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Pauline Francis

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I love books. I translated them when I lived in Africa – and I worked with them when I was a teacher and a librarian, but I never thought about writing them.

One day, about ten years ago, I decided to become a full-time writer.

My first books were for younger readers. In Drake’s Drummer Boy (1998), Will sails around the world with Sir Francis Drake; in Sam Stars at Shakespeare’s Globe (2006), Sam works with William Shakespeare.

As you can see, the sixteenth century fascinates me. A few years ago, I started to write for older readers, about people who faced very tough decisions in a world that was changing quickly: Lady Jane Grey, in Raven Queen; the lost colonists in A World Away; and the young Elizabeth in Traitor’s Kiss.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 928 ratings · 89 reviews · 61 distinct works

	White Fang by Pauline Francis (Retold by), Jack London 4.06 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Raven Queen 3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea by Pauline Francis (Adapter), Jules Verne 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Midwich Cuckoos: Fast Track Classics by Pauline Francis (Retold by), John Wyndham 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	World Away 2.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, Pauline Francis 3.69 avg rating — 26,198 ratings — published 1864 — 517 editions	My rating:
	Count Dracula (Fast Track Classics Series) by Pauline Francis (Retold by), Bram Stoker 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Traitor's Kiss. 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Frankenstein by Pauline Francis (Adapter), Gary Andrews (Illustrator), Mary Shelley 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 73,898 ratings — published -750 — 778 editions	My rating:

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