Year 9
Our Year 9 bestselling tutor time reads can be found here with Carnegie YOTO shortlisted titles such as Ruta Sepetys ‘I Must Betray You’ and Ibi Zoboi’s ‘Punching The Air’ leading the way. We can supply any book in print, just give us a call on 01427 678367 or drop us an email to books@mbebooks.com.
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A Skinful Of Shadows **Shortlisted For The Carnegie Medal**
Frances Hardinge weaves a dark, otherworldly tale in A Skinful of Shadows, her first book since the Costa Award-winning The Lie Tree.
When a creature dies, its spirit can go looking for somewhere to hide.
Some people have space inside them, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 416
- MBE Code : 196
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 432
- MBE Code : 345
All That’s Left In The World
When the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured stranger crosses his path.
Life is dangerous now and, armed with a gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger. But there's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 354
- MBE Code : 542
All The Invisible Things
With Pez, the days felt endless – cycling, climbing trees, sucking sour sweets till our tongues burned. I’d give anything to be that girl again.
For four years Vetty Lake has been keeping her heart in hiding. Since her mum died and her family ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 358
- MBE Code : 461
Becoming Dinah
Dinah’s whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting….
Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 244
- MBE Code : 462
Birthday
Meet Eric and Morgan. Born on the same day, at the same time, in the same place.They’ve always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart. Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one knows he’s ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 312
- MBE Code : 463
Blood Brothers (Student Edition)
The Bloomsbury Student Editions are specifically annotated to assist learning. All of our class set titles come with free fitted jackets and we deliver next day. Your bulk orders are processed quickly with a hassle free invoice system built in to our...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 106
Blue Book Of Nebo (Yoto Carnegie Winner 2023)
Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018: when the electricity went off for good, and the normal 21st-century world he knew disappeared. Now 14, he and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 574
Bog Child
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 361
Boy Kills Man
Nothing is more unsettling in this world than a kid with a gun...
On the streets of Medellin, Colombia, actions speak louder than words, and the rule of the bandidos is the only law worth listening to.
Like most kids of their age, Shorty and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 391
Boys Don’t Cry
You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby.You're happy to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 518
Brighton Rock
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 368
Cane Warriors (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
Nobody free till everybody free.Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 184
- MBE Code : 448
Crossing The Line (Shortlisted For The Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
'Do you feel safe?'
A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines.
Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 580
Cuts Both Ways
London is everything to Cynthia, so when her parents move her to a place where there is only one bus an hour and the faint smell of horse manure continuously permeates the air, it's a culture shock, to say the least. As is transitioning to a private ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 667
Echo Boy
Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 416
- MBE Code : 352
Elsewhere
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning .
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 655
Face
Face, is the startling debut novel created by the author Benjamin Zephaniah. Who tackles the moving and compelling story of the character, Martin. A young man whose life is completely ruined through the changing of his face, due to himself being ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 184
Five Hundred Miles
For brothers Cole and Ruben it's another rainy morning in the badlands of East London, selling dodgy paperwork for even dodgier motors. But arriving in a grimy pub on their latest errand, the brothers stumble across a trio of gangsters, a beautiful ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 499
Girl. Boy. Sea.
A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco. After days alone at sea in a tiny rowing boat Bill rescues a girl clinging for her life to a barrel. Aya, from the nomadic Berber tribe, was escaping ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 656
Guard Your Heart (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
Boy meets girl on the Northern Irish border.Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland peace deal.Aidan is Catholic, Irish, and Republican. With his ex-political prisoner father gone and his ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 296
- MBE Code : 450
Heartbreak Boys
At the start of summer, Jack and Nate find themselves dumped as their respective exes, Dylan and Tariq, start up a new relationship together. Not only that, their exes start posting pics on social media, showing the whole world how fabulous their ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 405
- MBE Code : 464
Heroes
Heroes, a widely known book that is used within many schools across the country. Where we provide you with every text inside of a protective plastic wallet, for the assurance of longer life ware. All available to you in as little as the next day, at ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 114
Homer’s Odyssey
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 686
I Am Legend
An acclaimed SF novel about vampires. The last man on earth is not alone ...
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 365