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A Little Lower Than Angels
Gabriel takes refuge from his master's cruelty with a band of travelling mystery
players. His name and appearance suggest to the play-master a hoax miracle
scam, which could make him rich. But miracles have to be handled with care,
and in a time of plague, miracle-workers face dangers, which are just not
worth the risk...
Oxford University Press
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...A
compelling narrative appealing young characters,
superbly vivid detail and and
exciting plot'
Grow
Point
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A Pack of Lies
When MCC Berkshire moves into the antiques shop, he turns life upside down
for Ailsa and her mother. He sleeps on the old bed in the shop, and button-holes
every potential customer with a special story, told just for them. But just
who is MCC? And why does he tell such awful lies? Ailsa has never met anyone
like this, but MCC cannot afford to become too involved, because MCC has
a story all of his own.
Oxford University Press
Scholastic Press (US)
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..."One
of the warmest, funniest,most touching,and
above all surprising books you may ever read"
Touchdown, New
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Gold Dust
Inez and her brother Maro are amazed to see a big hole being dug outside their
father's shop. Their amazement grows as other holes appear in the main street.
Then the rumours begin to spread: there is gold under the little town of
Sierra Vazia. But as gold-hunters descend on the town to try their luck,
life in the little town becomes increasingly unbearable. Inez and Maro, with
the help of their samba-singing school- teacher, set out to save their home
from the terrible symptoms of gold-fever.
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..."Spell-binding
from start to finish...
hauntingly drawn"
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Plundering
Paradise
Nathan must leave school. Tamo White is leaving of his own accord. He suggests
that Nathan go with him - back to Madagascar where Tamo's father ruled as a pirate
king. But what will the island hold for a British boy from a staunchly Christian
background, and is it any place to take his sister, the mousy Maud?
Oxford University Press
Published as "The Pirate's Son"
in U.S Scholastic Press
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..."Has
the gift of making remote times
and places unfold before the readers
very eyes... What a novelist"
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Forever X
When the Shepherds' car breaks down on their way to their summer holiday, the
only place they can find to stay is Forever X, the hotel where every day
is Christmas Day. Mr and Mrs Shepherd would like to give the festivities
a miss: four- year-old Mel wants to enter into them heart and soul. Joy is
not sure how she should react, but when she makes friends with Holly, the
resident elf, she can't help being drawn into the strange Partridge household.
Then the mysterious Mr Angel arrives, who has the power to ruin everything
and seems bent on using it. Can old F.C. and the children foil him keep the
police at bay?
Oxford University Press |
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..."a
superbly written novel, both funny and illuminating"
School Librarian |
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Casting
the Gods Adrift
When Tutmose and his family arrive in Pharaoh Akhenaten’s
new city, they are delighted to be taken under the ruler’s wing.
But this pharaoh’s strange ideas about religion will change life
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stories, told from the perspective of a child whose situation
elicits
genuine interest and concern, are full of excitement and
surprise.’
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The Stones Are Hatching
Phelim knows he is nothing out of the ordinary. His sister is always telling
him so. Why, then , is he suddenly beset by strangers calling him by the
wrong name and telling him he must attempt the impossible - that everything
depends on him? The countryside is overrun with monsters so old that the
world has forgotten their names. The washerwoman at the river predicts that
he will soon be dead. But the girl with no shadow, the leaping madman and
the 'Obby 'Oss will not let him give up. Phelim Green must keep his rendezvous
with the Stoor Worm whose warmth, in waking, is causing the very stones under
her to hatch.
Oxford University Press
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..."McCaughrean
is a superb storyteller,
and her tale is irresistible".
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The Kite Rider
Haoyou sees his father killed 'testing the wind' for a ship about to set sail
- hauled aloft on a hatch- cover, just as if he were a kite. Horrific a place
as the sky now seems, Haoyou is obsessed by its vastness, its dangers, its
population of spirits. Somehow, it has become his fate to fly on the wind
like his father, to man a kite. And when the circus of the Great Miao comes
to town, it seems it is Haoyou's fate to travel with them into the very presence
of Khublai Khan, Mogul conqueror, the unimagineable enemy of every Chinese
patriot
Oxford University Press
Harper Collins (US)
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"....a
wonderful saga, detail is
phenomenal but unobtrusive, the
narrative warm, sometimes humorous,
and consistently compelling" Guardian Education |
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