You can order BEYOND THE WALL by Tanya Landman from Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. But then Cassia meets Marcus slick, slippery, silver-tongued a true and perfect son of Rome. As in Apache, Tanya Landman has an extraordinary ability to imagine what it's like to be one of society's outcasts. With dogs on her trail and a bounty on her head, the journey seems impossible. Tanya Landman writes with great authority about this part of US history - her first novel on the subject, Apache, was nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal. It is written by the author of Mondays are Murder which won the 2010 Red House Children's Book Award and The Goldsmith's Daughter, which was nominated for the 2008 Guardian Children's fiction prize. Trapped in a world of injustice and inequality, it's only when Charley is posted to Apache territory that she begins to learn what it is to be truly free. Soon she's being sent to the prairies to fight a whole new war against the "savage Indians". In a terrifyingly lawless land, where the colour of a person's skin can bring violent death, Charley disguises herself as a man and joins the army. But then her adopted mother is raped and lynched at the hands of a mob and Charley is left alone. That's who." At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south. "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. From the Hardcover edition.This is a beautiful piece of historical fiction with great heart and humanity. Taking readers on a sweeping and suspenseful journey through the nineteenth century American Southwest, Tanya Landman draws on historical accounts to imagine the Black Mountain Apache as a tribe in a fight for survival against the devastating progress of nations. But Keste begins to whisper about Siki’s father’s dishonorable death, and even as Siki earns her place among the warriors, she senses a dark secret in her past one that will throw into doubt everything she knows. Though some men, like envious Keste, wish to see Siki fail, she pas*ses test after test, and her skills grow under the guidance of her tribe’s greatest warrior, Golahka. After watching helplessly as Mexican raiders brutally murder her little brother, fourteen year old Siki is filled with a desire for vengeance and chooses to turn away from a woman’s path to become a warrior of her Apache tribe. The story of a runaway slave girl and her dangerous journey through the murky underworld of Roman Britain, by Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman. From Tanya Landman, author of the 2015 Carnegie Medal winner Buffalo Soldier, comes a heart-stopping tale of love, corruption and the power of choice. A young woman seeks to avenge her brother’s death by becoming an Apache warrior and learns a startling truth about her own identity. So the tale begins, and Tanya Landman proves true to the promise of danger, mystery and reflection implicit in her opening lines. The story of a runaway slave girl and her dangerous journey through the murky underworld of Roman Britain, by Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman.
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