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The following are a list of reading club novels for the younger readers,, averaging age 8 to 14.
These are all in excellent condition or new and selling at below half the price paid
Postage / collection to be arranged
A brief summary is given with the name of the novel and age rating

1. All Fall Down ( New) Reading Age 9-11
Isabel and her family have nowhere to run from a disease that has killed half of Europe. When the world she knows and loves ends forever, her only weapon is courage.

The Black Death of 1349 was the deadliest plague in human history. All Fall Down is a powerful and inspiring story of survival in the face of real life horror.

2. The Thief Lord Reading Age 10+ (Movie Made)
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.

Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat to the boys' new-found freedom is something from a forgotten past – a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.

3. Haunted Stories Reading Age 9-14
A haunting selection...Drawing on the wealth of literature published in this ever-popular genre, award-winning author Aidan Chambers has brought together all his favourite ghost stories in one spine- tingling collection. Ages 9-14.

The lonesome place / August Derleth
Such a sweet little girl / Lance Salway
A ghost story / Mark Twain
Footsteps invisible / Robert Arthur
The gnomon / Jan Mark
The haunted and the haunters (abridged) / Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If she bends, she breaks / John Gordon
Room 18 / Aidan Chambers
Brownie / R. Chetwynd-Hayes
The lamp / Agatha Christie
The haunting of Chas McGill / Robert Westall
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The death of Paggy Morrissey / William Trevor
Christmas in the rectory / Catherine Storr
The Canterville ghost (abridged) / Oscar Wilde

All books are 5 euros
Post and/or collection to be arranged