Robert Swindells

Ivan lives in a land where the winter is dark and fearful. Starjik, King of Winter, steals Ivan's little brother and Ivan braves the bitter cold to find him.

Cuando Charlie despierta, después de haberse golpeado, ya nada es como antes. Ella pertenece al siglo XXI pero aparece en mitad del XX, en una época en la que no hay móviles, ni ordenadores, ni relojes digitales Nadie sabe quien es. Y nadie la cree ¿Conseguira, con la ayuda de su fiel amigo Jack, volver al presente o quedara para siempre atrapada en un pasado que no le pertenece?

Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. 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 Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children''s Book Award twice, for Brother In The Land and for Room 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold, and also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger''s War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent''s Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; and The Last Bus.

Educational edition of Robert Swindells'' gripping, atmospheric thrillerImprove your English, and reading, skills with unabridged contemporary literature. "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. Some how, 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.

Era el mes de enero y una gruesa capa de nieve cubría el suelo. Rolf, el repartidor de leche, y su hija Rosi, se quejaba del terrible frío; querían vivir en un lugar donde siempre hiciera calor. Así que un buen dia Rolf cambio su camion repartidor por una pequeña nave espacial. Rolf y Rosi hicieron sus maletas, echaron llave a la casa y se apretujaron en la nave. Adios Tierra- grito Rolf-. Adios lluvia, granizo, nieve. Adios y hasta nunca.

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?

La nit abans de l'excursió escolar, Fliss te un malson en el qual entra dins d'una casa fosca i sinistra amb un terrible secret a l'habitació 13. Quan l'endemà arriben a l'hotel on s'estaran, Fliss s

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 MedalRobert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children''s Book Award twice, for BROTHER IN THE LAND and for ROOM 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, and also the Sheffield Book Award.

Now you see them, now you dont...What would you do if you could become invisible? Creep around, unseen? Listen in to other peoples conversations? Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte do all these things, and much more, when a new girl at school - Rosie - shows them her secret: how to make yourself invisible. Its exciting, and its fun. It can also be frightening... and dangerous. Especially when Rosies dad becomes a suspect in a local crime and the gang go invisible to find the real crooks...

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...

The skeleton lay on its back. The jaws gaped and one arm lay across the chest as through flung there to ward off a blow . . . The Tangle is a long, narrow stretch of derelict land, a wilderness of weeds and rubbish with an old railway tunnel yawning blackly at one end. No-one - not even bullying Gary Deacon - dares venture far into its sooty darkness. But it is here that twelve-year-old Tan and his friends make a grisly discovery - a discovery that is to plunge them into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel slowly unfolds its sinister secret . . .

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 theyve heard of the treasure too . . .

When Jacqueline Hyde finds the little glass bottle in Grandmas attic her life suddenly changes. Goodbye clean, good Jacqueline. Hello cheeky, loud Jacqueline Bad.Its fun at first. Exciting. But then Jacqueline Bad gets into serious trouble. And although she keeps trying to be her old self, the bad side just wont let go...A darkly addictive fable, truly absorbing.