Flight of a Kestrel

In days now gone by, gentlemen wore tall shiny hats and ladies coalscuttle-shaped bonnets, and

children played in the streets with hoops, or whips and tops. More than a hundred years ago this story begins, deep in the heart of London, with the ragged barefoot urchins who roamed the streets of that great city in bands, sleeping huddled together to keep warm in some broken-down old house, or between the high walls of a dark backstreet.

So begins Flight of a Kestrel, the spellbinding story of a boy called Kes and his band of urchins:

Mouse, Unicorn, Fox, Sparrow and others. Life is exciting every day as they try to survive, but now they are caught up in an amazing adventure – with big surprises to come! Along the way, we meet a cast of strange and wonderful characters, some of them not what they seem …

Frances Ann Green has spent all her working life with children and young people, and her book is a delightful and thrilling read for people of all ages.