Books for older children (9+)
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A Dog's BreakfastWritten by Annie Graves.Glen is a nasty little boy who always moans and lies. After a strange encounter in the woods, he suddenly disappears, and the only one who seems to know what happened to him is a dog. And everyone knows that dogs can’t talk. Right? |
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Guinea Pig KillerWritten by Annie Graves.When Dolly goes off to Irish College, she leaves her brother Sandy in charge of Princess Snowflake. But the thing about guinea pigs is that you kind of need to feed them. Or else … |
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Help! My Brother's A Zombie!Written by Annie Graves.Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn’t. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club’s Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. This is the story Jack told. His older brother Stephen was a great friend … until he started to change. His smell. His face. His friends. His diet. |
MirroredWritten by Annie Graves.No one really understood Abbey, except for Bee. A new friend, right in her own house, just on the other side of the mirror. What could possibly go wrong? |
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Over the WallWritten by Renate Ahrens.Karo’s dad is dead – or so she believes – and when a stranger comes to the door one day looking for her mum, Karo wants nothing to do with this man. But Karo’s mother won’t see sense. She starts to spend more and more time with this strange man from her past, and can’t see how unhappy it is all making her daughter. Karo squabbles with her friend, starts to skip school, she even runs away to her grandfather, but nothing she can do seems to have any effect on her changing family. Set in Hamburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a story of how international events can affect the everyday lives of ordinary families. |