Bøger af 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

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.

Link ist 16 und obdachlos. Ginger, selbst seit längerer Zeit als Obdachloser in London, zeigt Link, wie man auf der Straße überlebt. Plötzlich verschwindet Ginger spurlos und Link ist verzweifelt. Ein ehemaliger Unteroffizier, der sich selbst Shelter nennt und der wegen psychischer Probleme aus der Armee entlassen wurde, will unter den jungen Obdachlosen "Rekruten" finden. Hat er etwas mit Gingers Verschwinden zu tun?Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich Crime

Die Zukunft: Der 15-jährige Daz lebt in der Innenstadt, einem umzäunten und unpassierbaren Ghetto von Verzweiflung und Verfall. Zoe ist eine Subby, ein Mädchen aus einem außerstädtischen Vorort, wo die Leute Jobs und schöne Häuser haben. Als Daz und Zoe sich verlieben, müssen sie sich nicht nur den Vorurteilen ihres jeweiligen sozialen Umfelds stellen, sondern auch bewaffneten und gefährlichen Sicherheitskräften. Können Daz und Zoe jemals frei sein?Abiturpflichttext in Niedersachsen 2014

Informationen zum Titel:In einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft ist die britische Gesellschaft geteilt: Die reiche, gebildete Bevölkerung (Subbies) lebt in befestigten Vororten, alle anderen (Chippies) in abgeriegelten Ghettos. Zoe, 14, lebt im schicken Vorort Silverdale. Bei einem verbotenen nächtlichen Abstecher in eine Chippie-Disco verliebt sie sich in den 15-jährigen Daz. Doch diese Liebe darf nicht sein.Abiturthemen: Utopia and Dystopia; Literary Visions of the Future; Science and Technology und The Individual in SocietyNutzen Sie für diese Lektüre unsere passende Handreichung für den Unterricht. Filtern Sie dazu nach der Produktart "Handreichung".Informationen zur Reihenausgabe:Lesen macht Spaß - umso mehr mit Lektüren, die Ihre Schüler/-innen auch allein zu Hause bewältigen können. Mit diesem Literaturangebot ist das problemlos möglich.Die ungekürzten Originaltexte eignen sich für die Jahrgangsstufen 10 bis 13 und enthalten Annotationen zu schwierigen Wörtern. Zu jedem Band gibt es eine Handreichung bzw. ein englischsprachiges Teacher's Manual mit Kopiervorlagen, Klausurvorschlägen und zum Teil Audio-CDs.Interpretationshilfen als Zusatzangebot für Schüler/-innenZu einigen Lektüren der Cornelsen Senior English Library gibt es ergänzende Interpretationshilfen mitwichtigen Informationen zum Werk,Kurzbiographien der Autorinnen und Autoren,Wortschatzhilfen und Auflistungen zentraler Zitate sowieeiner Musterklausur.

'There's something in the sky... something terrible!'On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid. Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon to hatch her first eggs, is the first to suspect the true nature of the planet. But will anyone listen to his theory? And, if they do, can they avert disaster? For if Orville is right, the world is doomed . . .

George is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. 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. And then they suspect someone they know of being a German spy...

'I'LL FLY,' JENNA WHISPERED TO HERSELF. 'I'LL FLY, WHATEVER NED SAYS. WHATEVER ANYBODY SAYS...'Jenna is thirteen - and has suddenly realized what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad's heroine, Amy Johnson... But Jenna's wish for wings has to be put on hold when something awful happens: Grandad's souvenir of his wartime service - a loaded gun - goes missing. And Jenna is almost certain that her brother Ned has taken it...

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 . . .

It was sick and hungry and a long, long way from home...Something is causing mysterious circles to appear in the cornfields of Cansfield Farm. And someone, or something, has obviously terrified Barry Cansfield, the farmer's bullying son. But when friends Ben and Midge sneak out to the farm to investigate, they discover a secret more terrifying than they could possible have imagined - a truly monstrous horror that simply must be stopped...

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 . . .

