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Big Apple Book Club: True Escape Stories by Paul Dowswell
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Paul Dowswell specializes in children's information books. As well as writing many history books for Wayland he also wrote 'Usborne's Medieval Messanger' which was short-listed for the 1997 Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award.
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