Secondary Class Sets
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The Catcher in the Rye
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 372
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
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 Crucible
Arthur Miller has created a classic storyline of a building hysteria, which extracts a frightening parallel between the Salem Witch-Hunt of 1692 and the American anti-communist purges, which were led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s.
Described to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 175
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 Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – The Play, Critical Scripts
This schools' edition of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel adapted for the stage of the National Theatre by Simon Stephens is perfect for Key Stages 3 and 4. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 247
The Day I Was Erased
The third read-in-one-sitting mystery from the author of unforgettable bestseller The Goldfish Boy.
Maxwell is always in trouble. He's a total menace to his teachers and big sister, but has a soft side, too: he rescued his dog, Monster, from being...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 417
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 Giver
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.
It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 202
The Goldfish Boy
A story about finding friendship when you're lonely - and hope when all you feel is fear. Twelve-year-old Matthew is trapped in his bedroom by crippling OCD, spending most of his time staring out of his window as the inhabitants of Chestnut Close go ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 158
The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There, living among the dead, Bod discovers that he possesses remarkable magical powers: he ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 724
The Great Gatsby
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 177
- MBE Code : 151
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 295
The History Boys
The History Boys is based around an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form students who are in pursuit of only three topics in mind, sex, sport and a place at either Oxford or Cambridge University.
And, also following their several teachers, one...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 166
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 613
The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure.
A timeless classic.
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 211
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
The Hound Of The Baskervilles concludes the storyline of Sir Charles Baskerville who is found dead along the wild Devon Moor with only the footprints of a giant dog present that's nearby, where ultimately everyone blames the phantom hound that has ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 187
The House with Chicken Legs
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019.Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019.Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019.Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019.Marinka ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 338
- MBE Code : 221
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 Knife Of Never Letting Go
Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 459
The Lion Above The Door
Leo and his best friend Sangeeta are the odd ones out in their school. But as Leo’s dad is always telling him, it’s because they’re special. Only thing is, if they’re so special, how come they never see anyone who looks like them in their ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 316
- MBE Code : 564