Black Powder,Chicken House,19. He falls in with a mysterious stranger - the Falcon - who promises to help him in exchange for his service. Ally Sherrick is an award-winning author of middle-grade historical mystery adventures.Black Powder, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. The writing is lively and the pace never flags.' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY England, 1605: 12-year-old Tom must save his father from hanging. a wonderfully explosive adventure set in the turbulent year of the gunpowder plot in Black Powder with impossibly divided loyalties.' JULIA GOLDING, AUTHOR OF THE DIAMOND OF DRURY LANE 'With its constant reversals and twists and turns, Tom's story is almost as complex as the pliot and counter-plot of the Gunpowder Treason itself. Ally Sherrick is an award-winning author of middle-grade historical mystery adventures.Black Powder, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder. Signed and dedicated audiobook and postcard of historical Gunpowder Plot adventure Black Powder by award-winning childrens author, Ally Sherrick. A rip-roaring historical adventure set at the time of the Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot - winner of the Historical Association Young Quills Award! '. Choose from the murky world of plotting and spies in Black Powder, a dangerous wartime mission to save a piece of priceless Anglo-Saxon treasure in The.

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