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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'kevin brooks'... We found 7 matches.
Kevin Brooks
Being 16-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong. 'What the hell is that?' "That, Mr. Ryan, is the inside of this boy." 'Christ...It looks like some kind of plastic.' As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is. Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?
Puffin Books 2007 hbk £9.99 ISBN 978-0141381442
Kevin Brooks
Black Rabbit Summer Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer; long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. 'Listen, Pete ...you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground ...I thought we could all meet up ...You know, for old times' sake'. But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives.
Reading age 13 to 16, interest level 13 to 16
Puffin Books 2008 Paperback £6.99 ISBN 978-0141319117
Kevin Brooks
Candy It was the girl, of course. The girl from the station. The girl with the smile and the skin and the eyes. Joe is hooked from the moment he sees Candy. What is it that catches his eye? Is it her hair, her smile, or just the way she's standing? When they chat over coffee there's an instant attraction, but can love really be this sweet? Joe takes Candy deep into his soul. He thinks about her night and day, and even his music throbs to the sound of her name. But Candy also takes him somewhere else - to her world: a bitter place of drugs, violence and hopelessness. As the dark truth emerges, Joe must decide if love and hope - and Candy - are worth fighting for. And, find a way to escape the danger that loiters on every street corner.
Reading age 11 to 16, interest level 11 to 16
Chicken House 2005 hbk £12.99 ISBN 1-904442-41-2
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Kevin Brooks
Kissing the Rain In Moo Nelson's life it rains every day - a constant rain of spite and derision. His only refuge is the bridge, where he spends time thinking and dreaming. Until the night he witnesses a car chase and a murder - or does he? Moo must decide between truth and lies, loneliness and loyalty.
Reading age from 11, interest level from 11
Chicken House 2004 hbk £12.99 ISBN 1-904442-19-6
Kevin Brooks
Lucas Things start to happen when Lucas arrives on the island, Who is he? Where does he come from? What does he want? And why do other people hate him so much? Caitlin's life changes from the moment she see him. Lucas is the strangest, most beautiful, most unforgettable boy she has ever seen.
2003 Guardian Children's Book Awards (Shortlisted)
Reading age from 13, interest level from 13
Chicken House 2002 hbk £12.99 ISBN 1-903434-76-9
Kevin Brooks
Martyn Pig With his father lying dead at his feet, Martyn Pig has two choices - he can tell the police what happened, that it was an accident, or he can get rid of the body and pretend to get on with the rest of his life. He decides on the latter.
2002 Branford Boase Award
Reading age from 12, interest level from 13
Chicken House 2002 hbk £11.99 ISBN 1-903434-51-3
Chicken House 2003 pbk £5.99 ISBN 1-903434-99-8
Kevin Brooks
The Road of the Dead Late one night, two brothers learn that their sister has died in the worst imaginable way. She's found, strangled, in a desolate place hundreds of miles from their East London home. Ruben and Cole Ford set out to find their own answers. Ruben is the smarter of the two, with a gift for getting into other people's hearts and feeling what they feel; Cole may be older, but he's a dark-eyed devil's angel who doesn't care if he lives or dies. Together they retrace their sister's final journey to a remote Dartmoor village with a dark, menacing core. This is a heart-stopping, heart-breaking thriller about three ill-fated siblings and the love, and blood, that runs between them.
Reading age 12 to 16, interest level 12 to 16
Chicken House Ltd 2006 pbk £8.99 ISBN 1-904442-75-7
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