In this provocative collection of short stories, Aidan Chambers explores moments of truth, when a character or an event suddenly reveals an often surprising meaning: a girl loses her humanity when she
Now I Know is all at once a compelling meditation on faith and religion?and the difference between the two?and an intense love story. When a body is found hanging from a crane in a scrapyard, Tom sets
In Dying to Know You, award-winning author Aidan Chambers has created an indelible portrait of a young man discovering his own voice in the world, and has constructed a love story that is as much abou
To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wa
The first two novels in Printz-winner Aidan Chambers’s Dance Sequence are at last available in a fresh format that will draw teens to these classics of YA literature.Literature is crap. Fiction is, an
From the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, a work of astonishing intimacy and depthUsing a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out h
Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so
Look out for 'Summer of 85', the movie based on Aidan Chambers's 1982 novel Dance on My Grave by groundbreaking French director Francois Ozon. 'The film is an opportunity to think about yourself, to t
In a contemporary love story, a teenage boy named Karl solicits help from girlfriend Fiorella's favorite author when she asks Karl to write her a letter in which he reveals his true self, so when the
“The masterpiece of one of young-adult literature’s greatest living writers.”—Booklist, starred reviewUsing a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out
An emotionally challenging and beautifully written drama that confronts the messiness of life head-on. Pete's a brilliant runner and dreams of athletic stardom - but fate intervenes. Pete is blindside
Presents two stories "Breaktime" and "Dance on My Grave". In "Breaktime", Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forev
Presents two stories "Now I Know" and "The Toll Bridge". In "Now I Know", Tom, an ambitious young police officer, thinks he's had a lucky break when he's put in charge of a bizarre murder investigatio
Jacob Todd is abroad on his own, visiting his grandfather’s grave at the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in Amsterdam. There, he meets elderly Geertrui, who tells an extraordinary story of love
Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the object of his affections, Firella, demands proof, and poses him a series of questions regarding his attitude to the many sides of love. But Karl is
