The Eleventh Orphan by Joan Lingard

The Eleventh Orphan
by Joan Lingard

Category 2: Younger readers (8-11 years)

About the book

Mr and Mrs Bigsby of the Pig and Whistle, Stoke Newington already look after ten children. When Constable O’Dowd brings them an eleventh orphan he found on the streets, Ma Bigsby is reluctant to take her.

But there’s something about Elfie, it’s the first day of a new century and Ma loves a mystery. Just why does Elfie possess a little water colour of the Pig and Whistle?

As the mystery unfolds, Elfie’s world will change completely.

Download the first chapter of The Eleventh Orphan here!

About the author

Joan Lingard was born and lives in Edinburgh but spent the formative years of her life in Belfast. From those years came the Kevin and Sadie Quintet, for which she is best known, and The File on Fraulein Berg, which is set in her old school Bloomfield Collegiate.  She received the prestigious Buxtehuder Bulle Award in 1986 for Across the Barricades while Tug of War was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award, the Lancashire Children’s Book Award and the Sheffield Book Award. Tom and the Tree House won the Scottish Arts Council Award.  In 2007 Joan was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Award. 

Catnip will publish her brand new children’s novel What to do about Holly in August 2009.

Read more about Joan Lingard on her LLF page.

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