The Three Secrets of Sammy
By Elizabeth Nussbaum

about the book
Eleven year old Nicky goes for an evening walk by the river with her mother. Is that a log of wood in the water or a drowning rat, and why does it shriek? The bundle of muddy something turns into a puppy, but not just any puppy...

Nicky's surprise encounter transforms a lonely half-term week into a journey into the heart of the past and a detective hunt to break a two-hundred year old spell.

A delightful and engrossing story, that at the same time introduces children to what it was like to live in other times and other conditions.

Released: July 2009
Price: £6.99
ISBN: 978 0 9554373 2 8
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