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Blindside by Aidan Chambers
Category: Young Adult
An emotionally challenging and beautifully written drama that confronts the messiness of life head-on.
Breaktime & Dance on My Grave (Dance Sequence #1) by Aidan Chambers
Category: Young Adult | Series: Dance Sequence
In "Breaktime", Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series of charges from Morgan against literature: that all fiction is Done. Finished. Dead; a sham and a pretence. He undertakes faithfully to r ...Show more
Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
Category: Young Adult
Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the object of his affections, Firella, demands proof, and poses him a series of questions regarding his attitude to the many sides of love. But Karl is dyslexic, and convinced that if Firella finds out, she will think he is stupid, and unworthy of her, an ...Show more
Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers
Category: Children's Educational
In this Cyrano de Bergerac-like novel, Karl, a teenage boy, enlists a famous writer to help him impress his girlfriend, Firella. She's asked him to write her a letter in which he reveals his true self. Convinced he's not good enough with words to please her, Karl tracks down Friella's favorite author an ...Show more
Now I Know & The Toll Bridge: Dance Sequence #3 by Aidan Chambers
Category: Young Adult
In "Now I Know" the body of a young man, crucified on a metal cross, is found dangling from a crane in a scrapyard and subsequently vanishes. Tom, an ambitious young police officer, thinks he's had a lucky break when he's put in charge of this bizarre murder investigation. Nik is doing research for a fi ...Show more
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Category: Fiction
Jacob Todd is abroad on his own for the first time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in Amsterdam. There, he meets Geertrui, a terminally ill old lady, who tells an extraordinary story of love and betrayal, which completely overturns Jacob's view of hi ...Show more
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Category: Fiction
What happens to Jacob Todd when he visits his grandfather's grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem is paralleled in time by the events of the day in World War Two when retreating troops were sheltered by the family of Geertrui Van Riet. Geertrui reveals secrets to Jacob which overturn ...Show more
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Originals
Aidan Chambers' Carnegie-medal winning novel is about love, discovery and betrayal. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Jacob, aged 17, is abroad on his own for the time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the commemoration of the Second World War Battle of Arnhem in Ho ...Show more
The Kissing Game: Short Stories by Aidan Chambers
Category: Fiction
United under the banner of flash fiction, this is a collection of stories, or little 'cells', complete in themselves but connected by the overarching themes of betrayal and revenge. All featuring teenagers and often with an unexpected twist, these frighteningly realistic stories will take you to the ver ...Show more
The Present Takers by Aidan Chambers
Category: Non-Fiction
Lucy's life is being made hell by Melanie Prosser and her bullying sidekicks - the present takers - who threaten her every day at school for presents and money. Too ashamed to tell her parents, and too scared to tell her teacher, Lucy finds an unexpected ally in Angus Burns. But when push comes to shove ...Show more
This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (Dance Sequence #5) by Aidan Chambers
Category: Fiction | Series: Dance Sequence
Subtitled "The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn", this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book "The Pillow B ...Show more
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