Jamila Gavin

This book features three alien adventures - not for the faint-hearted!"The Stranger from Somewhere in Time" by Sam McBratney - Helen, Lorna, Foxy, Murdo and Bopper bury a time capsule, without really expecting anything to happen. So imagine their surprise when they receive a message from the future! Who is the stranger from somewhere in time?"Deadly Friend" by Jamila Gavin - A strange new boy at school and a new computer game suddenly take over Mohun's life. When the deadly game and real life merge, Mohun must save his best friend from annihilation."The Pen-Pal from Outer Space" by Franzeska G. Ewart - Jasbir hates her new school. She can't find any friends and she's the only person without a pen-pal. But when a mysterious letter arrives on Jasbir's desk, all her problems are solved by the pen-pal from outer space...Dare you have a close encounter with these extra terrestrials?

This book includes three alien adventures - not for the faint-hearted: "The Stranger from Somewhere in Time" by Sam McBratney: Helen, Lorna, Foxy, Murdo and Bopper bury a time capsule, without really expecting anything to happen. So imagine their surprise when they receive a message from the future! Who is the stranger from somewhere in time? "Deadly Friend" by Jamila Gavin: A strange new boy at school and a new computer game suddenly take over Mohun's life. When the deadly game and real life merge, Mohun must save his best friend from annihilation; "The Pen-Pal from Outer Space" by Franzeska G. Ewart: Jasbir hates her new school. She can't find any friends and she's the only person without a pen-pal. But when a mysterious letter arrives on Jasbir's desk, all her problems are solved by the pen-pal from outer space.

An epic adventure filled with danger and excitement. Perfect for studying author s craft, plot and comparing two writers from different centuries. On stage, this script is great for creating high dramatic tension and provides 15 colourful parts.

Grandpa Chatterji has invited his British grandchildren to visit Calcutta. From the moment their plane lands, and Grandpa greets them with garlands of marigolds and jasmine, Neetu and Sanjay know this will be a very special holiday.

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England. In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies (and their money) to Thomas Coram's hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the loot. But Otis's downfall is set in train when his half-witted son Meshak falls in love with a young girl, Melissa, and rescues the unwanted son she has had with a disgraced aristocrat. The child is brought up in Coram's hospital, and proves to have inherited the startling musical gifts of his father - gifts that ultimately bring about his father's redemption and a heartbreaking family reunion. Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Jamila Gavin's award-winning novel, Coram Boy, was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2005. It won the Time Out Live Award for Best Play. 'A rich and almost Gothic drama' - Philip Pullman

A thrilling and exotic story of a boy's search for his father. Felipe crosses from Venice to Hindustan, enduring the dangers of the desert and the Moghul court with its plots in his journey. He must lose the thing he prizes most to save his father's life. Jamila Gavin is a winner of the Whitbread Award for her bestselling novel 'Coram Boy', also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

A science fiction fantasy in which a little girl falls into a large crack - a wormhole - and it is up to her step-brother and a girl with cerebral palsy to help her. Then they encounter a strange professor who takes them to new worlds, and gives them the chance to find where they truly belong.

A strange new boy at school and a new computer game suddenly take over Mohun's life. When the deadly game and real life merge, Mohun must save his best friend from annihilation.

This play tells the story of Rama and Sita from the Indian epic poem "The Ramayana". From Rama's banishment to his triumph, helped by an army of monkeys, over the ten-headed Demon King, Ravana, this tale is framed by scenes set in the present in which a family prepares for Diwali.

The dramatic final volume in the Wheel of Surya trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin.In 1947 India is rocked by the Independence movement and partition with Pakistan. Their lives disrupted by violence, Jaspal and Marvinder are sent from their Indian village to find their father, who is a student in England. In The Track of the Wind, Jaspal and Marvinder are reunited with their mother in India, but their fight for independence goes on.A story touching on culture, class, faith and family set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. No children's books about India conveys these issues and themes with the effortless ease of Jamila Gavin. Her diverse voice is the perfect introduction to this period of history, for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman's Once, and Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder.

A story about India and about caring, nurturing and friendship, and a young boy's ability to adapt to strange surroundings.

One starry night, Hanuman the monkey god appears in Amrita's bedroom. He takes her on a magical journey into the story of Diwali, the Festival of Light and the New Year. She witnesses the most terrifying battle on earth, when Good fights Evil to bring light back into the world.

A brilliant story about coming of age - and the original backpacker novel. Reissue.

Neeta and her little brother Sanjay have two grandpas. One day Grandpa Chatterji comes to visit and they discover what a wonderful, loving and surprising grandpa he is...