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Author Burton, Hester.

Title Time of trial / Hester Burton
Published London : Oxford University Press, 1963

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 MELB SPCBC  819 Burton Hes/Tot  LIB USE ONLY
Description 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary A bookseller's family suffers hardships in an oppressed London of 1801 when Mr. Pargeter is imprisoned for sedition and an angry mob wrecks and burns their shop and home
Notes Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1963
Audience children
Notes Carnegie Medal, 1963
Subject Children's stories.
Families -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Freedom of the press -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043316 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043324 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056820
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Ambrus, Victor G.
ISBN 0192712209