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Authors: Susan Green
Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand (28 page)
Howard and Lachlan, for their love and support.
Susan Green lives in the historic gold rush town of Castlemaine in Central Victoria with her husband, son and Gus the miniature schnauzer. She has been a teacher, radio producer, youth worker, cook and bookseller, but she knew she wanted to be a writer by the time she was eight years old. She has written many books for children and young adults. The first Verity adventure,
The Truth about Verity Sparks
, was awarded Honour Book for Younger Readers at the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, 2012. A sequel,
Verity Sparks, Lost and Found
was published in 2013.
Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand
is her third book with Walker Books. To find out more about Susan and Verity, go to www.veritysparks.com
Published in 2015
by Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd
Locked Bag 22, Newtown
NSW 2042 Australia
This ebook edition published in 2015
The moral rights of the author have been asserted.
Text © 2015 Susan Green
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the publisher.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Green, Susan, author.
Verity Sparks and the scarlet hand / Susan Green.
Series: Green, Susan. Verity Sparks; 3.
For primary school age.
Subjects: Kidnapping – Juvenile fiction.
Suspense fiction.
A823.3
ISBN: 978-1-925126-48-8 (ePub/mobi)
ISBN: 978-1-925126-25-9 (e-PDF)
Cover illustration © 2015 Lisa Coutts
Cover images (black-lace-floral-design ) © Incomible/Shutterstock.com
Cover image (sunset sky background ) © Olha Insight/Shutterstock.com
London. 1878.
Verity Sparks has an extraordinary talent: she can find lost things just by thinking about them.
When she joins a Confidential Inquiry Agency, she discovers there is a mystery lurking in her own past and that unknown forces are working against her. It soon becomes clear that veirty and her friends are in great danger.
Who doesn’t want them to learn the truth about Veirty Sparks?
The Truth About Verity Sparks
was awarded Honour Book for Younger Readers, CBCA Book of the Year Awards, 2012
Melbourne. 1879.
Verity Sparks has found her father. But she has lost her gift – the ability to find lost things.
Papa Savinov, eager for Verity to become a proper lady, sends her to the exclusive boarding school Hightop House. But Verity is more interested in solving the case of the missing Ecclethorpe heiress.
As the investigation deepens, danger and intrigue grow closer. Will Verity’s gift return before it’s too late?
Verity Sparks, Lost and Found
was short-listed in the Best Children’s Novel category of the Davitt Awards, 2014