Published: 02/10/00
Paperback Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive,... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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Dancing at Lughnasaby Brian Friel | It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making... (more info)
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| | Philadelphia Here I Comeby Brian Friel | Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with... (more info)
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How Many Miles to Babylon?by Jennifer Johnston | As a child, Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared... (more info)
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| | The Blackwater Lightshipby Colm Toibin | It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have arrived, after years of... (more info)
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Charlotte's Webby E. B. White | This title presents the tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate... (more info)
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| | Goodnight Mister Tomby Michelle Magorian | Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish... (more info)
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Circle of Friendsby Maeve Binchy | Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both... (more info)
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| | Carrie's Warby Nina Bawden | Set in WW2, Carrie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales and billeted at the home of the bullying Mr Evans and his timid sister Lou.... (more info)
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Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank | The story of Anne Frank is one of the most poignant from the Second World War. This true story tells of how Anne Frank and her family hid in... (more info)
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| | Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cryby Mildred D Taylor | The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land... (more info)
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Under The Hawthorn Treeby Marita Conlon-Mckenna | When their father and mother go missing in the midst of Ireland's terrible famine, Eily, Michael, and Peggy set out on a journey that will... (more info)
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| | Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing... (more info)
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Ruairí San Ospidéalby Colmán Ó Raghallaigh | Seo chugainn arís iad! Eachtra spraoiúil eile le Ruairí agus a chairde. Tá Mairtín san ospidéal agus socraíonn Ruairí agus Séimí dul ar... (more info)
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| | Lambby Bernard Maclaverty | On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot... (more info)
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