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|title=Flint

|author=Margaret Redfern

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=208

|publisher=Honno

|date=June 2009

|isbn=1906784043

}}

Will and his brother Ned have been plucked from their home in the Fens. They're on their way to Flint, ditch diggers for Edward I's new castle. Will is unwilling to go, and he's only eleven, but he can't abandon his strange older brother to strangers. Ned can't talk and most people dismiss him as an idiot, but he has skills. He can whisper to horses and calm them, he's a skilled herbalist, and he can make music that moves men's hearts. Ned is glad to be on this journey because he hopes to be reunited with Ieuan ap y Gof, an exiled bard and the man who taught him music.

Read about Edward I in Marc Morris's accessible and enjoyable [[A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris|A Great and Terrible King]]. [[The Owl Service by Alan Garner]] takes the Mabinogion and turns it into an absolute classic of children's literature. If you're looking for books outside the usual commercial box ticking, then we've liked all the books Honno have sent us: [[Head Hunters by Claire Peate]], [[Sweets From Morocco by Jo Verity]] and [[Back Home by Bethan Darwin]].

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