The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1446426270

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'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages' The Guardian Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves - a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham. She thinks she wants to hide from the world, but finds out that even at the bottom of the heap, friends and love can still be found, and self-respect is still worth fighting for.

The Backward Shadow
The Backward Shadow

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-02-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1446450619

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Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, and her friend Dorothy. The two women start up a shop in the village, and it is their changing fortunes and feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked which form the core of this funny and vivdly-told novel. The Backward Shadow is a worthy sequel to The L-Shaped Room

Tiger, Tiger
Tiger, Tiger

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0307548074

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Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill. Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet. But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life. Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.

Two Is Lonely
Two Is Lonely

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780099529088

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'Lynne Reid Banks jouns the growing group of responsible writers who are ambitious enough to present life as they really see it - and as we, in fact, know that it really is' Penelope MortimerJane's son David is eight years old and Jane is filled with doubts as he grows up without a father. Toby, her first love, has gone to Israel after the collapse of his marriage to Melissa. Then there is Andy, close at hand, a complex personality with his own problem son. In the background is Terry, David's father, an amorphous shadow hanging over them.This intense, compassionate novel completes the the trilogy which began with The L-Shaped Room.See also: The L-Shaped Room

The Indian in the Cupboard
The Indian in the Cupboard

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-07-07

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0307576248

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Adventure abounds when a toy comes to life in this classic novel! It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic warrior figure. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts his present in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeleton key that once belonged to his great-grandmother. Little does Omri know that by turning the key, he will transform his ordinary plastic toy into a real live man from an altogether different time and place! Omri and the tiny warrior called Little Bear could hardly be more different, yet soon the two forge a very special friendship. Will Omri be able to keep Little Bear without anyone finding out and taking his new friend away?

Room
Room

Author: Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-05-07

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 178682177X

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Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

BAD CAT, GOOD CAT
BAD CAT, GOOD CAT

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2011-07-07

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0007436556

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The stellar partnership who brought you Harry the Poisonous Centipede are back together. This is the funny story of a very naughty cat, from bestselling author Lynne Reid Banks and award winning illustrator Tony Ross

One More River
One More River

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903015636

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Lesley lives in Canada and thinks life is just great, she has got friends, she likes school and they are very comfortably off. But then her father makes a fateful decision, the whole family is going to emigrate to Israel and lead a more fully Jewish life. Lesley is horrified and very resistant. However, once she gets to her new country and a very different life, she begins to find it stimulating and enjoyable. A strange relationship with Palestinian boy Mustafa, who lives on the other side of the Jordan river, is a big part of the new Lesley. A very exciting book, set in the 1960s about life in a pioneering new country.

Children At the Gate
Children At the Gate

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0743211626

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Lynne Reid Banks' Children at the Gate is a literary masterpiece from the author of The L-Shaped Room. Perfect for fans of Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson and Deborah Levy. Children at the Gate is a heart-breaking story of love, loss, Jewish identity and prejudice in a country on the brink of war.

Harry the Poisonous Centipede
Harry the Poisonous Centipede

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0007364725

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Harry is a poisonous centipede but he's not very brave. Harry likes to eat things that wriggle and crackle, and things that are juicy and munchy. But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never eat - dangerous things like flying swoopers, belly wrigglers, furry biters and Hoo-mins.