The Cinnamon Tree: A Novel Set in Africa

by Aubrey Flegg

Overview

Yola's leg is blown off by a landmine and her life in Africa is changed forever. When Yola travels to Ireland to be fitted with an artificial leg and meets seventeen-year-old Fintan, she little realises that they will soon be involved in an international arms intrigue, and an adventure that will bring them both close to death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847174901
Publisher:	Irish American Book Company
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	463 KB
Age Range:	13 - 12 Years

About the Author

His first book, Katie's War, is about the civil war period in Ireland; it was published in 1997. Katie's War has recently won the Peter Pan Award 2000 -- an award created by IBBY Sweden for a children's book, translated into Swedish, which gives information on another culture.

Wings Over Delft, the first book in the Louise trilogy, won the Bisto Book of the Year overall award in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

Aubrey Flegg . . . has again come up with a very likeable heroine in The Cinnamon Tree.

Irish Times

Aubrey Flegg . . . has again come up with a very likeable heroine in The Cinnamon Tree.

Irish Times