Matt Killeen – författare

Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and the Branford Boase AwardNominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal A teenage spy. A Nazi boarding school. The performance of a lifetime.Sarah has played many roles - but now she faces her most challenging of all. Because there's only one way for a Jewish orphan spy to survive at a school for the Nazi elite. And that's to become a monster like them.They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming...with a mission to destroy them all.

A bitingly smart, timely and adrenalin-fuelled historical thriller delving into the horrors of germ warfare, sequel to the Costa Award-shortlisted ORPHAN MONSTER SPYA teenage spy. A killer disease. And the monster who would use it.Sarah is used to spying in the champagne-fuelled parties of Nazi Berlin. But now she must track a deadly virus through central Africa and unmask the mysterious White Devil before the disease can be turned into a weapon...They think she is a terrified little girl. But she is a warrior set to burn them all.

Ghosts, dragons, gods, and UFOs fill these 27 imaginative tales, each created by children aged 9+ and adapted by much-loved children’s authors – but each hides a real human experience drawn from the lives of those raised in the 1940s. Thrilling but moving, this anthology for ages 9–12 shows how extraordinary adventures can grow from ordinary lives.