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Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2013
Elizabethan London: a teeming city of traders and thieves, courtiers and preachers, riff-raff and quality, cut-throats - and demons. When scrunty Jack the 'Judicious Nipper' picks the wrong pocket at the Globe Theatre, he finds himself mixed up in an altogether more dangerous London than he could have imagined.
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The Brandford Boase Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children.
The seven shortlisted titles were:
After the Snow by SD Crockett
The Things We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant
Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan
A Hen in the Wardrobe by Wendy Meddour
Black Arts by Andrew Prentice & Jonathan Weil
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
A World Between Us by Lydia Syson
**** The Winner was A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.
An outbreak of devil-worship has led to a wave of anti-witch fervor whipped up by the Elect, a mysterious group of Puritans recognizable by their red-stained right hands. Rumour has it that their leader, the charismatic Nicholas Webb, wants to purge the city entirely and build a New Jerusalem. Jack has his own reason for hating him: he watched Nicholas kill his mother.
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An outbreak of devil-worship has led to a wave of anti-witch fervor whipped up by the Elect, a mysterious group of Puritans recognizable by their red-stained right hands. Rumour has it that their leader, the charismatic Nicholas Webb, wants to purge the city entirely and build a New Jerusalem.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Black Arts The Books of Pandemonium and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-14 years old
Black Arts The Books of Pandemonium features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Black Arts The Books of Pandemonium was written by Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil and published by David Fickling Books an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK