Dusty’s life has fallen apart. Her mother left after Dusty’s brother mysteriously disappeared, and her father is devastated. Then Dusty gets a seemingly random phone call: a boy’s voice saying, “I’m dying.” At first Dusty doesn’t care, but then the boy says things that only Dusty knows. Things that lead her to believe he knows where her brother is. And after a few more calls, Dusty wants to find this boy, but he doesn’t want to be found. He claims he is too dangerous, and there are many people who agree. Can Dusty avoid getting hurt and still protect this mysterious boy who may not be of this world? Watch a Video

Frozen Fire

Teen & Young Adult

Bowler, Tim

Literature & Fiction

Speak

Nobody knows the city like Blade. He lives on his own, by his wits - you have to when you're on the run from your past. Blade is practically invisible, until one day when he gets jumped by a gang and finds himself being pursued by a bunch of thugs. Even worse, he's unintentionally picked up a couple of followers: sixteen-year-old Becky and her daughter, Jaz. Before he knows it, Blade is leading the two girls on a chase through the streets of London, and he'll need to find a way to outsmart the people after them in order to make it out alive.

Blade: Playing Dead

Penguin Young Readers Group

Bleeding and dizzy, Blade wakes up to find himself in the hospitalÑand with too many enemies to count, it's hard to know who attacked him. But he knows that whoever it was will be back to finish him off. So Blade gathers up his strength to break out, and ends up on the run while gravely injured. And this time, if he plays dead, that's exactly how he'll end up.,br> Carnegie MedalÐwinning author Tim Bowler delivers another fastÐpaced chase through rough city streets in this exciting follow-up to Blade Book 1: Playing Dead.

Blade: Out of the Shadows

Dragon's Rock

The dragon was upon him once more, racing like an angry fire through his sleep. Sleep had become a place of fear, a place where the dragon hunted him. But now, the boy has a chance to put things right, and start to live again.

Oxford University Press

Left under his older brother's care when his mother dies in childbirth, Midget, a physically challenged boy, is viciously abused by his brother throughout his first fifteen years, and Midget's only friend is an elderly boat builder.

Midget

Contemporary

River Boy

Jamie's father is obsessed with the idea that Jamie will become a world squash champion and succeed where he had not. But Jamie does't share his father's single-minded ambition and is desperate to escape from the verbal and physical abuse that will follow when he fails. Then Jamie finds the girl hiding in his shed, and in helping her to escape from her past and the danger that is pursuing her, he is able to put his own problems in perspective and realize that he must come out of the shadows and face up to his father. Interest age 12+. This book is intended for interest age 12+

Shadows

When Ella is kidnapped, her family don't realize just what a nightmare they are entering. Because the kidnapper has more than just money on his mind - and as his plans unfold, all the members of the family are forced to confront their deepest, darkest secrets.This is a major new novel from the author of the Carnegie medal-winning "River Boy".* Prize-winning author: Tim Bowler has won the Carnegie Medal, the Angus Book Prize (twice), and the Lancashire Children's Book Award.* A tightly-plotted, exciting thriller, with a real sense of tension and danger.* Brilliantly-handled themes of betrayal, trust, and revenge.* Wonderful fresh cover design - being issued simultaneously with new matching editions of "River Boy" and "Shadows".* Author was born and brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and now lives in Totnes, Devon.

Storm Catchers

Good hands, Luke, Dad had said. So don't ever put them to bad use. Yet that's just what Luke is about to do - break into a house and prove he's a real part of the gang. But nobody is prepared for what he finds inside. Something so unexpected it will change his life forever. A wonderfully rich novel from Carnegie Medal winner, Tim Bowler, written with lyricism, drama, and power, and filled with the sense of a universe bursting with music.

Starseeker

Oxford Univ. Pr.

After a dramatic accident Kit and his parents find themselves washed up on a small island. But there is no sanctuary here. The local community is hostile and menacing. Soon Kit's life is in danger and he is forced to face not just the inhabitants but a disturbing new arrival whose presence onthe island terrifies the community. In his struggle to stay alive and make sense of what is happening Kit is forced to confront good and evil in unexpected forms, even within himself, and face trials and dangers beyond anything he could have imagined.* Tim Bowler's most recent novel, Starseeker, has sold over 50,000 copies to date.

Apocalypse

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