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While working at her father's optician shop, Claudia Quinn is the only witness to a violent attack on a helpless victim, but she is too frightened to tell anyone, and allows herself to be distracted by a new boyfriend who has suddenly come into her life.
Teased and abused for being grossly overweight, Jimmy, a fourteen-year-old Scottish boy who dreams mysterious dreams and secretly aspires to become a chef, decides to turn his self-loathing life around by learning how to swim.
Kitty and her brother John live in Glasgow during a time of war - Concerned for their safety, their father arranges for them to stay with a family in a farming area until the danger is over, much to their dismay.
A group of students go on a school outing they'll never forget. As the group descends the staircase to begin the Hidden City tour they are, at first, disappointed by the bland warren of bare brick chambers. But the atmosphere soon becomes more sinister as each chamber is explored and the tour guide describes its history of horror.
YA. Danny-Boy shaves his head for Grampa Dan's funeral and the barber tells him he looks like a POW. Danny-Boy doesn't care - he's on a downward spiral. Drinking, cutting school, obsessed with the lyrics of Skarrs. Lyrics based on the real-life nightmare that broke Grampa Dan.
"DarkCreepyHaunted?Is there something in Alans loft?Or could it be someone?Good quality fiction for the seriously struggling reader aged from 12-16. The Bookseller Award-winning authors gripping and relevant stories Top quality, age-appropriate illustrations Stylish packagingInterest age 12 Reading age 7
Me: John Blue. Sixteen. Six pack. Likes - music and girls in that order. Dislikes - The Two Cheeses, Danish Blue and Dairy Lee. Them: The Two Cheeses, Dane and Lee. Spotty. Greasy. Geeks. Likes - Star Wars and making my life a misery, in that order. Dislikes - washing. Clean underpants. Having a life. What a couple of L-L-L-Losers....First PageThis story started on a Saturday night when the Two Cheeses hid the telly remote control from me. Again. The Two Cheeses? Maybe Youre thinking, who
Rory's dad is obsessed by Bob Dylan - nothing else matters, not a job, not money, not even Rory. When his two best mates hook up with his dad to release a music download, it goes totally viral. Rory's life is turned upside down. Suddenly, he is cool at school, in demand with girls and worth his father's notice. But there is a price to be paid.
Nikki encounters real evil when she helps the other girls in her school to pick on an even more unpopular girl, "Loopy Loner" Lizzie Brownie, by tying her up and throwing her in a pond as people used to do to witches in Scotland.
When Reece - strange, blue-haired, fire-obsessed Reece - moves in next door, Keith is worried. Reece is clearly trouble but the problem is, Keith feels sorry for him. Keith knows he should ignore Reece, but he's like smoke. He pervades everything, every aspect of Keith's life.