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Twelve Minutes to Midnight

March 1, 2012 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…arrive when Penny receives word of weird happenings at Bedlam, the notorious mental asylum. With Monty she visits the asylum and sees a heavily veiled woman leaving, and finds the…

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We Played With Fire

March 13, 2021 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…the gold seekers heading out to California. A truly exciting work of historical fiction, We Played With Fire is also a genuinely chilling Gothic read. As with Catherine’s debut, Troublemakers,…

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Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature

July 26, 2021 /in Information Picture Book 8-10 Junior/Middle

…for young enthusiasts who wish to find out more about wildlife or conservation. Reminder to look after nature we are all guardians as well as seekers and ‘We should only…

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Seeker

March 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

Quin cannot wait for the final test that will see her, and her two closest friends Shinobu and John, inducted as Seekers; that secret group with the ability to move…

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Struck

May 1, 2012 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…lightning and channel it away from destruction. She is sought by two warring factions, the Seekers and The Followers – the former led by Rance Ridley Prophet, the self-styled latter-day…

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Nell and the Cave Bear: The Journey Home

May 19, 2023 /in Fiction 5-8 Infant/Junior

…lovely shade of green (to match the Woodland Clan theme, perhaps?) add to the overall fun of the story, which will be enjoyed by adventure seekers and animal lovers alike….

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Spokes: Stories from the Romani World

March 1, 2009 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…‘the Traveller world’ and, in particular, of some of those who have been forced to seek asylum – many in Great Britain – following political upheavals in their home territories…

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Mr Sparks

November 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…in an asylum. His future seems bleak, until an unusual guest arrives. Otto Schilling is a ventriloquist, a frail and elderly man whose luggage attests to his long travelling life….

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These Shallow Graves

September 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…his inspiration, a bleak lunatic asylum where the sane might be incarcerated by their enemies, and a warren of grimy alleyways peopled by scar-faced men with knives. There is even…

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Only Eva

May 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…are living in a detention centre while seeking asylum. Eva tackles them as she always does, positively, with good-humour and boundless energy. Her enthusiasm is contagious and, with the help…

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon

January 1, 2014 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…an asylum-seeking girl on a magical adventure is a brilliantly inventive, bittersweet modern romance, suitable for older readers. In many ways the unnamed heroine’s quest for her bear/prince lover is…

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Dead Romantic

January 1, 2013 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…crazed scientist who murdered people for his experiments, before being locked up in a mental asylum. After Zoe demonstrates in a dissection class that she can bring dead hamsters back…

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Whisper My Name

March 1, 2011 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

Jane Eagland’s earlier book for young adults, Wildthorn, saw its young heroine confined to a Victorian asylum as the penalty for difference from contemporary norms. Whisper My Name returns to…

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Rowan the Strange

May 1, 2009 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…of 13-year-old Rowan Scrivener, a sufferer from schizophrenia, from his London family to an institution in Kent, described by its director as ‘a private asylum for the mentally deranged’, where…

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Hands Up!

July 1, 2003 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…As the boy hero and storyteller Jason Lurcher rapidly discovers, maybe the puppets are controlling the asylum and maybe, just maybe, they themselves behave at the behest of the greatest…

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Gervelie’s Journey

July 4, 2008 /in Non Fiction 8-10 Junior/Middle

…Ivory Coast. When war breaks out there, she and her father flee to Europe. The fear and uncertainty of life as an asylum seeker are evident in the girl’s words,…

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Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses

July 1, 2020 /in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant Adventure

…can you think of to be kind?’ encouraging discussion of simple ways to extend a hand of friendship and help to those seeking asylum. Key facts are included in the…

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A History Of My Weird

July 23, 2024 /in 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…problems. Meanwhile, Denham, the local, former asylum, becomes the focus of their shared interest as they wonder about the lives of the outsiders who were interned there in the past….

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