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New world order
By Jeapes, Ben
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38575-015-8
- Publisher
- New York : David Fickling Books, 2005.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2005
Gr 7-Up This historical science-fiction novel opens on a May afternoon in 1645. The bloody civil war between King Charles I and Parliament is wreaking havoc on England. John Donder, a war-weary general traveling incognito, returns to the village where he was fostered as a young man and where he unknowingly left behind a son. The pair quickly become allies in a political landscape of warring armies, guerilla warfare, and dubious alliances. The stakes, of course, are nothing less than history as we know it. The two befriend Charles I and his son and ultimately make comm...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
