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Julian Sedgwick

    Julian Sedgwick creëert boeiende verhalen voor jonge lezers, die zich verdiepen in mysterieuze rijken en intrigerende geschiedenissen. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door meeslepende verhalen en levendige beelden, die kinderen meenemen op spannende avonturen. Sedgwick richt zich op het creëren van verhalen die de verbeelding en nieuwsgierigheid prikkelen, vaak met elementen van het bovennatuurlijke en historische raadsels. Zijn boeken zijn bedoeld om de volgende generatie lezers te boeien en te inspireren.

    Ghosts of Shanghai: Shadow of the Yangtze
    100 Stories from the Tokyo Ghost Café
    Tsunami Girl
    The Wheel of Life and Death
    The Palace of Memory
    Het mysterium: Het geheugenpaleis
    • The Palace of Memory

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      The book was first published in Great Britain in 2014 by Hodder Children's Books, indicating its origin and the target audience of children. It likely features themes and narratives suitable for young readers, reflecting contemporary issues or imaginative storytelling typical of the publisher's offerings.

      The Palace of Memory
      4,5
    • The Wheel of Life and Death

      • 344bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      The book was originally published in Great Britain by Hodder Children's Books in 2014. It offers a unique perspective on its themes and characters, engaging readers with its imaginative storytelling and rich narrative style.

      The Wheel of Life and Death
      4,0
    • Tsunami Girl

      • 376bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It’s about a young person trying to work out who they are, and where they fit - and trying to do this whilst surviving the trauma of a triple disaster of colossal scale, told through both prose and manga.

      Tsunami Girl
      4,0
    • Abducted by spirits from his village, lost boy Akira must make the long journey in north Japan to find his family and save his young sister, before time runs out. Voyaging deeper and deeper into a Japan 'between the worlds', Akira and his companions encounter a host of yokai monsters and famous ghosts, discovering a sometimes comical and sometimes terrifying world of interlinked and ghostly short stories along the way.

      100 Stories from the Tokyo Ghost Café
      4,0
    • BLACK DRAGON

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Twelve-year-old Danny, who's half-Chinese and half-British, had an unusual childhood. His parents were the star performers in the Mysteriuma radical traveling circusand they taught Danny plenty of tricks, from high-wire walking to hypnosis. But his parents' skills couldn't save them from dying in a suspicious fire. Now Danny and his aunt Laura are heading to Hong Kongwhere Laura, an investigative journalist, plans to research a dangerous gang called the Black Dragon.

      BLACK DRAGON
      3,7
    • Dark Satanic Mills

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Set in a near-future Britain, 'Dark Satanic Mills' tracks a young girl's journey from the flooded landmarks of London to the vast, scorched and abandoned hills of the north. Framed for a murder she did not commit, Christie has no other choice but to run for her life.

      Dark Satanic Mills
      3,0