Main character Sheba takes care of her locks, everyone says she has a wonderful head of hair. A good deal goes unexplained, meant to be taken at face value (such as Sheba or Monkeyboy’s animal natures), but the weird and serious sides of the story balance each other nicely. Larwood, Kieran Freaks: The Most Unusual Crime Fighters Ever Chicken House, 2012, pp336, 6.99 pounds sterling 978 1 906427 93 1 This is Kieran Larwood's debut novel, written since winning the 2011 Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction competition.

sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Newcomer Larwood spins a whimsical yet touching story, injecting the unpleasant reality of Victorian-era poverty with a touch of humor and fantastical elements, making for an enjoyable and none-too-serious adventure. Books by Kieran Larwood (Author of Podkin One-Ear) Books by Kieran Larwood Kieran Larwood Average rating 4.34 5,473 ratings 772 reviews shelved 12,737 times Showing 24 distinct works. This gang of unlikely heroes gets caught up in a mystery involving missing street urchins, steampunk monstrosities, and a fiendish set of villains. Ten-year-old Sheba, better known as the Wolfgirl for her layer of fur and ability to sprout fangs and claws, is an orphan who ends up as part of Plump-scuttle’s Peculiars, a freak show that also stars a teenage ninja, a trash-talking monkey boy, a romance-writing strongman, and a woman who talks to rats. Terms and Conditions can be found on the Chicken House website.Victorian London gets a little weirder in this fast-paced tale of outcasts serving as champions of the oppressed and underprivileged, which won the 2011 London Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. In 2019 a second prize was introduced to mark the competition's tenth anniversary, with a publishing contract worth £7,500 awarded to the Chairman's Choice. The grand prize is a publishing contract worth £10,000. The annual competition is for full manuscripts suitable for readers aged between 7 and 18 by unpublished, unagented writers. The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition was launched in 2008 by Chicken House and The Times newspaper. He graduated from Southampton University.

The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition Kieran Larwood, author of Freaks, was the winner of the Times/Chicken House Childrens Fiction Competition 2011. It is the UK publisher of the multi-million bestselling Maze Runner series. Leonard, Rachel Grinti, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jasbinder Bilan. It has introduced many new successful authors, including Cornelia Funke, Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, Kevin Brooks, Lucy Christopher, Rachel Ward, M. The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specialising in children's fiction.įounded in 2000 by Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman as Chicken House Publishing, it was bought by Scholastic in 2005. For the agricultural building, see chicken house.

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