Granny Was a Buffer Girl

Granny Was a Buffer Girl

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher:

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781846470240

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Eighteen-year-old Jess is leaving for college--and she'd like to leave her family behind. But when the family gathers to bid Jess farewell, they begin to tell stories. And each story binds them closer to Jess's heart. A novel which celebrates the continuity of life and the importance of family, sure to appeal to a wide audience.


Dear Nobody

Dear Nobody

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1994-05-24

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0688127649

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Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.


Street Child

Street Child

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0007311257

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Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.


Holly Starcross

Holly Starcross

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: Andersen Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842709306

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Fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross knows two lives: six years with Dad and Mum; then eight years with a divorced family. Maybe happiness is in the stars, but first Holly must make some wrenching choices. This is thoughtful and introspective coming-of-age fiction that hits home and heart.


Daughter of the Sea

Daughter of the Sea

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-10-03

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1849397996

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The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.


Tough Luck

Tough Luck

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 9780003300574

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Joe Beads gets on well with his class 3B. However, he is having a problem getting through to Twagger, a sullen absentee. He's also worried about Nasim, just arrived from Pakistan feeling very friendless and very foreign. It's going to be a tricky year.


Tilly Mint Tales

Tilly Mint Tales

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1446405788

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When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her. There are two special things about Mrs Hardcastle. The first thing is that she's always dropping off to sleep (she snores too, sometimes). The second special thing is that whenever she goes to sleep, something magic always seems to happen to Tilly Mint! Carnegie Medal winner Berlie Doherty's enchanting Tilly Mint tales are at last available in one complete collection with brand-new illustrations from Tony Ross.


Children of Winter

Children of Winter

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher:

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781915235787

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A new edition of the much loved classic.Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother's house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.Written by a master storyteller Children of Winter recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666.Cover Art by Tamsin Rosewell.


Treason

Treason

Author: Berlie Doherty

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1849398968

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Adventure, friendship, treason and betrayal. A dazzling historical novel from the award-winning Berlie Doherty. Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favourite, Will gains many enemies in Court. His enemies convince the King that Will's father has committed treason and he is thrown into Newgate Prison. Will flees Hampton Court and goes into hiding in the back streets of London. Lost and in mortal danger, he is rescued by a poor boy, Nick Drew. Together they must brave imprisonment and death as they embark on a great adventure to set Will's father free. 'Doherty paints a very vivid picture... almost Shardlake for young readers' Independent on Sunday