Robert Swindells Book order (chronological)

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.

Fast-paced action and intriguing mysteries characterize these adaptations of Robert Swindells' Carnegie Medal-winning The Outfit books. Featuring vibrant characters, they are tailored to engage reluctant young adult readers, making them an ideal choice for those seeking thrilling narratives.

The worm was close now. 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. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...

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. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance.

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

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

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

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_

Steve and Ashraf are 16-year-old classmates and each fancies the other's sister. A bond forms between them but is destroyed when Steve gets involved in an extreme right-wing organisation and Ashraf is drawn into an extremist Muslim group. They become enemies and are injured when their rival groups clash. Over weeks in hospital in adjoining beds, they're visited by their sisters. The girls' friendship and the boys' fondness for the other's sister, begins to break down the barrier of intolerance. The boys become friends again.

One of a series offering classic and contemporary writing for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes. Suitable for study at GCSE level, this novel contains scenes which may be disturbing for younger readers.

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?

A sensational time machine has great potential - both for good and for terrible harm...

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.Homeless, frightened and alone, Link finds himself down-and-out in London. He only survives because he's befriended by streetwise Ginger. When Ginger disappears, Link is in despair. Other kids are vanishing now - and the killer is stalking his next victim. Will it be Link?

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Lucy è una tredicenne come tante, che vive un periodo, indubbiamente difficile, segnato da molti litigi dei genitori. La crisi esplode quando la mamma di Lucy (un vera "ista": femminista, pacifista, ambientalista) fonda un gruppo che si oppone al seppellimento di scorie nucleari nei pressi del villaggio, e il padre, conformista ad oltranza, la chiude fuori di casa. Prima perplessa ed incerta, Lucy decider infine da che parte schierarsi, e verrà anche a conoscenza di un antico segreto che allunga la sua ombra sui problemi di oggi. Una vicenda attualissima che si tinge di mistero

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'