Allies is my new Cornish Trilogy for children, set in the Second World War.  (As Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading Ambassador 2026,  I’ll be launching my book across all corners of Cornwall, more here.  Other UK chances to meet me here).

Allies Book 1 – If The Invader Comes.

“A gripping Cornish wartime story” – Cornwall Libraries

Published by Barrington Stoke,
7 May 2026

Pre-order signed and dedicated books from Shrew Books,  Fowey here

June 1940, with the spectre of a Nazi invasion looming over Britain, three children are forced into an unlikely allyship in this gripping wartime tale.

In these dark days, the parents of Bobble, Cadan and Cilla are involved in vital but top-secret war work, and they need their children’s help to keep their activities hidden.

The unlikely trio initially struggle to trust one another, but when Cadan spots a German E-boat during a Fal river patrol and Cilla discovers a crashed Stuka, they realise the menace is closer than they thought.

After the devastating defeat of the British forces at Dunkirk, the terrifying prospect of a Nazi invasion of Britain seems ever more likely. With danger lurking at every turn, can they band together to protect their home and each other?

Read Chapter 1 here

Pre-order on Amazon now here 

Souvenir Readers Pack coming soon!

“Tom’s writing is always wonderful so I wasn’t at all surprised to enjoy it as much as I did. There’s something very comforting and hopeful about a Tom Palmer book. His love of the landscape shines through as he conjures an immersive sense of time and place, and he writes his characters with such compassion that it’s impossible not to love them and to want to spend time with them. The only downside is that I want more!” Dan Smith

Book Launch

I’ll be launching  If the Invader Comes at Trebah Gardens.

Meet me with Cornwall Libraries with an 8 Day whistle stop tour of FREE events late May-June 2026.

More here 

Researching & Writing If the Invader Comes

• Inspired by Trebah Gardens and Carlew Estate
• Using archives from Kresen Kernow
• Researched at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall & the Museum of Cornish Life
• Developed with Cornish Schools
• Exploring on the Carrick Roads
• Featuring the dramatic bombing of Falmouth and Plymouth burning
• Settings include north coast airfields, Truro and Penryn viaduct

If the Invader Comes Resources  to come

Read chapter 1 here 

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Cover Prediction worksheet

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My If the Invader Comes Scrapbook – flipbook

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We are delighted that Brittany McDaniel has kindly shared her playscript, photos and film of their production of Tom Palmer’s “After the War” for other schools to use and adapt as needed, see below.

Find out more about how this exciting partnership came about and connect scroll further below:

Playscript here

Photos of the production

Film

Background

Brittany McDaniel, a teacher based out of North Platte, Nebraska, USA (the most landlocked state in the US) read After the War: From Auschwitz to Ambleside in the summer of 2025 as she was looking for a script or story to adapt for her high school students  (14-18 year olds) to perform as their competition one act.  In Nebraska, area high school schools compete against other schools with 30 minute long productions and receive judging feedback over the course of their season. Mrs. McDaniel found Tom Palmer’s book while falling down a rabbit hole of research after watching the BBC drama, The Windermere Children and the rest is history. She could see the play happening in her head as she read it and she knew she needed to try and make it happen.

Thanks to the wonder of the internet, Mrs. McDaniel was able to contact Mr. Palmer and ask for permission to adapt his book into a play that would fit within the competition rules and after some back and forth for clarification, everything was set.  Throughout the writing and revising process, there were a few moments and flashbacks that had to be cut due to time and the nature of presenting something live on stage.  Also, one scene was added toward the very end. “The book is so beautifully written but when I was translating it for the stage, it felt like the audience needed one more flashback before the final scene. That led to adding the scene where Yossi is reunited with his family one last time in order for him to say goodbye to them. Also, the line ‘Get up, Yossi. Wash your face.’ just stuck with me and I wanted to find a way for Yossi and his father to have another moment with it.” states McDaniel.

Throughout the whole process, McDaniel and her students read and watched a variety of nonfiction, memoirs, and articles in order to learn more about the children and adults this book was written about. We would encourage anyone reading this book to also do the same.  When asked about their experiences with the show, the cast members of the show responded with these statements:

Henry Cline (Yossi) “Some stories need telling and this is one of them. Rehearsing and performing this show has given the cast the chance to both put on a deep and meaningful story, but also to stay in touch with history and keep an important message alive.”

