Black powder by ally sherrick5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Reading partly like a incredibly fun history lesson of how Protestants and Catholics fought one another under the reign of a manipulated King, Ally Sherrick brilliantly weaves Tom’s fictional story (about his father helping a Catholic priest so therefore committing a heinous crime to be hanged for) into the 1605 gunpowder plot. The mysterious man is called The Falcon and I won’t be giving anything away to say this man turns out to be a certain Guy Fawkes on his way to try and blow up Parliament with his gang of fanatical Roman Catholics. Sneaking around one night, Tom meets a man smuggling some barrels of gunpowder and is promptly captured by him. Poverty-stricken Tom and his little pet mouse, Jago, discover they have rich relatives, and – amongst the backdrop of a Catholic-hating society – they try to persuade that family to help them stop his dad being hung. Black Powder by Ally Sherrick is a really fun, indulging and involving gunpowder plot adventure where a boy called Tom Garnett sets out to rescue his father from the hangman’s noose. ![]()
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