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It’s September 1939 and Britain has just entered the Second World War. But in the small town of Golfodd there are no bombs, no soldiers and no machine guns. For Tom, Mary, Gary and Dil the whole thing is a disappointment. They want excitement. But they aren’t looking for trouble, so when they start shadowing the mysterious new woman in town, they don’t expect it to lead them down to the bottom of the old, rotten mines of Golfodd. Then things get dark and dangerous...

The Outfit can't believe it when half the village turns out to protest against Farmer Denton's new wind turbine. After all, it's so much better than ugly pylons and nuclear power stations. So they decide to keep an eye on things, just in case. Then Jillo is kidnapped, and the kidnappers order Farmer Denton to dismantle the wind machine - or else. Can The Outfit save Jillo - and the 'green' wind machine?

A 12-year-old boy and his friends make a grisly discovery while rooting about in a disused railway tunnel. They are plunged into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel unfolds its sinister secret.

In this science-fiction thriller, from the award-winning author of Room 13 and Stone Cold, a mysterious planet appears in the sky. The world's scientists are baffled, but 11-year-old Orville has a nasty suspicion that he knows its secret.

A little girl's gone missing in Lenton. Just disappeared from right outside the school. And everyone's blaming Ragger Bill, the homeless man who lives in the school boiler room. But The Outfit are sure Ragger Bill's innocent - and if the only way to prove it is to find the missing girl, then that's what they'll have to do...

When Charlie falls off a stepping stone in the woods, her whole world suddenly changes. She stumbles in the 21st century, and picks herself up in the middle of the 20th. She's a pupil at a weird outdoor school. Can she get back to her own time?

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.

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.

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.