Year 7
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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 David
You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 378
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 to the River Sea
Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal.Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters.It is 1910 and Maia, tragically...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 357
Kingdom by the Sea
When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 367
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
Me, My Dad And The End Of The Rainbow
My name’s Archie Albright, and I know two things for certain: 1. My mum and dad kind of hate each other, and they’re not doing a great job of pretending that they don’t anymore. 2. They’re both keeping a secret from me, but I can’t figure...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 332
- MBE Code : 465
Melissa (Previously George)
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. ...
- Book Cover : paperback
- Number Of Pages : 196
- MBE Code : 466
My Brothers Name Is Jessica
Sam has known his sister Jessica all his life. Tonight is the first time they’re going to meet.Sam Waver has always been a loner: bullied, struggling at school, with parents who have very little time for him. The one person he has always been able ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 242
- MBE Code : 467
My Name is Mina
Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 403
No Ballet Shoes in Syria
Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Award
Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asylum from war in Syria.
When Aya stumbles across a local ballet class, the formidable dance teacher ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 359
Now
ONCE
I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.
THEN
I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda.
NOW
I understand why Felix does the things he does.
At least he's got me. My name is Zelda too. This is our ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 166
- MBE Code : 557
Once
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 198
Oranges In No Man’s Land
Oranges in No Man's Land brings Elizabeth Laird's emotional and gripping adventure to her next generation of fans.
Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 242
Pax
Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by ‘his boy’, Peter. Now the country is at war and when his father enlists, Peter has no choice but to move in with his grandfather. Far worse than leaving home is the fact that he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 276
- MBE Code : 561
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Half boy. Half God. All Hero.Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 371
Pig Heart Boy
This thirteen-year-old just wants to live a normal life, like every other thirteen-year-old kid he knows. But most normal kids don't need a heart transplant…
So, a doctor has been discovered and he says that there is a chance for him to live a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 262
Rebound **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
‘Hoop kings SOARin kicks with wings.Game so sweetit’s like bee stings.’It's 1988. Charlie Bell is still mourning his father, and struggling to figure out how he feels for his best (girl) friend, CJ. When he gets into trouble one too many times,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 414
- MBE Code : 243
Rooftoppers
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Already being proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 364
Safiyyah’s War (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah’s life changes for ever.
Her best friend’s family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 582
Secrets of a Sun King
London, 1922.
A discovery from ancient Egypt...
A cursed package...
The untold story of a young pharaoh...
When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 390
Skellig
The beautiful and haunting novel that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today
When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.
Then, one ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 125
Smith
London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-pocket. One day on Ludgate Hill, he robbed an old gentleman, and one minute later watched him silently murdered by two men, who chased him for the document he had stolen but could ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 347