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Sam Angus

Sam Angus has five children and eleven horses and splits her time between Exmoor and London (the horses stay very much on Exmoor). She has been an English teacher and a fashion designer, but is now focusing on writing full-time.

In 2013 Sam was long-listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal with her first novel, Soldier Dog, which is based on the fascinating true story of animals who gave their lives during the Great War. Her second novel, Hero, takes place on the Home Front during the Second World War and follows the fortunes of two child evacuees who rescue an orphaned foal.

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  • Soldier Dog

    Soldier Dog

    Author: Sam Angus
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
    Interest age: 11+
    Reading age: 10+

    It's 1917 and Stanley Ryder is one of many young boys enlisting in the army, in spite of the fact he is underage. Assigned to working with messenger dogs, he is drafted to the Western Front.

  • The House on Hummingbird Island

    The House on Hummingbird Island

    Author: Sam Angus
    Publisher: Macmillan
    Interest age: 10+
    Reading age: 10+

    At the age of 12, Idie Grace learns that she has inherited a large estate on Hummingbird Island: a tropical but remote island in the West Indies, full of exotic wildlife and secrets.

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