Selda feels completely uprooted when she moves with her mother and sisters from Turkey to live with her father in Switzerland. At school, she can neither understand the language nor the lifestryle of the people around her. But Selda is a fighter. Her independence and strength of spirit gain her an unlikely set of friends, and as she is increasingly drawn into their lives, she finds herself forced to make a decision between her old life and a new beginning.

The Frozen Waterfall

Gaye Hiçyılmaz

Children's Books

Faber Childrens

Mehmet does not understand why his family wants to leave their beautiful, blossom-filled village to move to the city. Their new home on the hills around Ankara is in the shanty-town, and there Mehmet must learn different ways of surviving life on the streets - fast. He makes new friends, like Muhlis, who deals in scrap, and rediscovers his boyhood companion Hayri, now starving and desperate. Through their eyes, Mehmet begins to recognise the trap that poverty has sprung around them - and he forges plans to escape to a better life. An enthralling and unforgettable story about poverty and injustice, from award-winning novelist Gaye Hiçyilmaz.

Against the Storm

Gay Hicyilmaz

Literature & Fiction

This anthology contains poems by authors from many different backgrounds, cultures and geographies, including: A.A. Milne; Lewis Carroll; Seamus Heaney; Ted Hughes; and Carol Ann Duffy. It is compiled by Matthew Sweeney, one of today's most original poets writing for children.

The New Faber Book of Children's Verse

Vese

A retelling of classic children's tales by The Brothers Grimm, including "Snow White", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Ashputtel" ("Cinderella") and "Little Red-cap". This interpretation by Carol Ann Duffy seeks to remove the sugariness of contemporary versions and return to the orginal, darker mould.

Rumpelstiltskin

Carol Ann Duffy

This is one of a series which takes an experiment-based approach to science and is designed to fit directly with the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2. The texts feature episodes in the life of an eccentric family - the Sparks - with a fascination for science experiments which are skilfully woven into the storyline for children to try at home. This time, there are mysterious goings-on in the night sky above Duckpool. Flashing lights, sightings of UFOs, weird noises...when the rumours start to fly about alien visitors, the Spark family decide to step in and investigate.

The Spark Files (Bk. 7)

Barbara Ellen, Terry Deary

Learn to decipher the language of the pharaohs and solve the riddle of the pyramids with "The Hieroglyphs Handbook". This is hieroglyphics for beginners; an opportunity for the child on the street to walk into a museum and, using their handbook, translate an Ancient Egyptian inscription from scratch. A visit to the museum will never be the same again and a trip to Egypt will become evenmore of an adventure. The book is divided into three sections: a background history, giving the historical context; a practical section explaining how the language works and is written; and, a glossary/phrasebook containing the alphabet and all the essential words and phrases.

The Hieroglyphs Handbook: Teach Yourself Ancient Egyptian

Philip, Ardagh

Ill, and confined to bed, Marianne doodles eerie pictures of a house, a boy, and some strange stones. She begins to have strange dreams as she becomes drawn into the world she has created on paper.

Marianne Dreams

Catherine Storr

Paperback. Good. Remainder. General wear to edges.

Awful End (The Eddie Dickens Trilogy #1)

Teen & Young Adult

A clanking iron giant topples from a cliff and lies smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts begin to stir and reach out for one another. The Iron Man is ready to walk again, and he is very hungry .

Iron Giant (Film Tie-in)

TED HUGHES

An anthology that aims to do two things: to set fire to the imagination and to bring together a collection of memorable poems. It includes poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Lennon, Jo Shapcott and Lewis Carroll. Ages 7+.

Because a Fire Was in My Head : 101 Poems to Remember

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