New Releases by Robert Westall

It''s 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in town, but desperately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas and his friends plan their own war effort in their newly built bunker. Friendships are forged and loyalties tested, in the adventure of a lifetime. Robert Westall''s "The Machine Gunners" has been read, studied - and loved - by successive generations of younger readers. It won the Carnegie Medal and was voted one of the most important children''s novels of the past seventy years. This thrilling stage adaptation comes from the award-winning playwright Ali Taylor, and premiered at the Polka Theatre, London. It provides rich opportunities for discussion in the classroom, and for staging by schools, youth theatres and amateur companies.

Esta una novela basada en un muchacho que se preocvupa de verdad por lo que le sucede a sus semejantes. Talvez tenga una sensibilidad por una extraña percepción física. Sus padres y su hermano mayor se han acostumbrado poco a poco a sus obseciones. Pero cuando estalla la guerra del Golfo les sorprende con un extraño comportamiento que informa por completo sus vidas. Es una novela que cambia la intriga y la acción con una profunda reflexión sobre lo absurdo de la guerra.

Growing up in a northern English town after World War II, seventeen-year-old Robert, clever student and formidable rugby player, finds himself drawn into a passionate affair with a young teacher at his school.

This volume brings together two stories on a Christmas theme, both set in Tyneside in the 1930s. In The Christmas Ghost, a boy receives a desperate warning from a ghost. In The Christmas Cat, a visit to a vicarage is miserable, until the arrival of an apple-pie thief and a cat.

Stolen from a temple in Egypt, a mother cat finds her life changed forever when she shares the humble stable where the Christ Child is born.

The author of Blitzcat presents a collection of five scary stories of things that go bump in the night.

Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother''s struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.

Two creatures from outer space join up with two cats to explore animal rights and environmental issues in this sardonic fable.

Een 12-jarige Engelse jongen overleeft in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een bombardement. Hij ontvlucht de stad en trekt maandenlang, in gezelschap van een hond, langs het strand. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

After Yaxley disappears, the inhabitants of an English village fear that his ugly old cat will uncover the truth about a secret they are hiding.