Thunder And Lightnings
  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141361857
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00

Thunder And Lightnings

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7 Jul 2016
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1 Oct 2016
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When Andrew's family moves house, he strikes up an unexpected friendship with his neighbour Victor. There isn't a thing Victor doesn't know about the RAF planes flying overhead and the two boys are soon busy tracking their movements.
Then Andrew discovers that Victor's beloved Lightnings are due to be scrapped...

Thunder and Lightnings won the Carnegie Medal in 1976.
  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141361857
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Jan Mark

Jan Mark was born in Welwyn, Herts in 1943. She grew up in Ashford, Kent and attended Canterbury College of Art. She taught in a secondary school in Gravesend for six years, before becoming a full-time writer. Her book THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Whitbread Children's Award. She won the Carnegie Medal twice, for THUNDER AND LIGHTNINGS and HANDLES, and was a regular reviewer for the Guardian.

She sadly died suddenly in January 2006; a huge loss to the world of children's books.

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