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Роберт Свинделлс — новинки
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- 18 изданий на 3 языках
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In the Nick of Time Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552577168 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship -
Abomination Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780141379234 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Penguin A powerful, disturbing thriller reissued in The Originals series of classic teenage fiction.
Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomination - could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder. Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known?
The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths -
Stone Cold Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 978-3-12-578145-0 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Ernst Klett Sprachen Язык: Английский Link is sixteen and homeless. Streetwise Ginger, also homeless, befriends Link and shows him how to survive on the streets of London. Then Ginger disappears without a trace and Link is desperate.
Meanwhile, a man who calls himself Shelter, a former army sergeant, walks the streets of London in search of "recruits" for a very special army of his own. Who will be his next victim? -
Ruby Tanya Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780440863984 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so her parents have to return without her. She hides in a nearby derelict building and is helped by Ruby Tanya. -
Room 13 Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780440864653 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing . . . There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister . . . A gripping page-turner from a master of spooky suspense, award-winning Robert Swindells. Don't read this under the covers at midnight! -
In the Nick of Time Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555852 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key - is Jack more than he seems? -
Abomination Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555883 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomination - could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder. Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known? -
Blitzed Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555890 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский George is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. But he discovers the reality is very different from how he had imagined it when a school trip to a World War Two museum leads to a timeslip - and George is in London at the time of the Blitz! He joins up with a group of other homeless children, struggling to survive. And then they suspect someone they know of being a German spy... -
Nightmare Stairs Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555906 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake. Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare - of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Then Kirsty discovers that her grandma died falling downstairs and she begins to wonder: is the dream hinting at a dark secret in her family? She has to know the truth. But tracking a murderer is a dangerous game, and as she delves into the past, Kirsty uncovers a secret more terrible than anything she can imagine. A terrifying read from one of today's master storytellers. WINNER OF THE SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD FOR BEST SHORTER NOVEL 'Cleverly put together - funny as well as gripping' The Sunday Times -
Room 13 And Inside The Worm Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555913 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский ROOM 13 Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing. There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room twelve. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister. INSIDE THE WORM The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her. Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance. -
Timesnatch Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552555920 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it? Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization... WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY -
Shrapnel Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552559300 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский It's the height of World War Two. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting. Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family . . . Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War One, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War Two - he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down, but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some 'packages'. But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible consequences? -
Blackout Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552561549 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский Another gripping World War Two drama from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells. Life in a small village is boring now the war is over, there is still rationing and bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things look at bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too . . . -
A Skull in Shadows Lane Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 9780552564090 Год издания: 2014 Язык: Английский The war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for - a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal face appears at a dark window . . . Believing there's a skeleton haunting Shadows Lane, the children are shocked to learn the truth about 'Boney' - he's an escaped prisoner of war. But someone else is also hiding in the village - someone much more dangerous. Tense and chilling, this is another fantastically gripping tale from the award-winning author of Room 13 and Stone Cold. -
Book at Bedtime - A Night with a Vampire 2 Эдит Уортон, Ричард Матесон, Анджела Картер, Fritz Lieber, Роберт Свинделлс
Год издания: 2011 Издательство: BBC Radio 4 Язык: Английский Дэвид Теннант снова читает истории о вампирах. Но если в прошлый раз, в 2010 году, первый выпуск состоял из пяти тревожных викторианских историй о вампирах, то в этот раз представляются истории 20 века, и мы знакомимся с неожиданными поворотами в развитии событий, происходящих в Великобритании и в США.
Продюсер: Клайв Брилл. -
Stone Cold Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 0140362517, 9780140362510 Год издания: 2005 Язык: Английский A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she's prepared to use herself as bait ... Winner of the Carnegie Medal -
Brother in the Land Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 0140373004 Год издания: 2000 Язык: Английский Denny, a teenager, is one of the unlucky ones, a survivor, one of those who have come through a nuclear war alive. In plain language he sets down all that has happened to him, what he sees, and what he feels in the first days after the bomb has dropped. This novel won The Other Award for 1984. -
Brother in the Land Роберт Свинделлс
ISBN: 978-0-241-33123-1 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Русский An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?
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