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1 George Orwell Penguin Books Ltd Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. ISBN13: (03/07/2008) To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Arrow Books Ltd 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. ISBN13: (24/06/2010)

2 Animal Farm George Orwell Penguin Classics When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. ISBN13: (03/01/2013) Lord of the Flies William Golding Faber & Faber First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of younger readers not only in this country but overseas. ISBN13: (01/01/1973) Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Penguin Classics Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more. ISBN13: (26/01/2006)

3 Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection Children's Paperback J. K. Rowling Bloomsbury Childrens Books 5-11 years ISBN13: (09/10/2014) A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens William Collins HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ISBN13: (01/04/2010) The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Penguin Books Ltd Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. ISBN13: (04/03/2010)

4 Great Expectations from 2.50from 1.78 Charles Dickens Wordsworth Editions Ltd Traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. As Pip unravels truth behind his own expectations in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of past and the fate through a series of adventures steers him towards maturity and an important discovery. ISBN13: (05/05/1992) TECbook TECbook Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Penguin Classics When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. ISBN13: (30/01/2003) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Definitions years Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.if you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. ISBN13: (13/02/2014)

5 Jane Eyre from 2.50from 1.78 Charlotte Bronte Wordsworth Editions Ltd Ranked as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction, this title portrays the heroine, who although poor and of plain appearance, possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. ISBN13: (05/05/1992) TECbook TECbook Brave New World Aldous Huxley Vintage Classics Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer'What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact. ISBN13: (06/12/2007) Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Oxford University Press Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language, and a potent tale of revenge. This new edition explores its extraordinary power and unique style and narrative structure, and includes a selection of poems by Emily Bronte. ISBN13: (08/10/2009)

6 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Penguin Classics Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear. ISBN13: (30/01/2003) Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Vintage Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present daythe wartime classic behind the BBC drama starring Eddie RedmayneTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER1910. ISBN13: (03/07/2014) A Kestrel for a Knave Hines Barry Penguin Classics Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. ISBN13: (25/05/2000)

7 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Oxford University Press A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pursuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. ISBN13: (12/06/2008) The Book Thief Zusak Markus Definitions years It is In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. ISBN13: (03/01/2008) The Kite Runner Hosseini Khaled Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Over 21 million copies sold worldwide ISBN13: (05/09/2011)

8 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Penguin Books Ltd Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? ISBN13: (31/03/2011) A Passage to India E. M. Forster Penguin Books Ltd When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. ISBN13: (06/08/2015) Private Peaceful Morpurgo Michael HarperCollins 9-13 years *OUT OF PRINT - Alternative edition available * Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. ISBN13: (29/05/2004)

9 The Hobbit Tolkien J. R. R. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. ISBN13: (23/02/1996) A Monster Calls Dowd Siobhan, Ness Patrick Walker Books Ltd years The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness, soon to be a major motion picture. ISBN13: (07/05/2015) Holes from 6.99from 4.96 Louis Sachar Bloomsbury Publishing PLC years `This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanley's desert prison burning off the page. A total must-read' The Times `Totally absorbing and beautifully written' The Bookseller ISBN13: (07/05/2015) TECbook

10 Catch Jacobson Howard, Heller Joseph Vintage WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSONExplosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. ISBN13: (06/10/1994) Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman Corgi Childrens years *Out of Print - Penguin Alternative available * Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger... ISBN13: (08/08/2006) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from 2.50from 1.78 Robert Louis Stevenson Wordsworth Editions Ltd years First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories ISBN13: (05/07/1993) TECbook TECbook

11 War Horse Michael Morpurgo Egmont Books Ltd years In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. ISBN13: (04/09/2006) Atonement Ian McEwan Vintage On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. ISBN13: (02/05/2002) HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY boxed set Collins Suzanne Scholastic years Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. ISBN13: (06/09/2012)

12 Northern Lights Philip Pullman Scholastic years Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... ISBN13: (03/03/2011) Dracula Bram Stoker Penguin Classics When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; and the lunatic Renfield raves about the imminent arrival of his 'master'. ISBN13: (27/03/2003) Fahrenheit Bradbury Ray HarperCollins The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. ISBN13: (30/06/1993)

13 A Room with a View E. M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury Penguin Classics Visiting Florence with her cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but she finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world and the yearnings of her heart. ISBN13: (31/08/2000) Wonder R. J. Palacio Corgi Childrens 9-11 years Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. ISBN13: (03/02/2012) Emma Jane Austen, James Kinsley Oxford University Press Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that explores how Austen transmutes the everyday into the revelatory. ISBN13: (01/12/2008)

14 Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate Ltd WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece ISBN13: (15/01/2007) The Color Purple Alice Walker Weidenfeld & Nicolson *OUT OF PRINT - Alternative edition available * The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. ISBN13: (05/06/2014) Oliver Twist from 2.50from 1.78 Charles Dickens Wordsworth Editions Ltd Contains many Dickensian themes - poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of adversity. This book features some of the characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. ISBN13: (05/05/1992) TECbook TECbook

15 Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories from 7.99from 5.75 Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget, etc. Wordsworth Editions Ltd The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. ISBN13: (29/04/1996) TECbook TECbook Cider With Rosie Laurie Lee Vintage Classics Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past. ISBN13: (05/09/2002) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Penguin Classics years Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. ISBN13: (05/05/2005)

16 Anita and Me Meera Syal Flamingo years The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. ISBN13: (07/04/1997) Around the World in Eighty Days Verne Jules William Collins HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ISBN13: (01/04/2010) Skellig David Almond Hodder Children's Books years Michael's world after his family moves house seems lonely and frightening, when his new baby sister is fighting for her life in hospital. Then he discovers something - a creature in the crumbling garage, and nothing is ever the same. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award and Hans Christian Andersen Award ISBN13: (19/03/2009)

17 Life Of Pi Yann Martel Canongate Books Ltd Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for fiction ISBN13: (17/05/2003) Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy William Collins HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ISBN13: (01/04/2010) Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer Puffin 9-11 years ISBN13: (07/04/2011)

18 A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works 1.99 Swift Jonathan Dover Publications Inc. ISBN13: (02/02/1996) 1.99 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin Classics Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? ISBN13: (26/01/2006) Brighton Rock Coetzee J. M., Greene Graham Vintage Classics A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. This book aims to expose a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'. ISBN13: (07/10/2004)

19 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. ISBN13: (25/02/2010) The Fault in Our Stars John Green Penguin Books Ltd years Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. ISBN13: (03/01/2013) Dubliners from 2.50from 1.80 James Joyce, Laurence Davies, Keith Carabine Wordsworth Editions Ltd Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. ISBN13: (05/04/1993) TECbook TECbook

20 Face Benjamin Zephaniah Bloomsbury Publishing PLC years *Out of Print - Alternative available * Tells how a young man adapts to facial disfigurement after a joy-riding car accident. ISBN13: (07/05/1999) When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (celebration edition) Kerr Judith HarperCollins 9-11 years This unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing Germany before the Second World War, is now available in a special hardback edition to celebrate the 90th birthday of its author Judith Kerr, with a reproduction of the original illustrated cover. Hardback Book ISBN13: (14/06/2013) White Teeth Zadie Smith Penguin Books Ltd Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, this book is written with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life. ISBN13: (25/01/2001)

21 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Scholastic 6-11 years When young Jim Hawkins meets Billy Bones, he quickly becomes intrigued by the mysterious former pirate. But little does Jim know that their meeting will soon send him on a path of swash-buckling adventure across the ocean in the attempt to track down the treasure marked on a pirate's map... ISBN13: (07/11/2013) Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton Vintage Classics Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. ISBN13: (01/08/2002) Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Dick Philip K. Gateway Philip K. Dick's classic SF novel, which was adapted as the film BLADE RUNNER. ISBN13: (29/03/2010)

