Secondary Class Sets
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The Art Of Being Normal
Two outsiders. Two secrets.
David longs to be a girl. Leo wants to be invisible.
When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School, secrets have a funny habit ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 668
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 516
- MBE Code : 512
The Boxer
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny. A seventeen year old feeling isolated and disconnected in the city he's just moved to, Sunny joins a boxing club to learn to protect himself after a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 280
- MBE Code : 501
The Boy At The Back Of The Class
WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019Â WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 298
- MBE Code : 195
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 409
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
The endearing character of Bruno, is just a nine-year-old boy, who knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.
He is oblivious to all of the appalling cruelties which are being afflicted on the people of Europe. By his Country. And all ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 228
- MBE Code : 110
The Boy Who Fooled The World
The brand new, read-in-one-sitting mystery from the bestselling author of The Goldfish Boy.
When a little white lie leads to a huge dose of trouble...
Cole is the odd one out at school: the other kids have the latest gadgets and trainers while...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 456
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream.
He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word.
A tough career for anyone, but surely ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 360
- MBE Code : 444
The Boy Who Steals Houses
Can two broken boys find their perfect home? By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this is a gorgeously told, powerful story.Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 348
- MBE Code : 584
The Boy With Wings: Clash Of The Superkids
Wings? Check.
A super-cool, super-secret past? Check.
An impossible mission to save the world from a super evil enemy? Check.
When Tunde’s parents take him to a top-secret testing facility called The Complex, he’s nervous about meeting ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 660
The Breadwinner
Afghanistan: Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own.
Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home. With no man to go ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 369
The Catcher in the Rye
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 372
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Crossing (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
The sea carries our pain. The stars carry our future.Natalie's world is falling apart. She's just lost her mum and her brother marches the streets of Dover full of hate and anger. Swimming is her only refuge.Sammy has fled his home and family in ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 308
- MBE Code : 452
The Crucible
Arthur Miller has created a classic storyline of a building hysteria, which extracts a frightening parallel between the Salem Witch-Hunt of 1692 and the American anti-communist purges, which were led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s.
Described to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 175
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
Christopher is a 15-year-old boy who lives in Swindon, just him and his father. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of Autism.
He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but he finds it hard to understand other people.
However, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 122
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – The Play, Critical Scripts
This schools' edition of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel adapted for the stage of the National Theatre by Simon Stephens is perfect for Key Stages 3 and 4. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 247
The Day I Was Erased
The third read-in-one-sitting mystery from the author of unforgettable bestseller The Goldfish Boy.
Maxwell is always in trouble. He's a total menace to his teachers and big sister, but has a soft side, too: he rescued his dog, Monster, from being...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 417
The Day of the Triffids
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 354
The Door Of No Return (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 583
The Fastest Boy in the World
Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet.
When his grandfather ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 420
The Foreshadowing
It is 1915, WWI. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift: she can see the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 443
The Girl of Ink and Stars
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize & the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year
Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella dreams of the faraway lands her cartographer father once mapped. When her friend disappears, she ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 388
The Giver
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.
It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 202
The Goldfish Boy
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 158