Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Night Sky Dragons Night Sky Dragons Mal Peet,Elspeth Graham Yazul, a young boy, spends most of his time with his grandfather in his workshop, making kites. More than anything, Yazul wants the approval of his father, the lord of the han, but this love of kite-… OL19338427W
Beck Beck Meg Rosoff,Mal Peet Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fiftee… OL20057429W
Cloud Tea Monkeys Cloud Tea Monkeys Mal Peet,Elspeth Graham When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket fill… OL5848995W
Keeper Keeper Mal Peet An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the … OL5849010W
Tamar Tamar Mal Peet When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters … OL5849012W