Robert Swindells

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. 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.

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.

Life in a small village at the start of WW2 consists of rationing, bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too...This gripping Second World War drama from classroom favourite, Robert Swindells, is packed with drama and suspense - perfect to engage KS3 students. The Reading Guide provides students with a magazine-format approach to the text, packed with engaging activities and background information.

Life in a small village at the start of WW2 consists of rationing, bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too! This gripping Second World War drama from classroom favourite, Robert Swindells, is packed with drama and suspense - perfect to engage KS3 students.

När Josh tänder en eld spelar inget annat någon roll. Det är bara han och lågorna. I just det ögonblicket. Och känslan av makt. Men den som leker med elden ... En lättläst bok om ett skrämmande och aktuellt ämne, skriven av Robert Swindells, som bland annat är belönad med Carnegiemedaljen och Children's Book Award. På Argasso har han tidigare utkommit med de populära ungdomsböckerna "Vittne", "Ormbiten" och "Knivsegg".

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 . . .

Robert Swindell's Henry V is a gripping retelling of Shakespeare's famous historical play. Battles and scenes of warfare are never far from the young King Henry. This retelling brings to life the tumultuous struggle of the heroic young monarch as he fights to protect his kingdom and his life. The Shakespeare Today series captures the magic of Shakespeare's text and sets it in an accessible and contemporary style.

Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing...There is no Room 13 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 12. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister...A gripping page-turner from the master of spooky suspense, award-winning Robert Swindells.

"What year is this?" When Charlie falls off a stepping stone in the woods, her whole world suddenly changes. She stumbles in the 21st century, and picks herself up in the middle of the 20th! There are no trainers, no mobile phones - and she's a pupil at a weird outdoor school where the classrooms don't even have walls. Somehow, Charlie has slipped through a nick of time. Can her new friend Jack help her find a way back - or will she be trapped in the past forever? Written in Robert Swindells' trademark snappy prose, this novel about education in 1950s Britain is sure to become a favourite with students and teachers alike.

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?

Snapshot er målrettet elever i 8.-10. klasse. I got four shots. The two guys as they ran back to the car. The driver as he yelled at them to get a move on. The car as it began to move off, with the axeman’s head and arm still outside. The last picture was of the car coming straight at me. The driver had spotted me and my camera. Smile please – only he wasn’t smiling. He was bent low over the steering wheel, curled up like some sort of psycho.

Klick. Så enkelt är det. Att ta en bild. Att förändra ett liv. Victor hade inga planer på att bli inblandad. Men om man har en kamera och blir vittne till något underligt så knäpper man ett kort, eller hur? Inget konstigt med det. Men tänk om man har råkat fotografera ett brott? Och att någon nu vill förstöra fotona - till varje pris? En jakt drar igång på stadens gator, och hans förföljare skyr inga medel för att nå sitt mål. Kommer Victor att lyckas överleva? En spännande och lättläst ungdomsbok av den flerfaldigt prisbelönade författaren Robert Swindells.

George is fascinated by World War Two. 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.

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. 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.

I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare - of falling downstairs. 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?

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

Marthas Eltern gehören einer Sekte an. Das hat verheerende Auswirkungen auf ihre Kindheit: Kein Fernsehen, kein PC, keine coolen Klamotten. In der Schule ist sie das Gespött ihrer Mitschüler. Aber das Schlimmste: Niemand darf sie zu Hause besuchen, denn im Keller ist ein furchtbares Familiengeheimnis versteckt. Erst als die nun Zwölfjährige einen neuen Mitschüler zum Freund gewinnt, nimmt der Lauf der Dinge eine erstaunliche Wendung. Diese provokante Geschichte wird in aktueller Jugendsprache abwechselnd aus der Sicht der beiden Protagonisten erzählt. Ausführlich annotiert. Einsetzbar ab Klasse 9 (Klasse 10 Realschule). 104 Seiten