Secondary Class Sets
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High Rise Mystery
The detective duo everyone is dying to meet! Summer in London is hot, the hottest on record, and there's been a murder in THE TRI: the high-rise home to resident know-it-alls, Nik and Norva. Who better to solve the case? Armed with curiosity, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 563
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights
The first volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO television series. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, this first book in the series won the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 448
- MBE Code : 344
Holes
Holes is based around the family of Stanley Yelnats, who have a longing history of bad luck. And when a miscarriage of justice sends him to the Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre.
Which by the way isn't green and does not have a lake…
...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 127
Horowitz Horror: The Ultimate Collection
Welcome to a strange and twisted world where the spooky, the shocking, and the positively petrifying are lurking just out of sight.A bus ride home ... turns into your worst nightmare.A quaint country cottage ... has a grisly secret.A hot bath ... ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 378
- MBE Code : 500
I Am Malala
Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 346
I Must Betray You (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everything he loves to resist? A bestselling YA thriller based on real events, from a prizewinning author.
Cristian has lived his entire life in the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 523
I’m The King Of The Castle
‘I didn’t want you to come here.’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 131
In the Sea there are Crocodiles
One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs or weapons, don't cheat, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone at the border of Pakistan...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 395
Journey to Jo’burg
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid.
Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 385
Journey’s End
Journey’s End is an unflinching vision of life, which is dedicated around the surrounding trenches towards the end of the First World War, and published to you in Penguin Classic, here at MBE.
Concerned around a group of British officers, who ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 171
Keedie
As Keedie and her twin Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and fiercely protective of, their quiet younger sister Addie – who on the surface is the opposite of loud and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 615
Kensukes Kingdom
A captivating text that is sure to be loved by every drama-lover out there. The story of Kensuke's Kingdom includes beautiful new colour illustrations and tells the story of a young boy named Michael, who finds himself in the deathly struggle of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 228
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is a modern classic which reflects one woman’s struggle to come to terms with the haunting memories of her past.Savagely separated from her German-Jewish parents, nine-year-old Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 111
King Of Shadows
I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries . . .Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 224
Leave Taking
In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late - 3 p.m.-the-next-day late - is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines.
When Enid takes her ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 520
Long Way Down **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS, Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight.
Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us.
After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 322
- MBE Code : 223
Looking For JJ
An emotionally searing novel that will grip every reader from start to finish. The storyline of Looking For JJ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child, which was done by her own friend.
Now six years on, JJ has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 300
- MBE Code : 176
Martyn Pig
His name is Martyn Pig, his name may be bad… But his life is even worse, it is filled with nothing but misery and it has always been that way.
His mother is gone. His father hates him. But at least things can't get any worse. Or so he thought…...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 188
Maybe
It's 1946. The war is over and Europe lies in ruins. Fourteen year old Felix dreams of finding happiness elsewhere. When he's offered the chance to go to Australia, he seizes the opportunity. So does someone very dear to him, even though she wasn't ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 556
Millions
Defined to be an absolute treasure! Millions includes the characters of Damian and Anthony, who are brothers that are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro.
Finding themselves with a sudden vast ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 172
Mortal Engines
MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future.The first instalment introduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 309
Moving Up
THE title to have for kids transitioning from primary to secondary school.
Moving up from primary to secondary school can be scary. Going from being the bosses of the benches, to the youngest in a massive playground is hard.
The classrooms are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 612
My Name Is Leon
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 519
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, is based around the time of five years ago, when Jamie’s sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. And as an act of grief, the family were torn apart.
His mum ran away,
His dad turns to drink and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 234
- MBE Code : 201
My Swordhand Is Singing
Written by the talented Marcus Sedgwick and set in the 17th century, My Swordhand Is Singing is based around the inspiration of the original vampire folk of Eastern Europe.
Featuring Tomas and his son Peter, they arrive in Chust, but there are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 231