Year 8
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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 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 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
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 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 Hunger Games
Revolving around the sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her own district. In the Annual Hunger Games. Which concludes with a fight to the death on live television. But this isn’t ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 436
- MBE Code : 123
The Island at the End of Everything
Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants - including her mother - have leprosy. Ami loves her home - with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 393
The Kite Runner
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 349
The Last Wild
From the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeThis is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.2. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 376
The Lie Tree
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015.
The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.
Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 397
The Light In Everything (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, comes a life-affirming story about blended families and learning to find room in your heart for new life and new love.
Tom is still quiet and timid, even though his dad ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 318
- MBE Code : 522
The Odyssey
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 face many dangers - Polyphemus the greedy one-eyed ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 404
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 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
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