Year 8
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In the Sea there are Crocodiles
One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs or weapons, don't cheat, don't steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn't there. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is left alone at the border of Pakistan...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 395
Junk
It was a love story. Me, Gemma and junk. I thought it was going to last forever.Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down. She wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, finally, you have to come down. Melvin Burgess' most ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 339
Last of the Spirits
Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 411
Long Way Down **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS, Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight.
Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by the buzz of a bullet, didn't meet us.
After Will's brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 322
- MBE Code : 223
Machine Gunners
Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 355
Maggot Moon
Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner.Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, Maggot Moon is the astonishing new novel from award-winning author Sally Gardner. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 356
Mortal Engines
MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future.The first instalment introduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 309
Mud Sweat and Tears Junior Edition
This is the thrilling story of everyone's favourite real-life action man - from secret childhood missions to climb the town's school buildings and steeples, to starring in his own global TV series and becoming Chief Scout to the Scouting ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 342
Needle
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for young people in this riveting teen drama.Charlene is a demon knitter. It’s the only thing she enjoys and the only thing she believes she’s really ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 120
- MBE Code : 481
No Turning Back
No Turning Back by Carnegie-medal winning author Beverley Naidoo is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of Johannesburg in the 1990s. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 363
Noughts & Crosses
Sephy and Callum have been friends since early childhood, and that's as far as it can go. They live in a society full of prejudice, racism, distrust and mounting terrorist violence. Despite the world being against them, a romance builds between the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 216
Nowhere on Earth
It starts with a plane crash.
There are survivors: a teenage girl and her little brother. They are running from something. But what?
Then the men arrive. They are hunting the girl and boy. And-
And that's all we can tell you ...
A ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 419
October, October (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD.October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.Until ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 292
- MBE Code : 451
Oliver Twist
The story of orphaned Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Plunged into a dark criminal underworld of vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 129
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
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
Rook
Shortlisted for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie Medal.When Kenny and Nicky rescue a rook left for dead, Kenny is determined to keep it alive. Nicky doubts the scruffy bird will make it, but then Nicky has plenty else to worry about. This time, it's not his ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 104
- MBE Code : 402
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
Stone Cold
The title of Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-Winning thriller, created by the author Robert Swindells. This intense thriller plot has been combined with the perceptive and distressing portrait of what life is like on the streets, as a serial killer ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 126
The Battle Of Cable Street
Elsie witnesses the rise of antisemitic fascism in 1930s London in this gripping new story from award-winning author Tanya Landman. Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney, where Elsie and her brother Mikey are growing up in a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 511
The Black Flamingo
Michael waits in the stage wings, wearing a pink wig, pink fluffy coat and black heels.One more step will see him illuminated by spotlight.He has been on a journey of bravery to get here, and he is almost ready to show himself to the world in bold ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 439
The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow is a beautiful, captivating and a deeply moving read that reflects upon a refugee boy, named Subhi. All he knows of the world is that he is at least 19 fence diamonds high and at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 163
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 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