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Blood Runner by James Riordan
Category: Fiction
Samuel's parents and young sister, innocent bystanders during an uprising, are killed by South African police. Samuel is sent to live with his uncle, a tribal chief in the Bantu homeland, while his brother vows to join the African National Congress armed struggle and avenge his family's deaths. In the h ...Show more
Boxcar Molly by James Riordan
Category: Fiction | Series: Survivors S.
Set in 1930s Depression-hit America, this book features fourteen-year-old Molly who in an effort to find work, travels the railroads. As she rides the freight trains through the cities and the countryside, Molly sees the misery of the Depression at first hand.
Football Stories by James Riordan
Category: unmapped
The stories in this book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you hold your breath ? just like the game! A welcome reissue of this great collection on an ever-popular theme, with an eye-catching new cover.
Gift by James Riordan
Category: Fiction
Bee has cerebral palsy and her twin sister Fee has to care for her. When Fee discovers that Bee is a talented poet, she helps her with her writing, while at the same time becoming inspired to do something she ia really good at herself - running. Together the twins find a way of overcoming their day to d ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by James (EDT) Rosamund; Riordan Jonathan; Fowler Swift
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Classic Tales
King Arthur by James Riordan
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Classic Tales
Arthur is a special boy, brought up by the wizard Merlin and destined to be King. Britain is split by warring tribes and Arthur is the only hope for peace. With his magic sword, Excalibur, and his Knights of the Round Table, he is ready for heroism, but his evil half-sister, Morgana, is lurking.
Match of Death (out of print) by James Riordan
Category: Fiction
Vova is a fifteen year old boy living in Kiev. His first love is playing football, but when the Nazis invade the Ukraine in 1941, priorities change, and Vova and his sister join the partisans, to attempt to fight the enemy. Soon Vova is given the chance to play football again, but in a game with very hi ...Show more
My G-r-r-r-reat Uncle Tiger by James Riordan
Category: Children's
When Marmaduke, a stripy marmalade cat, discovers a picture of a stripy orange tiger, he recognises their similarities and decides they MUST be related. Marmalade manages to talk himself and his neighbourhood cat friends into visiting the local safari park. But will his great uncle be just as he imagine ...Show more
My Side of the Story: Escape from War by James Riordan
Category: Children's
My Side of the Story is completely unique approach to historical fiction. Read the story of one youngster's life in turbulent times, then flip the book and find out first hand how another child reacts to the same events - with very different feelings and results! "Frank": Frank is eleven and lives in wa ...Show more
Rebel Cargo by James Riordan
Category: Teen Fiction
Abena is a rebellious Ashanti girl sold into slavery on the notorious Transatlantic route from West Africa to Jamaica. Mungo is an English orphan who becomes a cabin boy, only to be kidnapped and sold as a white slave. Fate brings the two together and Mungo, risking life and limb, saves Abena from a ter ...Show more
Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor by James Riordan
Category: Children's
Sindbad's adventures are the most fantastic of the stories in "The Thousand and One Nights". During his twenty years as a merchant adventurer, Sindbad encounters a Rookh's egg, a huge valley of diamonds, streams of amber, a terrifying sea-monster, an ogre's feast, the Cave of the Dead, the Old Man of th ...Show more