M books
6 total works
After Yaxley disappears, the inhabitants of an English village fear that his ugly old cat will uncover the truth about the secret they are hiding.
'Some bright kid's got a gun and 2000 rounds of live ammo. And that gun's no peashooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile.' Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth, and he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods - its shiny, black machine-gun still intact - he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous and unexpected results..."...not just the best book so far written for children about the Second World War, but also a metaphor for now." - Aidan Chambers, "Times Literary Supplement".
During World War II a black cat journeys all across war-ravaged England in an effort to track down her beloved master.
Promise me that if I ever get lost, you'll come and find me? Promise. Valerie holds Bob to his promise, beckoning him to follow her--even after she dies. Westall is the award-winning author of Blitzcat, Ghost Abbey, and Yaxley's Cat, which all received rave reviews.
"M Books" is a series of contemporary literature for children and teenagers. The books can be used as shared texts or as individual readers and are graded into five age ranges - from 7 to 14 plus - for teacher guidance. In this story Anne goes to stay in a lonely cottage by the sea, next door to the Watch House. She soon discovers that there is someone or something supernatural in the Watch House, and that she has been chosen to give it the help it desperately needs.