CathyFaulkner
children's author
Selected by:
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Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils 2024 – 2025
Featured in:
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The Sunday Times Best Books for Children 2023 – May 2023
Winner of:
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Redhill Academy Trust Children’s Book Award 2023 – 2024 (Librarian’s Choice)
Longlisted for:
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Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024
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Branford Boase Award 2024
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UKLA Book Awards 2024
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North East Book Awards 2024
Shortlisted for:
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The Week Junior Book Awards 2024
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Oxfordshire Book Awards 2024
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The Literally Brilliant Book Award 2025
Digging for Victory
Set in Devon in 1941, Digging for Victory tells the story of twelve-year-old Bonnie Roberts who is desperate to play a valuable part in the war effort. For her, tending the family vegetable patch just doesn’t cut it; she wants to be a hero like her RAF pilot brother, Ralph.
But when the mysterious Mr Fisher is billeted at her farmhouse, and Ralph is reported missing in action, she starts to question what heroism actually involves. And as Bonnie attempts to find out who Mr Fisher really is, she embarks on a life-changing and emotional voyage of discovery.
Appealing to fans of Phil Earle and Emma Carroll, Digging for Victory is an emotional rollercoaster that brings verse fiction to a middle-grade audience.
Mr Fisher?
Mother asks, untying her apron.
He holds out his hand and gives a quick nod
but his face looks as frosty as the frozen fields behind him.
Come in, come in!
Mother shuts the door, hurriedly puts another log on the fire and the kettle on the stove.
But the cold has come in now.
And somehow, I think it’s here to stay.
