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At the Sign Of the Sugared Plum

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-07-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408825449
Rating: 4.8/5 (254 downloads)

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'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn''t think you'd want to go there . . . Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.' Hannah is oblivious to Farmer Price's dark words, excited as she is about her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop 'The Sugared Plum', making sweetmeats for the gentry. Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome, Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away - the Plague is taking hold of London. Based on much research, Mary Hooper tellingly conveys how the atmosphere in London changes from a disbelief that the Plague is anything serious, to the full-blown horror of the death carts and being locked up - in effect to die - if your house is suspected of infection.

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Petals in the Ashes

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-05-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1582347204
Rating: 4.3/5 (472 downloads)

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In 1666, Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire.

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The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-07-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408825430
Rating: 4.8/5 (254 downloads)

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Eliza is ousted by her new stepmother from her family and finally makes her way to London - only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a mouthful of bread. At this point Eliza's life takes some remarkable twists as she learns to survive the sordid prison life, is rescued by a woman she has never met before pretending to be her aunt - but for what exactly? - and befriends Nell Gwynn who introduces her to the courtly intrigue, politics and glamour of the court of King Charles. And then Eliza finds out about her true background....

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Zara

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408837080
Rating: 4.8/5 (37 downloads)

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Zara and Ella were both two weeks late for the start of the school year. Ever since then they've been best friends. They're always fooling around finding out the star signs of boys they fancy, reading out their horoscopes and playing games to discover the initial of the boy they're going to marry - just things to pass the time and take their minds off exams and tests. Ella's never really taken it all very seriously, but then Zara starts to act a bit differently - dressing like a Goth and experimenting with her new-found spiritual side and psychic powers in order to get them noticed by the popular crowd in their class and earn them both a bit of kudos. But little does Ella know how far Zara is really prepared to go - even betraying their friendship - to get the attention she clearly seeks. Mary Hooper writes with haunting accuracy about the manipulative mind games and power struggles that go on within groups of friends at school. Zara is a brilliantly observed account of school life for teenage girls as well as being a book that one simply burns through - pacy, juicy and lively writing about issues that horrify and fascinate and resonate all at once.

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Amy

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408836688
Rating: 4.8/5 (366 downloads)

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'It all started after I fell out with Louise and Bethany, really. It was falling out with them that made me try to find friends somewhere else, and the Internet seemed a good place to look . . .' Amy is a level-headed sort of girl, certainly not one to get into dangerous situations. But when the new term starts she does find herself without her usual gang of friends. And so she turns to the Internet and meets a very sexy guy who calls himself Zed. It's not long before he is asking her to meet him . . . Even the level-headed Amy cannot in the end resist this invitation. In Mary Hooper's classically accessible and unpreachy way, she tackles responsibly the potential danger of the Internet and the use of 'date-rape' drugs.

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Holly

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408836769
Rating: 4.8/5 (367 downloads)

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'Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds out the identity of her admirer she is in for a shock - her admirer is not a potential boyfriend: her admirer is her father. Holly has to come to terms with the fact that her father is not the man who lives at home with her, who she loves and calls her father. Her father is a man who has lived all her life on the other side of the world, not even knowing of her existence. Holly and her mother have some talking to do. Mary Hooper tackles this emotionally fraught situation with tenderness and compassion, yet still with her trademark pacy readability that has proved so popular with the young teen girls' market.

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Chelsea and Astra

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408841509
Rating: 4.8/5 (415 downloads)

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'I saw him first. His eyes swivelled round the room and then rested on me and I thought to myself - WOW!' Chelsea and Astra are like chalk and cheese. But even so, they are the best of friends. They do everything together. Until something happens. That something is a boy. And for the first time ever, Astra and Chelsea are fighting against each other. Will their friendship survive? Written from the perspectives of each friend, Mary Hooper gets right to heart of what it feels like when the loyalty of even the best of friendships is tested.

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Poppy

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408829827
Rating: 4.8/5 (298 downloads)

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Poppy is young, beautiful and clever – and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love – with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war. As the lists of the dead and wounded grow longer, Poppy must do whatever she can to help the injured soldiers, knowing all the while that her own soldier may never return home . . .

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Velvet

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0747599211
Rating: 4.5/5 (992 downloads)

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Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come to work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But soon Velvet realises that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . . A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens.

