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14+ Alex Scarrow British Books Challenge fantasy Red House Children's Book Award RHCBA awards 2011 science-fiction time-travelling

TimeRiders

Alex Scarrow(Puffin) Liam O’Connor (1912), Maddy Carter (2010), Sal Vikram (2026). Three teenagers, living decades away from each other are suddenly thrown together in a small room near Brooklyn Bridge, in September 2001. They have one things in common: all three should have died, all three were given the choice to turn away from their …

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11+ British Books Challenge Carnegie Longlist 2011 Gregory Hughes New York orphans road trips

Unhooking the Moon

Gregory Hughes(Quercus) When their father dies unexpectedly, Marie-Claire (better known as the Rat) and her older brother Bob find themselves orphaned. Desperate not to be separated, they would rather walk from the Canadian prairies to downtown New York to find their only remaining family member, an uncle they have never met, than to be discovered and taken in by …

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9+ Afghanistan asylym seekers British Books Challenge dogs friendship immigration Michael Morpurgo RHCBA awards 2011 Taliban war

Shadow

Michael Morpurgowith illustrations by Christian Birmingham(Harpercollins Children’s Books) When Matt goes to spend the summer with his grandfather and his dog, he has no idea that he is very close to his friend Aman, who was suddenly taken from his home with his mother weeks ago and is now imprisoned in a nearby detention centre, Yarl’s Wood, …

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11+ Anthony McGowan British Books Challenge Eleanor Updale Frank Cottrell-Boyce history Linda Newbery Mal Peet Marcus Sedgwick Matt Whyman Philip Ardagh short stories

The Truth is Dead

Marcus Sedgwick (editor)(Walker Books) Have you ever imagined what the world would be like if things had worked out differently during significant moments in history? If a minute little detail had been changed? The smallest change could, after all, alter the world as we know it. This is what this anthology tackles with eight short …

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