New Releases by Jim Carrington

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction, playscripts and non-fiction at Pathfinders Strand including River Rescue, Leila''s Game, Connections and The Mountain of Fire. Pathfinders titles are for learners whose reading is accurate, fast and fluent. They will need to decode and read unfamiliar words. Stories and subject matter typically require readers to understand character emotions and motives.

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction and non-fiction at Explorers Strand including Skyscrapers, Dolphins in the Wild, A Tale of Two Sinbads and Journey to Callisto. Books in the Explorers Strand are for learners who are reading a wide range of fiction and non-fiction with a good degree of accuracy and reasonable reading pace. Readers at this Strand will be able to discuss their preferences and read critically, considering the author''s effectiveness.

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction, non-fiction and poetry at Wayfarers Strand including You and Me, Timbuktu, Who is the Greatest? and The Digger. Books in the Wayfarers Strand are for learners who can read a range of texts accurately and fluently. They require learners to read beyond what is on the page, inferring characters'' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. There is more emphasis on understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. Sang Kancil keeps eating the farmer''s fruit and vegetables. Can the farmer find a way to stop him or will Sang Kancil outwit him? Gold Band books are for children approaching independence in reading. Longer texts give the opportunity for more sustained reading while more complex language structures are used. Illustrations now offer only general support to the story. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. The river is full of hungry crocodiles. Can Sang Kancil find a way to cross? Orange Band stories are longer than previous bands, featuring more events and greater complexity. Illustrations support only one aspect of the story. Sentence structures become more complex. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Endorsed for reading by Cambridge Assessment International Education, Cambridge Reading Adventures is our international primary reading scheme.

Boy 23 isn''t in My Place any more. He can''t see The Screen, he can''t hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone. One dark night, Boy 23 is thrown in the back of the van and driven out of My Place – the only home he has ever known. He is abandoned in a forest with a rucksack containing the bare essentials for survival. Before the van drives away, a voice tells him he must run as far as he can. His life depends on it. Boy 23 has never known another human. Boy 23 has never even been outside. So who is he? Why do people want to kill him? And more to the point, who is the voice that wants to save him? A hugely fast-paced dystopian page-turner which by the end will leave you in a state of shock. For fans of Chaos Walking and Charlie Brooker''s Black Mirror.

Johnny and his friends have finished school for the summer. One sweltering day, on their way back from a water fight at the park, they spot an old lady who has wound them up by bursting their football. They make a bad decision. The boys pedal up to the old lady''s parked car and commit a drive-by soaking, before pedalling away as quickly as they can. Revenge isn''t all that''s on Johnny''s mind, however, as he spots an impossibly cool, black-clad, pale-skinned girl on the bus. He can''t stop thinking about her, but has she even registered his existence? When Johnny discovers that the old lady suffered a heart attack after the drive-by and subsequently died, he is totally guilt-stricken. And when Johnny wakes up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, feeling a presence in his room, he believes that he''s being haunted and the strain starts to show . . . An incredibly dramatic, pacy novel about getting in over your head, guilt and facing up to your decisions. Jim Carrington is fast establishing himself as an accomplished writer for teens. New and existing fans alike will devour his latest offering.

Joe and Ash are best friends. Ash is the leader, Joe the one who follows. Then one night after a party, Joe and Ash come a across a holdall, seemingly abandoned by the side of the road. They open it up . . . and find £20,000 in cash. Of course they''re going to hand it straight to the police. Aren''t they? Or is all that money just a bit too tempting? And that is precisely when the trouble starts . . . Jim Carrington has already established himself as a fine writer for teens with his debut novel, Inside My Head. With In the Bag, he shows how horribly easy it is for two teenage boys to make a car crash of their lives, through an unlucky combination of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and making a handful of wrong decisions.

The cleverly constructed narrative consists of three points of view: of Gary, constantly victimised by the school bully in a nasty, name-calling and vindictive way; the bully''s friend, David and a new girl to the school, Zoë. All viewpoints are revealing. Gary reveals the painful and often unsuccessful attempts by a young man to control his anger under great provocation - and his inability to communicate. David is someone who is uncomfortable with the bullying but doesn''t dare to do anything about it - until the end. Zoë is a young woman who can see Gary through different eyes and is independent, freethinking and brave. Also featured are rampaging tractors, shotguns and cheese puffs.