Wiseman, David

Twelve-year-old Matthew is drawn almost against his will to help a boy his own age who was lost in a mining disaster a century before.

When Blodwen and her family learn that the countryside around their peaceful village is threatened by highway-builders, they ally themselves unknowingly with the Guardians of the tombs of long-dead chieftains, who fear nothing so much as humans and their destructive ways.

An impulsive prank leaves an English schoolgirl in possession of a box of personal effects belonging to a now-dead suffragette, whose diary fills her mind and her dreams with vivid scenes of the struggle for women's voting rights in England in 1909.

Twelve-year-old Matthew is drawn almost against his will to help a boy his own age who was lost in a mining disaster a century before.