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| Author | Title | ISBN | Blurb (description from the back of the book) | Price | Picture (click on the thumbnail for a bigger picture) | Do you want to buy it? Click on "add to cart" and it'll take you to the PayPal screen. |
| Beverley Naidoo | The Other Side of Truth | 9780141304762 | A shot. Two shots at the gate in the early morning and a car screeches away down an avenue of palm trees. A tragedy - and a terrible loss for Sade and her younger brother, Femi, children of an outspoken journalist. Now terror is all around them and they must flee their country. At once. And alone. | £5.99 | ||
| Beverley Naidoo | Out of Bounds | 9780141309699 | For almost fifty years apartheid forced the young people of South Afrcia to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians and 'Coloureds'. This unique and dramatic collection of stories, one for each decade, is about young people's choices in a beautiful country made ugly by injustice. But shining throughout the conflict and drama are acts of bravery that give hope for a new rainbow country. | £5.99 | ||
| Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | 9781407105154 | Sam wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. He also needs to know answers to the questions that nobody will answer. | £4.99 | ||
| Sally Nicholls | Ways to Live Forever | 9781407104997 | See above description. this copy is a larger format with a different cover | Special Price £6.99 (was £7.99) | ||
| Sally Nicholls | Season of Secrets | 9781407105130 | On a wild and stormy night, Molly runs away from her grandparents' house. Her dad has sent her to live there until he Sorts Things Out at home. In the howling darkness Molly sees a desperate figure running for his life from a terrifying midnight hunt. Hw has come to help her. But why? And who is he? Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heart-broken child and an age-old legend into a haunting story of love, healing and strange magic. | £6.99 | ||
| William Nicholson | Seeker | 9781405234023 | In the fortress monastery on the island of Anacrea live the legendary fighter monks known as the Noble Warriors, or Nomana. Undefeated in combat, no one knows or understands the sourve of their mysterious power. Seeker, Morning Star and the Wildman all long to become apprentice warriors. First, though, they must prove themselves worthy. But these are dangerous times...When Seeker discovers a plot to destroy the Nomana the three seize the chance to show their worth. | £6.99 | ||
| William Nicholson | Firesong (The Wind on Fire book 3) | 9780749749163 (Hardback) | It is the time of cruelty. The Manth people have left the ruined Mastery to seek their homeland, in the face of starvation, blizzards and the evil of Morah. Only Ira Hath can lead them there. She grows weak... Kestral dreads reaching the homeland. She is afraid of what it will mean to her mother - and of something else. Why does she feel so alone? Bowman eagerly awaits the summons from Sirene. He prepares to make the final sacrifice for his people, his family. But first he must be trained by the great Albard. And all the while, the wind is rising... | special price £6.99 (was £10.99) | ||
| Sara Nickerson | How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found | 9781405203753 | Boyd watches a girl and her family put a For Sale sign outside the creepy abandoned mansion. He sighs with relief as they drive away... Margaret stumbles on clues to the secret of the house and its strange owner. She doesn't know what they mean, but she soon will... Because it's only a few days till the full moon. | £4.99 | ||
| Garth Nix | Sabriel | 9780007137312 | Who will guard the living when the dead arise? Sabriel is the daughter of the Mage Abhorsen. Ever since she was a tiny child, she has lived outside the wall of the Old Kingdom - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father is missing and Sabriel is called upon to cross back into that world to find him. | £6.99 | ||
| Garth Nix | Lirael | 9780007137336 | When the future is hidden, who holds the key to destiny? Lirael has never felt like a true daughter to the Clayr. She doesn't even have the Sight - the ability to see into the present and possible futures - that is the very birthright of the Clayr. Nonetheless, it is Lirael in whose hands the fate of the Old Kingdom lies, while Abhosren Sabriel is engaged in conflict elsewhere. | £7.99 | ||
| Christine Nostlinger | Fly Away Home | 9781842709207 | when her family's apartment in Vienna is bombed, Christel Goth and family lose everything. They are offered the use of a summer villa in the suburbs and walk there in just the clothes they stand up in. The war is ending, and there is a precarious existence eking out fodo stores, and anticipating horrors from the oncoming Russian army. But when they come, the worst the soldiers do is get drunk and fire their guins. It's a tense time, and Christel's avtive curiosity leads her into all sorts of dangerous places. | £5.99 |
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