22 I am David Holm Anne Egmont Books Ltd 8-10 years **Out of print - New addition: ** The story of a young boy's journey through Europe after escaping from the camp where he had lived all his life. Sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. And David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people. ISBN13: (07/09/1989) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Faber & Faber Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. ISBN13: (02/06/2005) V For Vendetta New (New Edition Tpb) David Lloyd, Alan Moore DC Comics In an alternate future in which Germany wins World War II and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named "V" tries to free England of its ideological chains. ISBN13: (24/10/2008)

23 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott Penguin Classics A story of Joad family, who are forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. ISBN13: (07/09/2000) A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues Martin George R. R. HarperCollins HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. ISBN13: (04/07/2012) The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Vintage Classics Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. ISBN13: (04/02/1999)

24 Empire of the Sun Lanchester John, Ballard J. G. Fourth Estate Ltd The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. ISBN13: (21/04/2006) On the Road Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters Penguin Classics Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. ISBN13: (24/02/2000) The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LUCY HUGHES-HALLETTThe Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. He has since risen from his humble origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever and he has many hard lessons left to learn. ISBN13: (03/06/2010)

25 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Deane Seamus, Joyce James Penguin Classics Both an insight into James Joyce's life and childhood, this novel is about sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves. ISBN13: (24/02/2000) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Vintage Classics Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe? ISBN13: (01/04/2010) A Gathering Light Donnelly Jennifer Bloomsbury Publishing PLC years An astounding novel about a girls coming-of-age inter-woven with a real life murder that rocked turn-of-the-century America. Winner of the 2004 Carnegie Medal. ISBN13: (03/05/2004)

26 Heroes Robert Cormier, Matt Jones, Matt Jones Puffin years Tells a provocative story about the return home of teenage war hero and war victim, Francis Joseph Cassavant. This book gets to the heart of human nature and the moral issues and choices we have to make. ISBN13: (26/06/1999) Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah Bloomsbury Publishing PLC years *Out of Print - alternative available * A novel for young adults about the complex issue of refugees. ISBN13: (28/08/2001) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Parker Ralph, Solzhenitsyn Alexander Penguin Classics Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. This work lets you participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life. ISBN13: (30/11/2000)

27 Schindler's Ark (flipback edition) Keneally Thomas Sceptre Winner of the Booker Prize and international bestseller ISBN13: (28/12/2006) Forever Judy Blume Macmillan Children's Books years Judy Blume's classic novel, with a gorgeous contemporary cover look to celebrate the 40th anniversary ISBN13: (01/01/2015) Coram Boy Gavin Jamila Egmont Books Ltd years Doomed babies entrusted to the care of a villain...children sold as slaves, an aristocrat's son disinherited when he refuses to give up a career in music - all these stories come together in this amazing story of adventure. Ages 10+. ISBN13: (01/01/2015)

28 Stone Cold Jones Matt, Swindells Robert Puffin years ***OLD EDITION, REPLACED BY *** ISBN13: (30/03/1995) A Time To Dance MacLaverty Bernard Vintage In Phonefun Limited Sadie and Agnes, retired prostitutes hit upon an inventive new way of making someone happy with a phone call, while in My Dear Palestrina' a remarkable music teacher initiates her pupil into the mysteries of art and maturity. ISBN13: (04/11/1999) Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood Virago Press Ltd Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. ISBN13: (15/02/1990)

29 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Sceptre Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year ISBN13: (09/09/2004) The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Penguin Classics Naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. ISBN13: (24/04/2012) Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Puffin 8-11 years Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Even though she runs faster than him, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay - she's clever and funny and not a bit soppy. ISBN13: (02/07/2015)

30 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Oxford University Press 5-11 years Set in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Kidnapped is a thrilling adventure story in which young David Balfour flees for his life across the Scottish Highlands in the company of the rebel Alan Breck Stewart. This is a new edition of a key work of 19th-century fiction and Scottish literature, with critical introduction and notes. ISBN13: (10/04/2014) The Time Machine Gibson William, McLean Steve, Warner Marina, Parrinder Patrick, Wells H. G. Penguin Classics When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. ISBN13: (31/03/2005)

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