The Cinnamon Tree

by Aubrey Flegg

  His first book was Katie’s War, which won the IBBY Sweden Peter Pan Award 2000. It was followed by The Cinnamon Tree. Aubrey then began the Louise trilogy, with Wings Over Delft, which won the Bisto Book of the Year Award 2004, Ireland’s most prestigious children’s literature prize, and is included in the White Ravens 2004 – a selection of outstanding international books for children and young adults made by the International Youth Library in Munich. The second part of the trilogy, The Rainbow Bridge, was published in 2004, and the third and final part, In the Claws of the Eagle, in 2006. Aubrey’s books have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish and Serbian.

  Copyright

  This eBook edition first published 2012 by The O’Brien Press Ltd,

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  First published 2000

  eBook ISBN: 978–1–84717–490–1

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  British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  Flegg, A.M.

  The cinnamon tree : a novel set in Africa

  1.Land mines - Africa - Juvenile fiction 2.Children’s stories

  I.Title

  823.9’14[J]

  The O’Brien Press receives

  assistance from

  Editing, typesetting, layout, design: The O’Brien Press Ltd

  Front cover, background image: Angela Clarke

  Front cover, photograph of girl: Corbis

  Printing: Nørhaven Paperback A/S

  DISCLAIMER

  This book is a work of fiction. Characters, incidents and

  names have no connection with any country, organisation

  or persons alive or dead. Any apparent resemblance is

  purely coincidental.