No. of pages 304
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .
Candy Gourlay was born in Manila during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos; after working as a journalist for some years, she moved to the UK in her twenties. Candy is now a full-time writer across a range of medium; short stories, blogs, websites, journalistic features and radio programmes. TALL STORY is Candy's first full-length published novel.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Waterstones Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Waterstones Children's Book Award.
Blue Peter Book Award
This book was recognised in the Favourite Stories category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.