In Sarah's Shadow
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Catherine Margaret Holmes Loving and dutiful daughter.
Cathy Holmes A-level, A-grade student.
Cath Holmes Friend and confidante.
Cat Risk taker, thrill seeker, rebel.
Will that do as an introduction?
“It’s not often that a book makes me think I must go out and find some more of this author’s work now, but that’s the effect Disconnected had on me. I was well and truly blown away”
Fiona McKinlay, teenage reviewer for whsonline.co.uk
ZEROLO
MARK SWALLOW
I hereby dedicate my Business Studies GCSE to my father. I don’t need it because, Dad, I am the business.
Jack is fed up with other people’s decisions. Can’t he run his life on his own terms? He’s pretty famous at school – Jack Curling, entrepreneur and wheeler-dealer. Still his dad can’t see that he’s OK doing it his way So it’s time to prove a point. The exam is waiting. Can Jack score precisely zero per cent?
“A sassy book with some strong language and a lot of verve.”
The Observer
BREADERS
JULIA CLARKE
Bianca is dressed in white, like a delicate oriental bird that has landed here by accident. Before she speaks she lights a cigarette. She only smokes when she’s upset. “We’re going to have a complete break from London. We’re leaving.”
Cat no longer recognises her life. Uprooted from the city by their actress mother, she and her younger sister Ana must adapt to living by the sea in Yorkshire. Nothing is the same – it’s hard to tell friends from enemies, and truth from lies. Soon Cat finds herself caught up in conflicts as powerful as the breakers pounding the shore…
“Unsentimental, gritty and funny, there’s only one possible result: Teenagers 1, Parents 0.”
achuka.co.uk
ALCHEMY
MARGARET MAHY
“I am Quando the Magician!” the man cries. “I work enchantments. But never forget – is your job to work out just where the trick leaves off and the true magic begins.”
Roland has everything a young man could wish for – good looks, enough money, a ready wit, sexy girlfriend and a perfect school record. So the fact that he committed a petty crime is something he can hardly explain to himself, let alone anyone else. Worse still, Mr Hudson, his teacher, knows all about it, and uses this knowledge to blackmail Roland into befriending misfit Jess Ferret. But when Jess doesn’t repond to Roland’s confident advances, he becomes intrigued with the girl for his own reasons…
Self-empowerment meets the supernatural in this astonishing new novel from an internationally acclaimed, multiple award-winning novelist.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
ROBERT CORMIER
Do not pick up the phone. Let your mother or me answer it. If it’s for you, I will hand it over. Alone in the house, you do not answer.
The phone calls come every year, waking Denny up in the middle of the night. Every year, Denny’s father calmly answers. He never speaks. He simply listens. But this year it’s different. It’s twenty-five years since the fire, the terrible tragedy for which Denny’s father bears the blame. The tragedy which triggered these calls, year in, year out. This year, Denny has had enough. This year, he will pick up the phone – and face the consequences.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
“One of the most tautly written and frightening of Robert Cormier’s always scary novels.”
Independent
About the Author
As a teenager growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, Karen McCombie had three clear objectives:
work as a graphic artist;
never leave Scotland;
never get married.
But fate has a funny way of messing with things and Karen is now a full-time writer, living in leafy North London with her husband and an interesting collection of cats.
Prior to this she worked as a journalist on a variety of magazines, including J17 and Sugar, and began her book-writing career with several teen novels published under pseudynoms – including many for the Sugar Secrets…range.
Under her own name, Karen is author of the bestselling Ally’s World series, as well as several more teen novels.
When she’s not writing, Karen’s top five hobbies are watching videos (preferably with a takeaway curry), going to gigs, reading, patting cats and belly-dancing. You can find out more about Karen on her website:
www.karenmccombie.com.
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First published in Great Britain by CollinsFlamingo 2003
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Text © Karen McCombie 2003
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