Karam will have to pay the price if he wants his bully gone in this chilling thriller that's not for the faint-hearted ... A brilliantly accessible short story with a reading age of 6, designed to help severely struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 9+
Omar's family have found asylum, but a bully is present in Omar's tower block and his class, causing Omar to act on a defiant need to protect and assert his right to his new life. A repackaged edition of this classic middle-grade book about fighting prejudice.
This moving story of war, loss and cultural notions of cowardice is authored by Kathleen Fidler Award recipient Catherine MacPhail and "Thorfin The Nicest Viking" author David MacPhail.
Archie is always on time and never late, but today everything is going wrong - or is it?This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.
A poignant and moving story of a family caught up in the consequences of WWI, inspired by the true events of the UK's worst rail disaster at Quintinshill in 1915.
Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn't think he'll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can't resist taking it - but Ross gets more than he bargains for, and finds having the shirt comes at a dreadful price ...
Point Danger loomed above me. I tried not to think of all the stories: the ghostly sailors, the serial killer, the headless bodies. They didn't seem so funny now. I opened the door and went inside. It was as cold as the grave. The wind from the sea roared through the broken window. I could hear the tide rushing in...
Catherine MacPhail has written children's fiction, radio comedy and TV drama. Her first novel, RUN, ZAN, RUN, won the Kathleen Fidler Award and two Italian prizes, and FIGHTING BACK won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Catherine lives in Renfrewshire.