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Shortlisted for Bolton's Children's Book of the Year.
The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer is the quirky, gentle journey
of a boy stuck between looking back, and moving on. 'You'll be
sorry when I'm dead.' That's what Harry said to his sister, before
the incident with the lorry. And now he is just that - dead. And he
wishes more than anything that he hadn't said it. He wishes he
could say sorry. And say goodbye to everyone he left behind - his
mum, his dad, his best friend Pete. . . even Jelly Donkins, the
class bully. Now he's on the Other Side, waiting to move on to the
Great Blue Yonder. But he doesn't know how to get there - until he
meets Arthur, a small boy in a top hat who's been dead for years,
who helps him say goodbye. . .
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Tins (Hardcover)
Alex Shearer
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R511
Discovery Miles 5 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Literary Strengths: Alex Shearer's trademark fast pace and high
suspense A heady mixture of genres Multiple text forms Themes:
Forced child labour Friendship Evil adults! Perfect for teaching!
Explore genre Study the craft of suspense Analyse writing styles
that suit different purposes Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie
Children's Book Award 2007.
Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with an eccentric hobby: tin
collecting. He likes the lucky dip aspect of buying tins that have
their labels missing - after all, you never know what might be
inside. It's Fergal's idea of living dangerously. That is, until
the day he innocently opens up a tin to find . . . a bloodied human
finger. Everyone thinks it's a joke. But not Fergal - and when his
next tin discovery is a note with the word 'Help' scribbled on it,
he feels compelled to track down the factory responsible for these
mysterious and macabre products. Fergal might be hungry to play
detective, but has he opened a can of worms . . . ? This Dahl-esque
black comedy will have readers squirming on the edge of their
seats. Funny, frightening and totally gross - Alex Shearer taps
into the repulsive-but-appealing tradition of urban myths that are
perennial playground fodder.
Even when you have received a death sentence, you still have to
live... This is the story of Louis, who never quite fitted in, and
of his younger brother who always tagged along. Two brothers on one
final journey together, wading through the stuff that is thicker
than water. Tender-hearted, at times achingly funny, this is a
moving testimony to both the resilience of the human spirit and to
the price of strawberries.
A spooky, funny mystery with ghost-hunting, useless adults ... and
tea Thruppence and Tim don't know what they're getting themselves
into when they ring the bell at the house with dusty windows and a
tarnished name plate to enquire about the advertised 'Saturday
Person'. What could be so difficult about an unspecified Saturday
job? Well, had that name plate been properly cleaned, Thruppence
and Tim might not have been so keen to enter ... Pressured by the
stern Minister Beeston from the Department of Economies, the
Ministry of Ghosts has been given three months to prove the
existence or non-existence of ghosts, or else it will be shut down!
As it seems that children are particularly magnetic to ghosts and
supernatural beings, Thruppence and Tim are added to their
ghost-catching team. And although neither of them are scared by
talk of ghosts or monsters, they couldn't have imagined the truth
behind what they will find ...
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