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This story is about two boys, two faiths, and one unholy war. When Adam's mother dies unconfessed, he pledges to save her soul with dust from the Holy Land. Employed as a dog-boy for the local knight, Adam grabs the chance to join the Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem. He burns with determination to strike down the infidel enemy.  Salim, a merchant's son, is leading an uneventful life in the port of Acre - until news arrives that a Crusader attack is imminent. To keep Salim safe, his father buys him an apprenticeship with an esteemed, travelling doctor. But Salim's employment leads him to the heart of Sultan Saladin's camp - and into battle against the barbaric and unholy invaders.

Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, this novel concerns what happens to Mamo when his mother dies and he is abandoned in the shanties of Addis Ababa, stolen by a child-trafficker and sold to a farmer.

Jake's real life is never safe. He's bullied and beaten by his mother's boyfriend. And after a vicious attack, his mother flees with him to Jake's old home, where Jake's grandmother refuses to acknowledge that he is her grandson. But a strong bond develops between the old woman and the boy.

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is based on the true story of Tara, a Kurdish girl whose family's involvement in the Kurdish resistance movement turns them into refugees in their own country. Arriving in England, Tara experiences the apparent anarchy of a London school.

Taken to work in a strange country, Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari...

Carly often finds herself gazing through the gates of Paradise End. She fantasizes about dicovering that she was swapped at birth, and is in fact the rightful owner of the beautiful, empty mansion. But then she meets Tia, the daughter of the new tenant, whose life has some cruel secrets.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this action-packed adventure follows one boy on his remarkable journey from powder monkey to war hero. In Edinburgh, a bankrupt father and his son, 12 year-old John Barr, run for their lives, having been falsely accused of murder. At the port, they are press-ganged by the recruiting officers of the Navy and quickly posted to different warships. On board HMS The Fearless, a 600 crew Man o' War, John begins a harsh new life as a powder monkey. The young members of the crew become friends, especially John and a quiet boy called Kit, with whom he shares this first taste of bloody sea-battle. But nothing aboard The Fearless is as it seems and John's satchel holds a valuable codebook that could help beat the French. John and Kit are quickly recruited into a daring plot to outwit a nest of French spies, and although the operation begins well, disaster soon strikes and they are abandoned behind enemy lines.