Isabella Frazier (Rebecca Frenkle, Yossi’s mother) – “Everyone knows the horrors of the holocaust, but no one takes a moment to learn about what happened once the camps were liberated. The atrocities that occurred in the camp continued to haunt the survivors until their dying breaths.”

Mrs. McDaniel says feel free to schools to use the script adaptation to help with your lessons and curriculum as needed. Almost all of the dialogue comes directly from the text and any changes were made after very careful consideration.  If you would like to contact Brittany McDaniel to talk about her process or how to incorporate theatre into your own classroom, please reach out to her via email at bmcdaniel at nppsd dot org
More playscripts here

More about After the War here 

Thank you

What’s coming up … Spring 2026

• 2026 National Year of Reading
• Tuesday 27 January 2026 – Holocaust Memorial Day event & resources
• World Book Day 2026 – Prerecorded in the hot seat films
• Spring Term 2026 Author visits

Exciting news! I have been nominated for the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

2026 National Year of Reading

The National Year of Reading in 2026 has a theme of Go All In. That means finding a way to go all in to what you love doing by reading about it.

I’m supporting the National Year of Reading by Going All In with a series of live events and resources linked to the educational calendar and my books.

My 2026 National Year of Reading :

Your chance to GO ALL In with one of my books with a special film to watch with The Book Stop from 26 Jan 2026. FREE Watch link here

Watch link here  

Look out for the GO All IN logo on my book webpages for resources

Find out more about which books I’ll be focusing on each month here 

Holocaust Memorial Day Tuesday 27 Jan 2026

I am working again with the National Literacy Trust with KS2 and KS3 resources to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in 2026.

• 10:00 – 10:45am 27 January 2026 – Holocaust Memorial Day live assembly with the National Literacy Trust.  Join me and special guest, Ruth Barnett to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The free event will focus on Ruth’s experience of travelling to England as part of the Kindertransport.    FREE Book now https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/holocaust-memorial-day/

• Five Words : Anschluss, Kristallnacht, Kindertransport, Refugee, Alien
  I have written a new 5 part story for schools to read aloud, based on “My Darling Diary”, the real Kindertransport and wartime journal of a girl called Inga from her life first in Vienna, Austria 1937-39 and then in Falmouth, Cornwall 1939-1944. FREE Available now https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/holocaust-memorial-day/

• In addition – you can find extra source materials : including Primary sources such as a flip book of Inga’s family tree, photos & records, Listen to an interview with Inga, See Inga’s doll held by the Imperial War Museum and more all from here https://tompalmer.co.uk/holocaust-memorial-day/  I am extremely grateful to Inga and her immediate and wider family for the support they have given us with this project and to UCL Centre for Holocaust Education for their expertise.

For more info and reminders on when it is available go to here tompalmer.co.uk/holocaust-memorial-day/

World Book Day 2026 Thursday 5 March 2026

I am offering Hot Seat Q&As personalised to your class or school and answering all your pupil’s questions!

These will be pre-recorded for you to share in your own time.

• More about my author visits here www.tompalmer.co.uk/schools-librarians/author-visits/

For availability & fees, please email admin@tompalmer.co.uk

2026 Author Visits

I am available for in-person and virtual author visits with a focus on reading and writing about history and/or sport.

More about my author visits here www.tompalmer.co.uk/schools-librarians/author-visits/

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Exciting News! I am the Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading Ambassador for 2026. I’ll be visiting all corners of Cornwall and hope to celebrate the National Year of Reading with your families.

My family and I are delighted to have become Cornish residents and I’ll be visiting as many schools and libraries, bookshops and festival across Cornwall as I can throughout 2026.

Meet me in person

My Cornwall Libraries Tour ...

FREE 30 mins meet the author

Sat 23 May 2026
10am Hayle  11.30am Camborne
1pm Redruth

Mon 25 May 2026
2 pm Waterstones Truro

My Cornwall Libraries Tour continues ...

