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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Matt Whyman'... We found 6 matches.
Matt Whyman
Boy Kills Man Shorty and Alberto are more than best friends. They're blood brothers, both about to turn thirteen, running wild on the streets of Medellin, Colombia. In this troubled South American city, guns speak louder than words. A killing can be bought for next to nothing here, with kids hired to do the dirty work. So when Alberto comes to the attention of a gangland boss, Shorty is left to kick at the dirt and reflect on his lot in life.
Reading age 13 to 16, interest level 13 to 16
Hodder Children's Books 2004 hbk £10.99 ISBN 0-340-88194-1
Matt Whyman
Columbia Road Cash is hard to come by in Columbia Road, where Cisco, her uptight brother and her downbeat boyfriend struggle to make ends meet. Cisco's brother is realising that being a teen agony uncle has a shelf life and her man of the moment is lost to an online game with a million bucks at stake. That's when their landlord, a property impresario called Cartier, makes an offer they can't refuse: transform the place into a virtual show home, with a cam in every room and the three can stay on rent free. Except Cartier has a hidden agenda, and privacy comes at a price.
Flame 2002 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-340-76905-X
Matt Whyman
Inside the Cage Under suspicion for a virtual break-in at Fort Knox, 17-year-old Carl Hobbes finds himself on a rendition flight for questioning by the US military. Taken to an isolated camp in the Arctic wilderness, dedicated to holding terrorists-for-hire, the boy finds all assurances about his safety blow away when one notorious detainee stages an uprising. Cut off from civilisation, and with overnight temperatures plummeting, Hobbes must decide whether his chances of survival are greater inside the cage - or out.
Simon & Schuster Childrens Books 2007 pbk £6.99 ISBN 978-1416926696
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D26D11b13a1608CWgY4203A26
Matt Whyman
So Below In a bid to escape from a mysterious pursuer, Yoshi takes refuge below the streets of London - and finds a world away from our own. Here, in this sprawling, multi-layered network of tunnels, panic rooms, vaults, catacombs and lost waterways, he discovers his own vital part in a mission to tap into ancient forces underpinning the capital.
Reading age 11 to 15, interest level 11 to 15
Simon & Schuster 2005 pbk £5.99 ISBN 0-689-87264-X
Matt Whyman
Superhuman Like his mates, Jude knows that at any time he'll have good reason to shave, his voice will drop a couple of notches and something very big will be occurring in his boxers. But Jude is more anxious than most, for, though his growing pains could well be down to puberty, a few startling developments seem to prove his old man right - that Jude really is the son of a superhero. But his dad has disappeared, leaving his mum to cope alone with him and his kid brother, Sam, and no hope of confirming. Jude escapes by spending his time with 'the collective' - skateboarders and graffiti taggers who hang out on his estate: his best mate Moby, lust object Kat, Crash, Evans, Kim and Spinner. The soundtrack to their lives is the music they hear from the pirate radio station on top of their block. So when their hang-out is threatened by developers, Jude prays his powers really ARE out of the ordinary...
Reading age 11 to 14, interest level 11 to 14
Hodder Children's Books 2003 pbk £5.99 ISBN 0-340-86607-1
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D26D11b13a1608CWgY4203A26
Matt Whyman
The Wild A story of the bond between two brothers, torn apart by mental illness and destitution. Alexi and his little brother Misha have grown up in the shadow of the nuclear arms race. Living in a bleak and increasingly destitute town next to the old Aral Sea in Kazahkstan, the boys scavenge for nuclear debris, from which they can make a living on the black market. But when Misha starts to suffer seizures of a sinister kind, the doctors tell Alexi that his only hope of saving Misha's life is to take him to the nearest city where he can receive proper treatment. Arriving in Moscow - a city that held so much hope from a distance - they are hit by plummeting temperatures and ruthless bureaucracy. The medics there can't help Misha without the right papers and money, and the brothers are left to live rough behind a deserted sports stadium where Misha has no choice but to watch his brother die.
Hodder Children's Books 2005 pbk £5.99 ISBN 978-0340884539
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