Year 8
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I’m The King Of The Castle
‘I didn’t want you to come here.’ So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 131
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
Keedie
As Keedie and her twin Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and fiercely protective of, their quiet younger sister Addie – who on the surface is the opposite of loud and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 192
- MBE Code : 615
King Of Shadows
I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries . . .Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 224
Lark (2020 Carnegie Winner)
Carnegie winner 2020
The shattering climax to the sequence that started with Brock. Nicky and Kenny have saved all sorts of animals. But will they be able to save themselves? Things are tense at home for the brothers. Their mum’s coming to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 110
- MBE Code : 424
Look Both Ways (Carnegie Medal Winner 2021)
When the bell rings and school is finished for the day, the walkers are finally set free. For ten blocks they have no-one telling them what to do; they can talk about bogies, skateboard, plan dramatic escapes, make jokes, face bullies, and hear about...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 641
Looking For JJ
An emotionally searing novel that will grip every reader from start to finish. The storyline of Looking For JJ explores the circumstances and motives behind the murder of a child, which was done by her own friend.
Now six years on, JJ has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 300
- MBE Code : 176
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 ...
- 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
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, is based around the time of five years ago, when Jamie’s sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. And as an act of grief, the family were torn apart.
His mum ran away,
His dad turns to drink and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 234
- MBE Code : 201
My Swordhand Is Singing
Written by the talented Marcus Sedgwick and set in the 17th century, My Swordhand Is Singing is based around the inspiration of the original vampire folk of Eastern Europe.
Featuring Tomas and his son Peter, they arrive in Chust, but there are ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 231
Noughts And 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 Winner 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
Oxford Playscripts : Noughts And Crosses
Dominic Cooke's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the bestselling novel by Malorie Blackman. First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2007.
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 136
- MBE Code : 333
Pig Heart Boy
This thirteen-year-old just wants to live a normal life, like every other thirteen-year-old kid he knows. But most normal kids don't need a heart transplant…
So, a doctor has been discovered and he says that there is a chance for him to live a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 262
Pike
A fishing expedition nosedives into near tragedy in this second addition to the Truth of Things series.
Nicky and Kenny return in Pike as a fishing expedition nosedives into near tragedy. The Bacon Pond is famous for its monster-sized fish and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 136
- MBE Code : 693
Rat (Super-Readable Rollercoasters)
When his mum is sent back to prison, Al knows exactly who's to blame. Mr Brayker, who lives downstairs, has been making trouble for Al's mum ever since they moved in, and Al's determined to get his revenge. Ignoring advice from his gran and sister, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 152
- MBE Code : 684
Refugee Boy
Alem is on holiday with his father for a few days in London. He has never been out of Ethiopia before and is very excited. They have a great few days togther until one morning when Alem wakes up in the bed and breakfast they are staying at to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 183
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
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 57 Bus
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both their lives forever.
Two teenagers growing up in Oakland, California. One, Sasha, was born male but identifies as agender, wears skirts and attends a private ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 567
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 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