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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Today) by Robert Swindells
Category: Children's | Series: Shakespeare Today
Robert Swindells's retelling of 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 ...Show more
A Skull in Shadows Lane by Robert Swindells
Category: Children's
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 wind ...Show more
A Wish for Wings by Robert Swindells
Category: Fiction
Jenna is 13, 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.
Abomination by Robert Swindells; Ben Hughes (Designed by)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Originals Ser.
"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 - c ...Show more
Blackout by Robert Swindells
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This is 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 ...Show more
Blitzed by Robert Swindells
Category: Fiction
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 ch ...Show more
Brother in the Land by Swindells Robert
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Originals Ser.
Reissued with a powerful new cover for the Originals series of iconic teen fictionAn '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 ...Show more
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
When a nuclear bomb wrecks his hometown and rips his family apart, 15-year-old Danny has to learn the art of survival and fast. Under constant threat from radiation sickness, starvation, and the men who have seized power, Danny struggles to protect himself and his brother. Then he joins the resistance a ...Show more
Burnout (RA 8+ IA 13+) by Robert Swindells
Category: Children's
Tense and chilling thriller. Josh can't seem to do anything right, until he is suddenly invited to join the area's most infamous gang. They light fires and cause some serious damage - and Josh is hooked from the first flame. But when things start getting out of control, who will get burned? A thought- ...Show more
Dan's War (RA 8+ IA 13+) by Robert Swindells
Category: Children's
Dan Langley may be too young to fight in the war - but he's not too young to take down the enemy! Second World War thriller from a Carnegie Medal- winning author. It's WWII and Dan Langley is stuck working in General Winton's garden instead of fighting in the trenches. When Dan begins to notice some ...Show more
Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Doodlebug Alley by Robert E. Swindells
Category: Young Adult
A thrilling series for younger readers which will introduce them to the second world war as seen and experienced by three ordinary children. AUTHOR: Robert Swindells is a popular Carnegie Medal-winning author, who has also twice won the prestigious Children's Book Award for his page-turning, powerful no ...Show more