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Annie's Choice (RA8 IA8-12) by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Children's | Series: 8 To 12 Ser.
A chillingly atmospheric story. Kamal loves his new country, his new city, his new school - it's a fresh start. The only problem is Alex, the school bully. He won't leave Kamal alone and it's starting to tarnish his shiny new life. But when Kamal makes a new friend who promises to help deal with Alex, t ...Show more
Catch Us If You Can by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Fiction
In this story, Rory, a young boy who has been caring for his grandfather, is devastated when he's told that grandad needs to go into a home, and that he will be fostered. The young boy and old man go on the run together - a real adventure and a journey of discovery, but with disaster lurking round the c ...Show more
Granny Nothing by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Fiction | Series: Granny Nothing S.
When enormous, rhinoceros-lookalike Granny Nothing arrives on the McAllisters' doorstep, it's a big shock for Stephanie and Ewen. They didn't even know she existed! Now Granny Nothing is sorting out the rottweilers from next door, the sadistic Nanny Sue, and Ewen's problems with a school bully.
Granny Nothing by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Young Readers | Series: Granny Nothing
It is a dark and stormy night......Nanny Sue is trying to get rid of Stephanie, Ewen and Baby Thomas so she can settle down to watch Star-Maker, her favourite TV programme. Nanny Sue's got ambitions to be a pop star, more fool her.Then comes a banging on the door. It's loud enough to wake the dead. "It' ...Show more
Granny Nothing and the Shrunken Head by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Fiction | Series: Granny Nothing S.
Stephanie and Ewen's parents are off on a second honeymoon - leaving Granny Nothing in charge. At school, Professor Gray is running an Antiques Roadshow event and everyone has to bring in something old. There just happens to be a shrunken head in Granny Nothing's suitcase.
Grass by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Children's
It would have been hard to have missed what was written on the wall. Painted in giant whitewashed letters: 'SHARKEY IS A GRASS'. I hadn't a clue who Sharkey was, but I knew one thing. 'Sharkey's a dead man,' I said. Leo knows the value of never grassing and that you never grass on your friends. Everyb ...Show more
Hide and Seek by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Children's Fiction
A Barrington Stoke title with a reading level of 8 but an interest level of 14+
Into the Shadows by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Fiction | Series: Nemesis
Ram has no memory of who he is, his background or where he has come from. He awakes in a darkened corridor of a block of flats with no idea of how he has got there. And then, the lift doors nearby open and inside is a dying man. Ram is now the murder suspect and on the run. But, there is something that ...Show more
Jenny's Choice by Catherine MacPhail
Category: Children's | Series: Acorns
Karam loves his new country, his new city, his new school - it's a fresh start. The only problem is Alex, the school bully. He won't leave Karam alone and it's starting to tarnish his shiny new life. But when Karam makes a new friend who promises to help deal with Alex, things start to change.