Rollercoasters
3 total works
Life in a small village at the start of WW2 consists of rationing, bomb damage and war losses. But when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interesting. And then two strangers turn up in the village - and they've heard of the treasure too! This gripping Second World War drama from classroom favourite, Robert Swindells, is packed with drama and suspense - perfect to engage KS3 students.
"What year is this?" When Charlie falls off a stepping stone in the woods, her whole world suddenly changes. She stumbles in the 21st century, and picks herself up in the middle of the 20th! There are no trainers, no mobile phones - and she's a pupil at a weird outdoor school where the classrooms don't even have walls. Somehow, Charlie has slipped through a nick of time. Can her new friend Jack help her find a way back - or will she be trapped in the past forever? Written in Robert Swindells' trademark snappy prose, this novel about education in 1950s Britain is sure to become a favourite with students and teachers alike.
Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing...There is no Room 13 in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to Room 12. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister...A gripping page-turner from the master of spooky suspense, award-winning Robert Swindells.