Year 8
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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 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 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 613
The Ruby In The Smoke
The first book in Philip Pullman's classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 30 year anniversary. Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives an anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 220
The Truth Of Things
A stunning collected edition of Anthony McGowan's critically acclaimed novellas Brock, Pike and the Carnegie Medal-shortlisted Rook.
Life is pretty tough for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum is gone and their dad has had his troubles. Money is tight...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 692
Through The Looking Glass
"I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." The sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND sees Alice return to the fantastical world where chaos is king (or ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 689
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins is the son of the innkeepers of the Admiral Benbow near Devon and becomes fascinated by a mysterious lodger, the old seaman Billy Bones. It soon becomes apparent to Jim that Billy Bones is in hiding from a man with one wooden leg and he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 140
Welcome To Nowhere
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 614
While The Storm Rages
September 1939. The world is on the brink of war. As his dad marches off to fight, Noah makes him a promise, to keep their beloved family dog safe.
When the government advises people to have their pets put down in readiness for the chaos of war, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 664