Tues 26 May 2026
10am Bodmin
11.30am Wadebridge
1pm Bude  2.30pm Camelford

Wed 27 May 2026
10.30am St Columb  11.45am Newquay  1pm Perranporth
2.30pm St Agnes

Thurs 28 May 2026
10am St Just  11.30am Penzance  1pm St Ives

Fri 29 May 2026
10am Helston  11.30am Falmouth  1pm Penryn  2.30pm Truro

Sat 30 May 2026
9am Lostwithiel  10.15am Fowey  11.45am St Austell

Mon 1 June 2026
10am Looe  11.30am Liskeard  1pm Saltash  2.30pm Torpoint

Tues 2 June 2026
10am Callington  11.30am Launceston  1.30pm Par

Also …

Saturday 6 June 2027
Come and find me at the Cornwall Libraries stand at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, PL27 7JE

Watch Cornwall Libraries National Year of Reading 2026 

January 2026 

Kick off your national year of reading with my FREE 5 part story to readaloud based on the real wartime journal of a girl called Inga from her life first in Vienna, Austria 1937-39 and then in Falmouth, Cornwall 1939-1944.  More here

Saturday 24 January 2026
Perranporth Library opening

I loved reading from my new book and meeting readers at the grand opening of their amazing new library!

I hope to be visiting all the libraries of Cornwall this summer.

Spring 2026

Hosted the book quiz for Cornwall Libraries at Bodmin.

May 2026 NEW Cornish book

I am currently writing a Cornish Trilogy for children, set in the Second World War. The new series will be called Allies.

Book 1 is called If The Invader Comes and is out in May 2026.

“A gripping Cornish wartime story” – Cornwall Libraries

Follow my Cornish journey of researching & writing Allies here. 

June 1940, with the spectre of a Nazi invasion looming over Britain, three Cornish children are forced into an unlikely allyship in this gripping wartime tale.

After the devastating defeat of the British forces at Dunkirk, the terrifying prospect of a Nazi invasion of Britain seems ever more likely.

In these dark days, the parents of Bobble, Cadan and Cilla are involved in vital but top-secret war work, and they need their children’s help to keep their activities hidden. The unlikely trio initially struggle to trust one another, but when Cadan spots a German E-boat during a Fal River patrol and Cilla discovers a crashed Stuka on a Cornish RAF airfield, they realise the menace is closer than they thought.

More here.  Pre-order on Amazon now here 

Summer 2026 Library tour of Cornwall

Saturday 6 June 2027
Come and find me at the Cornwall Libraries stand at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, PL27 7JE

Tom says” It is my absolute honour to be the National Year of Reading ambassador for Cornwall Libraries. Cornwall is my favourite place on earth and where my family and I will be living permanently from January onwards. I also love libraries. Libraries changed my life and gave me access to the books that gave me access to the world. So this is a perfect role for me. I will do everything I can to champion Cornwall’s libraries and all the good work they do.”

Councillor Sarah Preece, Cabinet Member for Libraries and Culture at Cornwall Council, added: “This partnership is a fantastic boost for Cornwall’s National Year of Reading. With Tom’s involvement, we’ll reach young people and encourage them to connect with stories that reflect their own interests and passions. It’s wonderful to see Cornwall’s Libraries highlighting that reading can be sparked by what people love the most.”

My other stories set in Cornwall

I’ve already set a children’s book in Cornwall from my Defenders series, published by Barrington Stoke.

In Pitch Invasion, Seth and Nadiya specialise in solving ghostly hauntings at football venues, which take them to settings including an Iron Age Celtic hill fort, Cornwall. (Based on

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More of my books set in the South West …

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100 copies 30% + discount

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Tom says “I am very, very happy to be an SLA Patron. I have worked with school librarians for nearly 20 years and have seen how they change lives and give children a better chance, through finding them the right reading material and by simply being there. Librarians and the School Library Association are integral to the world of children’s books, and it is my privilege to help champion what they do.”

The School Library Association (SLA) supports schools nationwide in developing their library provision through advice, resources, and training, connecting school librarians with professional development opportunities and outstanding books and authors.

Tom says” I am delighted my new picture book War Dog is under the spotlight in the Winter issue of The School Librarian, landing on the doorsteps of members and subscribers in early December.”

