Theme: bullies

Out of Shadows

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

A debut novel set in the early 1980s at a boy’s boarding school in the newly formed country of Zimbabwe.

Descriptors: Africa, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18), Zimbabwe » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Mammoth Academy in Trouble!

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

Oscar, Arabella, and their friends can’t wait to begin their second termat theMammoth Academy. But when they arrive at school on the first day after winter break, there’s a threatening graffiti message waiting for them. It seems the Cave Skool has moved nearby, and its pupils—those wild and dangerous animals called humans—are wreaking havoc. When [...]

Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Celandine (David Fickling Books)

By Book Importer | Published: February 22, 2010

Set seventy years before The Various, the second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seeks shelter in the Wild Wood [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment