Robert Swindells

Link is a homeless 16 year old living on the streets of London who finds a friend in streetwise Ginger, and life becomes more bearable, until she disappears.

Stone Cold

Fliss has a nightmare about Room 13 on the night before her school trip. When she arrives at Whitby, the hotel looks familiar. Fliss realises that it is the house in her dream, except there is no Room 13. But at the stroke of midnight changes take place and Fliss and her friends are drawn into danger. For lower Key Stage 3 students.

Room 13

Martha, an unpopular girl for her meek personality and homemade clothes, meets Scott, the new boy at school, and reveals to him her strict religious home life and the secret called Abomination kept in her basement.

Abomination

A survivor of a nuclear holocaust, Danny is one of the lucky ones - or is he? Danny and his younger brother, Ben, have come through the holocaust alive, only to discover that the world has gone sour in more ways than one. Survival depends on being able to live on your wits, outsmarting the rest and fighting to protect your home and family. For days, weeks, the survivors hang on, hoping for help to arrive. But when the authorities finally put in an appearance, help is the last thing they bring.

Brother in the Land

Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.

The Ice Palace

When Kirsty begins having dreams of being pushed down the stairs, she investigates the falling death of her grandmother and questions if it had been an accident or murder.

Nightmare Stairs

Inside the Worm

Branded

Wrecked

Set in the near future, two young lovers meet from divided communities who struggle to keep contact across the divide

Daz 4 Zoe

ROOM 13 Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing. There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room twelve. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister. INSIDE THE WORM The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her. Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance.

Room 13 And Inside The Worm

The lives of four sixteen-year-old boys are affected by a growing fondness for alcohol. Mark is the son of a domineering father, MD of a large brewing company. The other three pay local winos to obtain drink for them. All the boys are awaiting their GCSE results and the action unfolds in the course of a day or two either side of these results being published, culminating in tragedy when the boys' paths converge at the club owned by Mark's father.

What's the hook? The intriguing and thought-provoking parallel narratives gives quite unique perspectives on the subject of homelessness. What are the themes? Prejudice, courage, survival, family, loyalty, homelessness and injustice. Cross-curricular links to history, geography and PSHE are strong. Teaching points? The intriguing and thought-provoking parallel narratives of Nikki in the present day and Nick in the mid-nineteenth century make this an ideal text for Key Stage 3 offering excellent cross-curricular links. Linguistic discussion is provoked by the extensive use of historical dialect.

No Angels

The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her...Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...

A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction. Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomination - could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder. Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths

A thrilling series for younger readers which will introduce them to the second world war as seen and experienced by three ordinary children. AUTHOR: Robert Swindells is a popular Carnegie Medal-winning author, who has also twice won the prestigious Children's Book Award for his page-turning, powerful novels for children and teenagers. Illustrated

Doodlebug Alley

PERIL IN THE MIST 'The Outfit ' # 5 in the series A challenging hike across five remote moors is just the sort of adventure The Outfit love. But when they find themselves alone on the moors as mist descends and night falls, will the Outfit be able to oversome their greatest challenge yet? "It was quite dark now, and the tain was still falling. They struck out across the invisible terrain and almost at once, without knowing it, left the track to follow a path which led only to some long-abanfoned quarries" Read all of The Outfit's thrilling adventures! THE SECRET OF WEEPING WOOD WE DIDN'T MEAN TO - HONEST! THE GHOSTS OF GIVENHAM KEEP PERIL IN THE MIST THE STRANGE TALE OF RAGGER BILL KIDNAP AT FENTON FARM

Peril in the Mist

Now you see them, now you don't... What would you do if you could become invisible? Creep around, unseen? Listen in to other people's conversations? Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte do all these things, and much more, when a new girl at school - Rosie - shows them her secret: how to make yourself invisible. It's exciting, and it's fun. It can also be frightening... and dangerous. Especially when Rosie's dad becomes a suspect in a local crime and the gang go invisible to find the real crooks...

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