Toby Tucker has a huge secret. He owns a magical chest filled with torn paper, and a strange message: Piece your family tree together and you'll find out who you are and when you come from. When he manages to put together a name, the most incredible magic happens. Toby travels back in time and becomes his ancestor! He's been to Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Tudor and Victorian London so far. In this final adventure, Toby shoots back in time to the Second World War, into Fred Barrow's life, and finds himself hogging all the pig swill, doing his bit for the war effort: " I took a huge load of pig swill round to Len and Kath. They let me help with the pigs sometimes, but I just gave them a scratch (the pigs, not Len and Kath!) When I started all this salvage lark, I said I was going to do my bit by becoming the champion salvager, and by helping people while I did my rounds. Len and Kath need help, so I'll make sure they're never short of swill. The pigs love swill. They stick their heads right in it, and snort and snuffle! They're funny. I know they smell, but you don't notice after you've been round them a bit. It hits you when you first go near the sties, though."
After all this time travelling, will Toby find out who he really is?
This is Book 1 in the Toby Tucker S. Series. See all Toby Tucker S. books here.
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Valerie Wilding is an established writer of historical fiction and non fiction. She is a regular contributor to Scholastic's My Story series (Highway Girl, Road to War, Bloody Tower, To Kill a Queen) and Boudicca and her Barmy Army was published in their Dead Famous series. Her own series, The Princess Files, about real princesses, was published by OUP.
More about Valerie WildingMichael studied illustration at Portsmouth University graduating with a first class honours degree. He now works solely on writing and illustrating books for children of all ages. His first picture book was published by Puffin in 2006 and his first fiction series Jake Cake has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Michael loves dogs, c
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