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Stone Cold
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
129 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-winning thriller by Robert Swindells. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.A tense thriller plot is combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Link, aged 17, is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, another homeless youngster. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and she's prepared to use herself as bait ...The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
Ice Palace
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
107 kr
Skickas
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.
Daz 4 Zoe
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
120 kr
Skickas
It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it's Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...
Abomination
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
114 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction. 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. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful 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?The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths
Abomination
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
89 kr
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A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction. 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. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful 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?The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths
Daz 4 Zoe
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2002, 12-15 år
89 kr
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It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it''s Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...
Ice Palace
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 1992
89 kr
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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.
Stone Cold
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2005, 12-15 år
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
99 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-winning thriller by Robert Swindells. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.A tense thriller plot is combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Link, aged 17, is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, another homeless youngster. But what Deb doesn''t tell him is that she''s an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and she''s prepared to use herself as bait ...The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man''s Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O''Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
Brother in the Land
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 1994
100 kr
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An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. 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 Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?
Brother in the Land
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
120 kr
Skickas
An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. 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 Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?
Stone Cold
AvRobert Swindells
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
292 kr
Skickas
Carnegie Medal Winner.
World-Eater
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
131 kr
Skickas
'There's something in the sky... something terrible!'On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid. Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon to hatch her first eggs, is the first to suspect the true nature of the planet. But will anyone listen to his theory? And, if they do, can they avert disaster? For if Orville is right, the world is doomed . . .
Wish For Wings
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
132 kr
Skickas
'I'LL FLY,' JENNA WHISPERED TO HERSELF. 'I'LL FLY, WHATEVER NED SAYS. WHATEVER ANYBODY SAYS...'Jenna is thirteen - 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 to be put on hold when something awful happens: Grandad's souvenir of his wartime service - a loaded gun - goes missing. And Jenna is almost certain that her brother Ned has taken it...
Ruby Tanya
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
169 kr
Skickas
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 of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so her parents have to return without her. She hides in a nearby derelict building and is helped by Ruby Tanya.
Room 13
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
120 kr
Skickas
Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing . . . 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 . . . A gripping page-turner from a master of spooky suspense, award-winning Robert Swindells. Don't read this under the covers at midnight!
Inside The Worm
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
132 kr
Skickas
The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. 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. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...
Blitzed
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
120 kr
Skickas
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 a World War Two museum leads to a timeslip - and George is in London at the time of the Blitz! He joins up with a group of other homeless children, struggling to survive. And then they suspect someone they know of being a German spy...
Nightmare Stairs
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
155 kr
Skickas
I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake. Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare - of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Then Kirsty discovers that her grandma died falling downstairs and she begins to wonder: is the dream hinting at a dark secret in her family? She has to know the truth. But tracking a murderer is a dangerous game, and as she delves into the past, Kirsty uncovers a secret more terrible than anything she can imagine.A terrifying read from one of today's master storytellers. WINNER OF THE SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR BEST SHORTER NOVEL'Cleverly put together - funny as well as gripping' The Sunday Times
Room 13 And Inside The Worm
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
120 kr
Skickas
ROOM 13Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing.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 twelve. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister.INSIDE THE WORMThe worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. 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. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance.
Timesnatch
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
157 kr
Skickas
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
Shrapnel
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
144 kr
Skickas
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. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family . . . Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War One, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War Two - he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down, but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some 'packages'. But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible consequences?
Blackout
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
169 kr
Skickas
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 and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too . . .
Skull in Shadows Lane
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
144 kr
Skickas
The war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for - a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal face appears at a dark window . . .Believing there's a skeleton haunting Shadows Lane, the children are shocked to learn the truth about 'Boney' - he's an escaped prisoner of war. 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 and Stone Cold.
Shade of Hettie Daynes
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
143 kr
Skickas
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. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.If so, what does she want? And why is she appearing now?Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.
In the Nick of Time
AvRobert Swindells
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
144 kr
Skickas
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 floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key - is Jack more than he seems?
Shade of Hettie Daynes
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
122 kr
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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. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.If so, what does she want? And why is she appearing now?Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.
Shrapnel
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2009
122 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
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. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family . . . Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War One, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War Two - he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down, but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some 'packages'. But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible consequences?
Invisible!
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
88 kr
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Now you see them, now you don't...What would you do if you could become invisible? Creep around, unseen? Listen in to other people's conversations? Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte do all these things, and much more, when a new girl at school - Rosie - shows them her secret: how to make yourself invisible. It's exciting, and it's 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 find the real crooks...
Henry V
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
85 kr
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Robert Swindell''s Henry V isa gripping retelling of Shakespeare''s famous historical play. Battlesand scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. Thisretelling brings to life the tumultuous struggle of the heroic youngmonarch as he fights to protect his kingdom and his life.The Shakespeare Today series captures the magic of Shakespeare''s text and sets it in an accessible and contemporary style.
Midsummer Night's Dream
AvRobert Swindells
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
85 kr
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Robert Swindells''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream is set in a very modern-day Yorkshire. Theseus, the neighbourhood tycoon is getting married. Bottom and his mates are roped into putting on a play for the wedding because, well, there''s nothing much to do when you''re on the dole. But, before the wedding, there are young lovers with problems to resolve ... and a drop of magic and mischief in the mix!The Shakespeare Today series captures the magic of Shakespeare''s text and sets it in an accessible and contemporary style.

Robert Swindells – författare

Stone Cold

Ice Palace

Daz 4 Zoe

Abomination

Abomination

Daz 4 Zoe

Ice Palace

Stone Cold

Brother in the Land

Brother in the Land

Stone Cold

World-Eater

Wish For Wings

Ruby Tanya

Room 13

Inside The Worm

Blitzed

Nightmare Stairs

Room 13 And Inside The Worm

Timesnatch

Shrapnel

Blackout

Skull in Shadows Lane

Shade of Hettie Daynes

In the Nick of Time

Shade of Hettie Daynes

Shrapnel

Invisible!

Henry V

Midsummer Night's Dream