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.


I, Houdini

I, Houdini

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2011-04-13

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0307786803

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One family’s household has been in a state of disarray because of one small furry problem. Meet Houdini, an extraordinarily brilliant escapologist. No, not that Houdini. This one is a hamster. Once you meet him, you will understand that his owners just couldn’t name him anything else, for his name is quite fitting. He can escape from anything—a cage or the clutches of a mean cat. While on his escapades, he causes all kinds of trouble from chewing through wires to causing a flood. But Houdini thinks it’s all worth it, because he is desperate to explore the great Outdoors. But once he gets out, will he ever come back? Or will this be his final escape?


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.


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.


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.


The Secret of the Indian

The Secret of the Indian

Author: Lynne Reid Banks

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2010-05-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0307754464

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As his adventures with Little Bear continue, Omri travels from the French and Indian wars to the present, and then back to the Old West at the tum-of-the-century.


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.


Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks

Author: Sherri Liberman

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781404204645

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This charming biography spans the life andaccomplishments of this award-winning children's author. She was forced to leave England during World War II for the Canadian wilderness. Though her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, was written for adults, it is often read by teens. It made news upon publication because of its subject matter-the trauma of making the painful decision to give up an unborn child. The author of the Indian in the Cupboard series, Banks wrote more than fifty novels for children and young adults. Included are source notes, a biographical timeline, and an interview with the author.