ROOM 13Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing.There is no room thirteen 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 twelve. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister.INSIDE THE WORMThe 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.

Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing . . . There is no room thirteen 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 l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister . . . A gripping page-turner from a master of spooky suspense, award-winning Robert Swindells. Don't read this under the covers at midnight!

This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so her parents have to return without her. She hides in a nearby derelict building and is helped by Ruby Tanya.

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...

Now you see them, now you don't...What would you do if you could become invisible? Creep around, unseen? Listen in to other people's 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. It's exciting, and it's fun. It can also be frightening... and dangerous. Especially when Rosie's dad becomes a suspect in a local crime and the gang go invisible to find the real crooks...

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?

If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost... That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.If so, what does she want? And why is she appearing now?Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.

12-årige Jimmy har længe boet på fattiggården, og han har hadet hvert øjeblik af opholdet i det triste hus. Han er derfor lykkelig, da han får lov at forlade fattighuset og får arbejde i en kulmine. Men Jimmy aner ikke, hvor hårdt og farligt det er at arbejde i minen. Gennem Jimmy og hans ven Tunnel-Joe følger vi den farlige og vigtige kamp for afskaffelse af børnearbejde i 1800-tallets England.Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

Brian på 15 år går op i fodbold. Noget af det vigtigste for ham er at støtte det lokale fodboldhold, Barfax Town, så de undgår nedrykning. Han beundrer klubbens hooligans, men hans kæreste, Debbie, gider ikke fodbold. Da hun begynder at gå sine egne veje, frygter Brian, at han skal miste hende, og pludselig ved han ikke, hvad der er vigtigst: Debbie eller fodbold?Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children.

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 is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it's Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...

Året er 2100, og skellet mellem rig og fattig i England er en gabende afgrund, der er umulig at krydse. Befolkningen er delt op i de rige 'kapier' og de fattige 'frittere', der bliver håbløst undertrykt. Zoe på 14 er kapier og har levet et liv i luksus skærmet fra samfundets ulykkelige side. Men da hun møder fritteren Daz på 15, ændrer alt sig. De forelsker sig i hinanden, og nu begynder det at gå op for Zoe, hvor uretfærdigt et samfund, hun lever i.Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

Da Links forældre bliver skilt, styrter hans verden i grus. Han beslutter sig for at stikke af hjemmefra og forsøge at klare sig selv. Men livet på gaden er hårdt, og der lurer farer overalt. Da han møder Shelter, bliver det hele pludselig alt for farligt. Shelter er en psykopatisk morder, der ikke lader nogen komme i vejen for sig.Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

Market Fulford er en søvnig engelsk landsby som hundredvis andre. Børnene Tan, Simon og Diane lever ganske almindelige liv, indtil byen en dag bliver angrebet af rumvæsner, der ligner små hvide mus. De voksne lader ikke til at vide, hvordan byen skal forsvares, så sammen tager de tre børn kampen op mod det ukendte.Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

En atomkrig har udryddet størstedelen af Jordens befolkning. Den nye verden er præget af forurening, strålesyge og død. Det smuldrende samfund styres med hård hånd af magtbegærlige mennesker, der ikke er bange for at bruge vold over for dem, der gør oprør. Danny er blandt de få overlevende, og han og hans venner har ikke tænkt sig at finde sig i den nye verdensorden.Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.

I ly af natten kommer en mystisk planet pludselig til syne himlen. Ingen videnskabsfolk kan forklare fremkomsten af den store kugle mellem Merkur og Venus, og endnu mærkeligere bliver det, da de opdager, at planetens indhold er flydende. Mens den 11-årige Orville i spænding venter på, at hans kæledues æg klækker, opdager han den nye planets sande og farlige natur. Men kan han få nogen til at lytte til hans teori? Og vil katastrofen overhovedet kunne undgås?Robert Swindells (f.1939) er en anerkendt engelsk ungdomsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår i mystiske og mytiske fantasy-universer, men han har også skrevet flere værker baseret på sin egen barndom. Swindells har vundet adskillige priser for sit forfatterskab herunder den anerkendte Children's Book Award.