The Secret of Golden Island

by Natasha Farrant (Faber Children’s) Did you know that there are more than 6,000 islands in the British Isles? In this story, Skylar is fascinated by one of them – the tiny Golden Island, which is wild, hidden by cliffs and has just one house that’s surrounded by a secret garden. She’s heard all about the island from her beloved grandpa, who visited it once, long ago but things have changed since grandpa’s stroke, and now Skylar is struggling at home and at school. When she meets Yakov, a refugee who has been forced from his home by war and longs to go back, the two of them forge an instant friendship. Then they see an extraordinary notice in the newspaper, advertising a competition to win Golden Island. It feels…

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