Year 8
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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 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 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
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins is the son of the innkeepers of the Admiral Benbow near Devon and becomes fascinated by a mysterious lodger, the old seaman Billy Bones. It soon becomes apparent to Jim that Billy Bones is in hiding from a man with one wooden leg and he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 140
We Are All Made Of Molecules
Meet Stewart. He’s geeky, gifted and sees things a bit differently to most people. His mum has died and he misses her all the more now he and Dad have moved in with Ashley and her mum.
Meet Ashley. She’s popular, cool and sees ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 562
Welcome To Nowhere
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 614
Wrath
Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different - but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz. Cassie can hear a noise that most people don't notice or recognise, and she believes it's a sound that shows the Earth is in ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 132
- MBE Code : 484
Zara Hossain Is Here
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Texas since her family moved there for her father’s work. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 244
- MBE Code : 478