FREE Live Lesson 21st Jan 2026

Kick start the National Year of Reading with a Live Lesson together. In this 45 minute online event, designed to be streamed into a classroom or school library, I will draw on my own reading journey and experience as an author to share inspiration and ideas for KS2 and KS3 children to connect their interests to books and read more about what they love. This is a free event, exclusively available to SLA members. Register now.

SLA CEO Victoria Dilly said: “Very few people understand how to engage children in reading like Tom Palmer does. Tom’s proven passion for getting books into the hands of all children, and his knowledge of the vital role school libraries and school librarians play in encouraging reading for pleasure make him a perfect Patron for the SLA. I am thrilled to be working with Tom as we continue our mission to ensure all children and young people can fulfil their potential through the school library.”

Jane Walker, Sales and Marketing Director at Barrington Stoke said, “Tom has been a hugely important author on the Barrington Stoke list for many years, with a special ability to teach those readers who perhaps need his books the most. We are excited for what can be achieved when such a dream partnership work together to amplify the role of school libraries in inspiring and encouraging all kinds of readers.”

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas :
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper book pack
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Free Delivery

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Schools class set offer

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

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An ideal Christmas gift!

All my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

And each order made through the Thoughtful Spot will come with a special Christmas Card and bookmark. 

This year’s exclusive watercolour illustration was designed by our good friend James Innerdale to mark the publication of my War Dog.

Books can be simply signed by me or using their website you can specify a message like “To Nadiya, Happy Christmas” for me to add by hand.

You can contact the “The Thoughtful Spot”  here for more information and to order.

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

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For the last fifteen years I have asked teachers, TAs and librarians if they would be kind enough to nominate a child they think would benefit from the gift of a book for Christmas.

My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2025. 

The Christmas Books
Each book will be personally dedicated, signed, gift-wrapped and will come with a Christmas card from me.  The Christmas card will have this year’s exclusive illustration taking inspiration from  my latest book by the wonderful Yorkshire artist James Innerdale.

I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is successful.

The Children
Our idea is to work with schools and libraries to help us gift books to fifty children.  Short applications are invited from teachers, TAs and librarians, nominating children as follows:

• who have had a difficult year at school or home in the hope that a book would be a boost for them
• who do not have any books at home
• who one special book might help engage them with a lifetime of reading for pleasure.

Applying teachers, TAs and librarians are also asked to select which of my books for children they feel is most appropriate.

Their Privacy
All nominations will be kept in confidence and it is up to you exactly how privately you wish to give the books over.

You will be under no obligation to disclose to the child why they are receiving the book or to present it to them publicly.

The nomination process for applying adults
If you’d like to nominate a child, please email the following information as follows to admin@tompalmer.co.uk by Sunday 23rd November 2024: 

1. the child’s name (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
2. a short paragraph explaining why you are nominating that child (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
3. your choice of book for them from one of my books listed at https://tompalmer.co.uk/about-tom/books-for-children/.
4. your name and school address (where I will send the book)

We will respond ASAP to all applications as soon as we can on receipt.  My family and I will choose the recipients and notify all applying teachers, TAs and librarians of the outcome by the end of November and we aim to have the books dispatched to schools in the first week of December 2025.

I am sorry, we cannot promise to send a book to every child nominated. We have set an upper limit of 50.  But I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is successful.

(For more information about special offer schools book packs, FREE signed bookplates and signed books to purchase as gifts see here. )

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop

Schools bumper book pack
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33 books for £200

Saving £73

Over 25% discount

Free Delivery

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Schools class set offer

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

Thank you.

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This year’s Remembrance Sunday will be marked on 9th November, with Armistice Day on Tuesday 11^th November 2025.

To help schools mark the occasion and link it to developing literacy in the classroom, I offer these FREE resources for schools to use based around my books …

• My annual Remembrance Day film .

I will be speaking by the memorial to a pointer called Judy, hero of WW2 and my new picture book War Dog.

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning , we will remember them.” Laurence Binyon

Link to be posted here shortly

• 11 am Thursday 6 November 2025 

Pause and reflect this Remembrance Day with Tom Palmer and Carolina Rabei FREE

A Scholastic Book Club Live event including a live drawing of Judy from illustrator, Carolina Rabei. Tom and Carolina will be doing a Q&A session during the event. Schools are encouraged to speak with classes and prepare questions in advance.  FREE 5 +

Register Now here.

