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Robert Swindells
Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called…
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Battles and scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. This retelling brings to life the tumultuous struggle of the heroic young monarch as he fights to…
It is 2051 and Britain is a divided country, divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes…
Martha’s parents belong to a strict religious group which means no computers, no TV and no trendy clothes. Martha also has a secret called Abomination who must never be discovered…
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When Ben and Midge sneak out at night to investigate mysterious corn-circles which have begun to appear in the fields around Cansfield Farm, they discover that a dilapidated barn conceals…
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When a mysterious planet appears in the sky, the world’s scientists are baffled. But 11-year-old Orville has a nasty suspicion he knows its secret. If he is right, the world…
Being invisible can be exciting and fun. It can also be frightening…and dangerous. Especially when Rosie’s dad becomes a suspect in a local crime and the gang go invisible to…
Jenna is 13, and has suddenly realized what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad’s heroine, Amy Johnson. But Jenna’s wish for wings has…
This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter…
A twelve-year old boy and his friends make a grisly discovery whilst rooting about in a disused railway tunnel. They are plunged into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel unfolds…
The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and…
It’s the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Gordon’s dad didn’t serve in…
Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells. Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is still rationing…
But someone else is also hiding in the village - someone much more dangerous. Tense and chilling, this is another fantastically gripping tale from the award-winning author of Room 13…
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If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost… That’s what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir.
Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest…
Homeless in London, 14 year-old Link feels he has become an outcast. When he meets streetwise Ginger, he learns the tricks of survival. When Ginger goes missing, Link is anxious…
Includes the following works: Room 13 , and Inside the Worm .
Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her… Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. For when Fliss…
There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow’s Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of…
George is fascinated by World War Two - bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to…
Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan’s little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.
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Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha’s life. If…
Educational edition of Robert Swindells’ gripping, atmospheric thriller
New educational edition of Robert Swindells’ spooky classroom classic
‘Staying Up’ is the story of a serial killer. Age group 12-15.
Susan Brandenburg, Ph.D.
Robert Lee Swindell was born on May 15, 1916. His long and colorful life is chronicled on the pages of this book, including some exciting tales of those early days…
TRADE EDITION: Martha, the youngest daughter of fanatically religious parents, is all too aware that her family is unusual. Taunted and bullied at school, and lonely at home with only…
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The tension is palpable in this thriller for young readers.
With fast-paced action, creepy mysteries, and vibrant characters, these adaptations of Carnegie Medal-winning author Robert Swindells’ The Outfit books are perfect for reluctant young adult readers.
Prehistoric adventure. Tan’s tribe must steal meat like jackals to live. Scavenging’s dangerous, but they have no other way to get food. Until the tribe’s idiot hanger-on invents a new…
