Year 9
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One
A story reflecting on the life of two sisters who are in fact conjoined. Grace and Tippi are joined at the waist and have been defying the odds of their survival for sixteen years. United in blood and bone, they both don't like being stared and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 233
Poems Of The Decade
Poems of the Decade brings together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century.The Forwards are among the world's most coveted poetry honours. They have been...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 186
Pride And Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet finds her neighbour Fitzwilliam Darcy arrogant and conceited. The fact that he has meddled in the romantic relationship between her sister Jane and local aristocrat Charles Bingley makes him still more detestable. Darcy however is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 448
- MBE Code : 688
Private Peaceful
Aimed to provide students with the highest quality texts for the most effective learning in English Language. At MBE we provide every book in a free plastic cover, so you can ensure every title will be safe and protected through transport and for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 115
Punching The Air (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid’s bright future is upended:...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 386
- MBE Code : 449
Rat (Super-Readable Rollercoasters)
When his mum is sent back to prison, Al knows exactly who's to blame. Mr Brayker, who lives downstairs, has been making trouble for Al's mum ever since they moved in, and Al's determined to get his revenge. Ignoring advice from his gran and sister, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 152
- MBE Code : 684
Refugee Boy
Alem is on holiday with his father for a few days in London. He has never been out of Ethiopia before and is very excited. They have a great few days togther until one morning when Alem wakes up in the bed and breakfast they are staying at to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 183
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing up in the deep South. Set in Mississippi at the height of the American Depression, this is the story of a family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride and independence ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 343
Run, Rebel
I am restless, my feet need to fly.Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears.Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself.Freedom always comes at a price.Run, Rebel is a trailblazing ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 437
Salt To The Sea (Carnegie Medal Winner 2017)
Set in early 1945, a group of people make the decision to trek across Germany in a bound for their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land they live in. But this is the only opportunity they have left for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 245
Sawbones
Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 232
- MBE Code : 670
Steady For This (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
Yeah they call me Growls, I'm like a tiger on the prowl.
King of jungles so you better take a bow.
King of concrete so you better say it loud!
Shaun (aka MC Growls) is ready to drop his best bars and smash the competition at Raptology. That way,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 581
Teacher’s Dead
For young people dealing with ideas in a post-truth world, Benjamin Zephaniah's story of violence, truth and the media is as powerful and pertinent as when it was first published.
A teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 218
- MBE Code : 169
The 57 Bus
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both their lives forever.
Two teenagers growing up in Oakland, California. One, Sasha, was born male but identifies as agender, wears skirts and attends a private ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 567
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 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 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 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 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 Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 295
The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure.
A timeless classic.
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 211