Stig of the Dump

Author: Clive King
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504037685
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
A boy befriends a young caveman in this modern children’s classic of friendship and adventure. Barney isn’t supposed to go near the chalk pit. His grandmother and sister both told him the edge could give way and he could fall in—but what else is he supposed to do on a miserable gray day? It’s not long before Barney falls into the pit and bumps his head. But where he lands is more than an old garbage dump: It’s a home. There’s a little hut built out of discarded junk, and more surprisingly, there’s a boy, about Barney’s age, inside. He speaks in grunts instead of English, wears a rabbit-skin loincloth, has shaggy black hair, and might be named something that sounds like “Stig.” Barney befriends him immediately. Together, Barney and Stig go on all sorts of adventures, building a chimney for Stig’s hut, joining a foxhunt, stopping robbers, and catching a leopard escaped from the circus! Barney and Stig’s escapades have been delighting children for more than fifty years, while addressing important topics such as bullying, recycling, and language barriers. This timeless classic is sure to captivate readers young and old with its wit, imagination, and sense of adventure.

The Wild Way Home

Author: Sophie Kirtley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526616270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
'So good I read it twice' - Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks' War 'This thrilling time-slip adventure oozes magic and heart' - Bookseller EDITOR'S CHOICE When Charlie's longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie's world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town. There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It's become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or return to the present day. Or is there? What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost – their courage, their hope, their family and their way home. Fans of Piers Torday and Stig of the Dump will love this wild, wise and heartfelt debut adventure.

Scavengers

Author: Darren Simpson
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474965628
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A unique coming-of-age story with a jaw-dropping secret at its heart, Scavengers is an unforgettable, contemporary twist on The Jungle Book meets Stig of the Dump. "Extraordinary...a hugely compassionate and sophisticated novel about inclusion and exclusion." - The Observer "Stayed with me long after I finished it...a hard-to-put-down tale of tweenage derring-do." - The Guardian A Guardian/Observer Best Book of the Year Nominated for the Northern Ireland Book Award A School Librarian Best Book by a Debut Author Selected for the Summer Reading Challenge Selected for Empathy Lab's Read for Empathy Collection Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch. Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule of all is NEVER go beyond the wall. But Landfill longs to venture Outside. And some rules are made to be broken. Darren Simpson's exhilarating storytelling will make you think about the world differently in this urgent, compelling tale for our times.

Two Little Savages

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
An adventure story which includes much nature lore and woodcraft instruction.

Feelings

Author: Libby Walden
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1664340475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Explore the world of emotions with this stunning peek-through book. Lyrical text and enchanting illustrations bring each emotion to life to help children understand the universal and unique nature of feelings.

The Illustrated Mum

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307531783
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Covered from head to toe with one-of-a-kind tattoos, Marigold is the brightest, most beautiful mother in the world. At least, that’s what Dolphin thinks—she just wishes Marigold wouldn’t stay out quite so late or have mood spells every now and again. Dolphin’s older sister, Star, loves Marigold too, but she’s tired of looking after her. So when Star’s dad shows up out of the blue and offers to let the girls stay with him, Star jumps at the opportunity. But Dolphin can’t bear to leave Marigold alone. Now it’s just the two of them, and Dolphin is about to be in over her head. . . .

The Town That Went South

Author: Clive King
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781481444873
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This brilliantly original and humorous book from the author of Stig of the Dump tells of how the whole town of Ramsly became adrift in the Channel. It was Gargoyle, the Rectory cat, who first noticed that something very odd was happening in the town of Ramsly… The Railway Station was awash, and Gargoyle’s favorite hunting grounds outside the town seemed to somehow become submerged in swirling, choppy, salty water. Then, one by one, as the people of Ramsly woke up, it was discovered that their town had come adrift from the rest of England… they were all floating gently across the Channel into France! But their journey has only begun—Ramsly continues floating south, to Africa and the South Seas, to Australia and farther south to the coldest land in the world.

Erik the Red

Author: Soren Mosdal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993395147
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the year 982 Erik Torvaldsson, also called Erik the Red, left Iceland after a bloody neighbour feud. He went out to find a mysterious island to the north. He found it and called it Greenland, so that many people would follow him. Thanks to gifts and bribes, he ruled his colony unchallenged by Christian priests and kings, all the way to the beginning of the year 1000 A.D.

The Twenty-two Letters

Author: Clive King
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140302509
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
A game, invented by a young son of the family, plays an important part in this story of adventure set in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Adventure Stories

Author: Clive King
Publisher: Kingfisher
ISBN: 9780753457184
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
An illustrated collection includes adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors such as Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain. Reprint.