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Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Fiction at The British Book Awards
Winner of the Books are My Bag Readers Award, Children's Fiction
Shortlisted for the FCBG Children's Book Award
Adventures on Trains is a major mystery series for young readers, from bestselling authors M.G. Leonard and Sam…
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1 author picked The Highland Falcon Thief as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A great mystery that my son loved trying to solve as we read along, as well as well-rounded characters, including Harrison Beck – boy detective and hero of the Adventures on Trains series – and we also loved the Scottish setting and the stuff about trains too… we learnt a lot!
And if you like this one, there are five or more others in the series, set in California, southern Africa, Germany, and elsewhere.
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