This is the account of their five years spent in exile, and of how the Rudomins kept their courage high,even though they went barefoot and hungry.

In 1941, when Esther was 10, she and her family were arrested by the Russians, taken from a comfortable life and transported to Siberia. This is a vivid and emotive description of the Jewish Rudomin family's exile to Siberia during World War II.

The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (Autobiography) But what is virtual and what is reality? How far will Nick go to achieve his goal? And what does Erebos really want?' As Nick loses friends and all sense of right and wrong in the real world, he gains power and advances further towards his online goal - to become one of the Inner Circle of Erebos. The game is highly addictive but asks its players to carry out actions in the real world in order to keep playing online, actions which become more and more terrifyingly manipulative. ' Nick is given a sinister but brilliant computer game called Erebos. Only Colin can piece together the puzzle that links chocolate cake, a dodgy gangster, a cheerleader and a very unlikely suspect. But when a gun goes off in the school cafeteria one lunchtime, Colin knows he can work out who did it. A lot of the world is a mystery to Colin - he can't read his classmates' expressions without looking at a chart, the colour blue is really off-putting and he has no idea why his parents like to hug him. 'Fans of John Green and Sarah Dessen will like this book very much' Publishers Weekly Colin Fischer is 14 and he has Asperberger's. A must-read for anyone who loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Published 14 February 2013.Ī brilliant detective story for readers of 10+, from the screenwriters of X Men First Class and Thor. Her destiny, and her heart, depends on it. Solange must escape the folds of memory and time and fight for the fate of the royal crown - and win. The treaty between the Drakes and the Helios-Ra is under threat.

Possessed by a vengeful twelfth-century witch, Solange commits heinous crimes against the vampire tribes that she pledged to empower. Solange Drake will not claim her birthright she will not be queen as vampire tradition dictates. The thrilling conclusion to the Drake Chronicles is a gripping story of love and loyalty. It's a great way to bring the classics to life and to introduce them to today's readers. She is unaware of the ambulance ride, the tests, the surgery as she is existing in parallel words. She wakes in the middle of a forest without any familiar city sights, and finds herself in the midst of adventures peopled by characters from fiction, from the stories her grandfather read to her, including Long John Silver (Treasure Island) and Chingachook (Last of the Mohicans]. She meets Billy and starts to feel that here is someone with whom she can relax - but can he be trusted? Are her visions of girls being attacked warnings? Set in Ireland during the 1700s the historical background and depiction of society at the time is vivid and interesting and the story will grip the reader.Ĭat Manno never saw the truck coming and when it hits her, she doesn’t feel the pain for long. Jumping between viewpoints of the love-struck Tim and Duncan, a current senior about to uncover the truth of Tim and Vanessa, The Tragedy Paper is a compelling tale of forbidden love and the lengths people will go to keep their secrets.'Įver since Taney was four she has been aware of her uncanny gift, a gift inherited from her mother - she can see things before they happen. Her strange gift isolates her from other children and she struggles to find the answer to the questions that intrigue her. Tim and Vanessa begin a clandestine romance, but looming over them is the Tragedy Paper, Irving’s version of a senior year thesis, assigned by the school’s least forgiving teacher. To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone ever finds out. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential “It” girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving’s most popular boy. 'This follows the story of Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants-he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed.

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