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The Night Bus Hero
I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention.But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 435
The Night Diary
It''s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
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- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 264
- MBE Code : 793
The Odyssey
The classic that inspired the latest blockbuster movie. The epic journey of Odysseus, the hero of Ancient Greece...
After ten years of war, Odysseus turns his back on Troy and sets sail for home. But his voyage takes another ten years and he must ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 404
The Other Side Of Truth (Carnegie Medal Winner)
This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to London, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 256
The Outrage
"You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we'd gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open minds could be closed again? But then the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 396
- MBE Code : 454
The Outsiders
The Outsiders is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion, written when the author was only 17 years old. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.
Youngsters in a small Oklahoma town have split into two gangs, divided ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 213
The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures)
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 818
The Prince Of Mist
The year is 1943 and as the war sweeps across Europe. Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen… Max discovers a garden filled with eerie ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 206
The Remains of the Day
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past...
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 422
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 Silver Sword
The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe.
Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As they travel through Europe ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 386
The Skylarks War **Costa Children’s Book Award Winner**
The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 306
- MBE Code : 197
The Small Things
Anna’s anxious when she’s picked to befriend the new girl in her class. For a start, Ellie is ill and can’t come to school herself. So Anna has to communicate with her through a new kind of robot. But Anna is also worried that her life’s too ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 100
- MBE Code : 494
The Tattooist Of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. When Lale, given the job of tattooing the prisoners, saw Gita waiting in line, it was love at first sight. In that moment he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 674
The Terrible Thing That Happened To Barnaby Brocket
There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way. But when Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it's clear he's anything but ordinary. To his parents’ horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity -...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 798
The Thief Of Always
Mr. Hood’s Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied.
There is a price to be paid, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 228
- MBE Code : 353
The Things We Leave Behind (Carnegie Shortlisted 2025)
Carnegie Shortlisted 2025
Civil unrest in London has reached an all-time high after years of a growing authoritarian regime, and it’s no longer safe for Clem and her half-sister Billie in the city. Clem tells of their treacherous journey to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 726
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
It's 19th Century England, Good King James III is on the throne, and the whole country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel.
When young orphans Bonnie and Sylvia get caught by the governess, Miss ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 576
The Woman In Black
Author Kipps is a junior solicitor, who is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of the Eel Marsh House.
This house stands towards the end of a causeway, that is wreathed in multitudes of fog and mystery… But ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 118
Then
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 182
- MBE Code : 560
There’s A Boy In The Girls’ Bathroom
Meet Bradley Chalkers. He's the oldest child in the class. He tells ENORMOUS lies. He picks fights with girls. The teachers say he has 'serious behaviour problems'. And no one likes him ... Except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 194
- MBE Code : 429
They Both Die At The End
On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 374
- MBE Code : 455
Things A Bright Girl Can Do
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book PrizeThrough rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 420
- MBE Code : 222
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 617
This Book Kills
“I’ll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn’t even help. Well, not intentionally.”
When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary’s school, is found dead, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 382
- MBE Code : 616