• My virtual event with Mr Dilly Tuesday 11 November 2025, 10 am

Join us for an online event to mark the end of the Second World War with Mr Dilly, FREE 

Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3

Book now here. 

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My books about various sections of the Armed Forces:

• Royal Navy Arctic Star War Dog
• Army Over the Line, Armistice Runner and The Last Try
• RAF Flyboy, Spitfire, Typhoon and Rugby Academy
• the Reserves and Paratroopers D-Day Dog
• Prisoners of War War Dog

Since 2019 the red poppy has paid tribute to civilian victims of war and “acts of terrorism”, alongside the armed forces.

Angel of Grasmere is set at the start of the Second World War in Britain featuring the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and the fear of Nazi invasion for a group of three village and evacuee children in the Lake District.

Resist is my historical story for children about the impact on a homefront civilian occupation in WW2, based on the real Dutch Resistance experiences of Audrey Hepburn.

My books about both World Wars and children of today’s serving members of the Armed Forces :  

• First World War – Read  Over the Line,  Flyboy and Armistice Runner
• Second World War – Read Resist, Spitfire, D-Day Dog, Arctic Star, After the War ,  Angel of Grasmere and War Dog
• 21^st century Armed Forces – Typhoon, D-Day Dog

More WW1 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/first-world-war-literacy-resources/

• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Be a Trench Runner memory challenge game for the school hall.
• Black out poetry sheets with instructions and certificates.
• 10 discussion points about war for Y5 to Y9.
• Book cover prediction sheets with questions encouraging the children to think about what a book might be about.

More WW2 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/second-world-war-literacy-resources/

• Downloadable posters.
• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Videos about the settings of my books, filmed at the Somme and on the D-Day beaches.

• D-Day Dog Blackout Poem Challenge Introduction and how to guide to create your own Blackout Poems, including suggested texts, examples and a certificate. Download here

Here’s a recap of materials from previous years …

Signed certificate to present to pupils for their reading for pleasure or any achievements relating to Remembrance Day.

Download here

My 2024 Remembrance Day film was recorded at the site of an aircrash of one of the hundreds of Allied planes that crashed in the countryside during the defence of Britain during the Second World War, some miles away from villages and roads, many hundreds of feet high up mountains and fells. Thousands of airmen were killed and severely injured. Many sites have memorials to those lost. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning , we will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
Remembrance virtual event

• With a two-minute silence to mark the Armistice
• Art, music, poetry, veteran interviews creating a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience
• Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3
• Live Zoom webinar with National Literacy Trust and the Royal British Legion

Catch up now here …

My 2023 assembly message was about the real First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors that have inspired the characters in my books.  It is for use in the hall or for schools to stream throughout classrooms.

• “The Barnbow Lasses” – a  FREE 3 part readaloud story with resources.  Download here. 

And you can read this great blog from Amy McKinlay, P1-3 teacher at Kettins Primary School …  How to make Remembrance Day memorable in the classroom – Scottish Book Trust

My 2022 Remembrance message was about the First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors – from across the Commonwealth – that have inspired the characters in my books, particularly from India and Canada :
My 2021 Remembrance message was filmed from the Arctic Convoy War Memorial at Liverpool Parish Church

My 2020 Remembrance message was filmed from my local war memorial about the real soldiers, sailors and airman who inspired my books:

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang   
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers       
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my  bookshop  or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 33 book pack
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33 books
£194 saving £63 – over 25% discount
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Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

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War Dog souvenir reader’s pack

To celebrate the forthcoming publication of my debut picture book, War Dog,  I am offering a limited number of special souvenir reader’s packs containing:

• a special signed bookplate – with optional dedication “To …”,  if requested below
• a signed postcard
• bookmarks of my other historical fiction
• a poster of my other historical fiction

War Dog – 
The True Story of Judy, hero of WW2
My debut picture book is the true story of one dog’s incredible bravery, set in the Second World War in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War. After the fall of Singapore, Judy and her crew become prisoners of war. More here

Tom Palmer (Author)
Carolina Rabei (Illustrator)

Published by Scholastic
14 August 2025
ISBN 0702325945

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