Robert Swindells ist für seine authentische und wirkungsvolle Erzählweise bekannt, die sich oft auf die Erfahrungen junger Menschen konzentriert, die sich schwierigen Umständen stellen müssen. Seine Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch einen direkten, unverblümten Stil aus, der Themen wie Widerstandsfähigkeit, soziale Gerechtigkeit und die Komplexität des Erwachsenwerdens erforscht. Swindells versteht es meisterhaft, nachvollziehbare Charaktere zu erschaffen, die angesichts von Widrigkeiten bemerkenswerten Mut zeigen und den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in ihre Kämpfe und Erfolge gewähren. Seine Werke finden tiefen Anklang und regen zum Nachdenken sowie zur emotionalen Verbindung an.
Fast-paced action and eerie mysteries define these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit series. Designed for reluctant young adult readers, the books feature vibrant characters that engage and captivate, making them an ideal choice for those seeking thrilling narratives.
Fast-paced action and eerie mysteries characterize these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit books, making them ideal for reluctant young adult readers. The vibrant characters and engaging storylines draw in readers, ensuring an exciting experience that captivates and holds their interest.
Fast-paced action and eerie mysteries define these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit books, making them ideal for reluctant young adult readers. The vibrant characters and engaging narratives draw in readers, ensuring an entertaining experience while exploring themes of adventure and intrigue.
Fast-paced action and eerie mysteries define these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit series. Featuring vibrant characters, these books are tailored for reluctant young adult readers, making them an engaging choice for those who may struggle with reading.
Fast-paced action and eerie mysteries characterize these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit books, making them ideal for reluctant young adult readers. The vibrant characters and engaging plots draw readers in, ensuring an exciting reading experience that captivates and entertains.
This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported.
Jenna sa già cosa vuol fare da grande: volare, proprio come suo nonno, che però non è mai riuscito a realizzare il suo sogno e ora è l'unico ad incoraggiarla. Ma quando una pistola, ricordo di guerra, scompare e finisce nelle mani di suo fratello Ned e del suo pericoloso amico Gavin, Jenna dovrà dimostrare di aver coraggio... non solo per volare.
InhaltsverzeichnisWie alles begann / Ungehorsame Kinder: Nut und Geb / Ein blutroter See. Wie Ra sein Volk bestrafte / Die Geschenke der Götter: Isis und Osiris / Die wunderbare Kiste: Der Tod des Osiris / Der böse Tyrann: Isis auf der Flucht / Sieg der Liebe. Die Wiedergeburt des Osiris / Seths Schlange. Die Rettung des Horusknaben / Wie Horus ein Auge verlor / Der Prinz und die Geister. Das magische Buch des Thot / Der zornige Gott. Warum die Fluten des Nils versiegten / Die Himmelsbarke. Eine gefürchtete Reise durch das Jenseits
Martha is 12 and very different from other kids—no TV, no computer, no cool clothes, and especially no friends. It's all because of her parents, who are strict members of a religious group called the Brethren. Their rules dominate Martha's life, and one rule is the most important of she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their terrible secret—Abomination—could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder, Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known?
Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming - She has a terrible nightmare that she is falling down the stairs - When she discovers that her grandma died falling downstairs, she begins to wonder whether there is a dark secret in her family_
Stephen und Ashraf fristen ein normales Teenagerdasein mit allen Höhen und Tiefen. Probleme mit einer Beziehung zwischen Briten und Pakistanis hat das Duo nicht - bis sie in die Fänge extremistischer Vereinigungen geraten. Plötzlich finden sich Stephen und Ashraf an verschiedenen Fronten wieder. Aus den einstigen Freunden werden erbitterte Gegner.
Auf faszinierende Weise sind mit dieser Rahmenhandlung einzelne Kapitel verwoben, in denen ein zunächst unbekannt bleibender junger Mann im Stil eines Tagebuchs seine Gedanken und Erlebnisse wiedergibt. Bald wird klar, daß der von Selbstzweifeln gequälte Erzähler dieser Passagen Branwell Bronte ist, der vermutliche Vorfahr Tims. Langsam nähern sich die Erzählebenen einander an, bis es schließlich zu einem Zusammentreffen der beiden jungen Männer kommt. Oder wer sonst ist der geheimisvolle Fremde, der Tim und seine Freunde, vor dem sicheren Tod im Moor rettet?
Quando suo padre - in crisi profonda da quando la moglie si è gravemente ammalata - diventa un seguace di una strana setta, i Fanciulli, la prima reazione della quindicenne Annabel è di incredulo sgomento. Ma lo sgomento si trasforma in ribellione, quando il signore Henshaw pretende di educare le due figlie secondo le idee della serra, arrivando a farle esonerare dalle materie che potrebbero entrare in conflitto con le convinzioni dei Fanciulli. In breve, l'atteggiamento del padre minaccia di scavare un baratro fra Annabel e i suoi amici, e la famiglia Henshaw vive in uno stato di terribile tensione. Ma i Fanciulli sono davvero quello che sembrano, o sotto la maschera dei fanatici religiosi si cela qualcosa di molto più equivoco e sinistro? E Annabel decide di reagire, costi quello che costi...
Ben ist mit seiner Freundin Midge einem Geheimnis auf der Spur: stammen die seltsamen Kreise in den Kornfeldern der Cransfield Farm von Ausserirdischen?
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. 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 bring it back into the present.It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY
A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, who is also homeless. However, Deb is hiding a secret: she is an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and is prepared to use herself as bait. The story explores themes of trust, survival, and the harsh realities faced by those living on the margins of society.
England 21. Jahrhundert: Dash liebt Zoe, und Zoe liebt Dash. Beide erzählen von ihrer Liebe, die eigentlich nicht existieren dürfte, denn der Kontakt zwischen unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftsklassen ist strengstens untersagt ...
Meet Mickey, Shaz, Jillo, Titch and Raider (the dog), better known as The Outfit. In their first adventure, they hear strange noises coming from creepy Sycamore Thicket. Can it be the ghosts who are supposed to haunt Weeping Wood? It's up to The Outfit to discover the truth.
Tim was a silly man who thought that it was yummy to swallow clouds of dirty smoke - until a chimney starts to grow on his head. To begin with Tim could hide it by wearing a hat - but it kept growing. It is only when he goes to hospital to have it removed that he learns the error of his ways.
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.
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 midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister.
Chaos and mass hysteria spread when a workman falls ill on the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump, an area which thirteen-year-old Lucy's second sight reveals as an old burial place for victims of the Black Death.
After nuclear war hits England, a teenage survivor and his little brother must fight for their lives in a harsh new world.
When Jimmy Booth becomes a collier's apprentice he discovers that life at the coal face is harsh, violent and dangerous. Even more dangerous is the mystery surrounding the pit and its 'closed road'