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By Royal Command

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1599906708
Rating: 4.9/5 (67 downloads)

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As a reward for saving Queen Elizabeth's life, teenaged Lucy, now firmly established in Dr. Dee's household, is asked to secretly work as a spy for the queen but strange ghostly cries in the house prompt the curious Lucy to disregard instructions and once again attempt to uncover her employer's dark secrets.

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The Betrayal

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 140881644X
Rating: 4.8/5 (164 downloads)

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In this final volume, Lucy is asked to continue her work on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. And her romance with Tomas, the queen's fool, seems to be flourishing - or it is until Mistress Juliette, the new lady-in-waiting, arrives and Tomas pays her far too much attention for Lucy's liking. But then Lucy realises that Juliette is telling lies and is not what she appears to be. Lucy fears for the safety of the queen as there are always supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots who are willing to risk all. How will Lucy convince Tomas of her fears when he just teases her and tells her that she is simply jealous? Desperate times call for desperate measures ... A thrilling and romantic historical novel that will give all teenage readers an accurate sense of the Elizabethan period.

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Poppy in the Field

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408829835
Rating: 4.8/5 (298 downloads)

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When Poppy learns that the love of her life, Freddie de Vere, is to marry someone else, she knows her heart will break. Devastated, she volunteers her nursing skills overseas to take her away from the painful reminders at home. But things are about to get much worse for Poppy. The journey to the hospital in Flanders is full of horrors, and when she arrives it is to find a spiteful ward Sister and unfriendly nurses. Despite her loneliness and homesickness, the dangers of frontline warfare soon make her forget her own troubles and Poppy finds that comfort for a broken heart can be found in the most unexpected places. Brilliantly researched and inspired by real-life events, big and small, Poppy in the Field is a story about the forgotten bravery of women on the front line, told through the eyes of a young woman determined to play her part.

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Fallen Grace

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0747599130
Rating: 4.5/5 (991 downloads)

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Grace Parkes has just had to do a terrible thing. Having given birth to an illegitimate child, she has travelled to the famed Brookwood Cemetery to place her small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can think of to give something at least to the little baby who died at birth, and to avoid the ignominy of a pauper's grave. Distraught and weeping, Grace meets two people at the cemetery: Mrs Emmeline Unwin and Mr James Solent. These two characters will have a profound effect upon Grace's life. But Grace doesn't know that yet. For now, she has to suppress her grief and get on with the business of living: scraping together enough pennies selling watercress for rent and food; looking after her older sister, who is incapable of caring for herself; thwarting the manipulative and conscience-free Unwin family, who are as capable of running a lucrative funeral business as they are of defrauding a young woman of her fortune. A stunning evocation of life in Victorian London, with vivid and accurate depictions, ranging from the deprivation that the truly poor suffered to the unthinking luxuries enjoyed by the rich: all bound up with a pacy and thrilling plot, as Grace races to unravel the fraud about to be perpetrated against her and her sister.

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At the House of the Magician

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408816466
Rating: 4.8/5 (164 downloads)

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Lucy has been forced to run away from home as she fears for her safety from her drunken father. She is taken on as a maid at the house of Dr Dee, court magician, upon whom Elizabeth I relies heavily, even down to advising the date of her coronation. The household is strange and sinister, and Lucy has a nose for intrigue . . . And she has more than enough to satisfy her: Lucy stumbles across a plot to assassinate the queen and has to find means to warn her . . .

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The Disgrace of Kitty Grey

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 1408827611
Rating: 4.8/5 (276 downloads)

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Kitty is living a happy, carefree life as a dairymaid in the countryside. And then, of course, there is Will, the river man who she thinks is very fond of her, and indeed she is of him. Then one day disaster strikes: Will disappears. Kitty is first worried and then furious. So when Kitty is asked to go to London to pick up a copy of Pride and Prejudice, the latest novel by the very fashionable Jane Austen, Kitty leaps at the chance to track down Will. But Kitty has no idea how vast London is, and how careful she must be.

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Megan 2 - Rejacketed

Author: Mary Hooper
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Single mothers
ISBN: 9781408802960
Rating: 4.4/5 (88 downloads)

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Contemporary Authors

Author: Julie Mellors
Publsiher: Contemporary Authors
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780787678654
Rating: 4.7/5 (876 downloads)

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A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.