Night Run

£5.39

Night Run

Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Author: Bali Rai

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Collection: Flashbacks

Language: English

Published by: A&C Black Childrens & Educational

Published on: 5th June 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 160 pages

ISBN: 9781472904379


Setting

Amritsar, India, 1919. A city on the verge of meltdown, as tensions between the local people and the British colonial rulers explode.

Plot

12-year-old Arjan Singh learns that his father has been falsely charged with serious crimes and faces hanging. But there has been a terrible massacre in the city, as British troops fired on unarmed Indians, and the city is under curfew. Anger and fear have left the population seething and danger lurks around every corner.

Conflict

Arjan sets out on a perilous mission to save his father, in the face of armed troops, martial curfew, and vicious local bandits. Can he escape and get to his father before it’s too late?

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