An Angel for May

by Melvin Burgess

Published 5 November 1992
Tam is unhappy at home and often takes refuge in the ruins of Thowt It Farm. But then one day he is transported back to the Second World War. Alone and afraid, he makes friends with May, who has been rescued from a bombed-out house. She tries to persuade him to stay at the farm, but Tam is afraid of being trapped in the past forever.


The Spying Game

by Pat Moon

Published 21 October 1993
After his father is killed in a traffic accident, twelve-year-old Joe Harris becomes obsessed with punishing the man he thinks is responsible, but his plan gets out of control when he discovers that the man's son is a classmate.



The Odyssey

by Robin Lister

Published 1 August 1988
A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.