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This is the story of a strange and disturbing friendship seen through the eyes of Natalie as she gets to know Tulip Pierce, a delinquent girl most others go out of their way to avoid. Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She bunks off school, is rude to the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. But none of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip's behaviour exciting and dangerous. At first she doesn't care that other people are upset by Tulip's bizarre games but as the games become increasingly dangerous and sinister, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Way too far...Tulip becomes even more destructive and after a row with Natalie she commits a terrible crime. This is a compelling story in which Anne Fine explores the dark side of a friendship bordering on obsession, and sensitively depicts one girl's gradual decline into hostility and violence.

What's the hook? A jaw-dropping novel by popular children's novelist Anne Fine. What are the themes? Family and friendship raise PSHE issues such as reasons and the effects of bullying and peer pressure. Teaching points? Many excellent passages which are good models for pupils' writing.

Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife. Tilly's own expertise in the arts of deception and avoidance should be enough to make sure she's always one step ahead of Geoffrey's crumbling family. Time and again she finds herself staying with him, although she knows the relationship to be doomed. How can Tilly plan her permanent escape?

Kitty Killin is not only a good story-teller, but also the World's Great Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. Particularly when there's a danger they might turn

How stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top-floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine even then? Stolly's always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school's most imaginative liar (or fantasist, as he calls it). But now, he's lying in a hospital bed

Una mañana, la madre de Billy entra en su cuarto, le pone un vestido y le manda al colegio. Allí le ocurren cosas sorprendentes. Todo ha cambiado desde que lleva un vestido rosa. Billy no podía imaginar el trato que la gente dispensa a las niñas.

La Mel és una auteèntica rata de biblioteca. Sestima més estar sola, atrinxerada rere un llibre, que no pas relacionarse. Troba que la gent i tot el que lenvolta és molt avorrit. Però quna arriba la Imogen, ina nova companya de classe, descobreix, horroritzada, qie les històries de por que tant li agrada llegir shan fet realitat. I encara pitjor: que ella és lúnica que pot fer alguna cosa per aturarles.

Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged from her mother, in a vain attempt to maintain family ties. But neither Dilys, Norah nor Colin's colleagues know about his other - much more secret - life that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, a much adored three-year-old charmer, and a certain Mr Haksar's increasingly disquieting penchant for squabbling with his neighbours. What Colin doesn't know is that, thanks to a house insurance policy incorrectly filled in by his mother, his two lives are set to collide, and there is nothing he can do to stop them. With her customary wit and perception, subtle yet razor sharp in her powers of observation, Anne Fine has produced another tour de force. Her portrait of the complex dynamics of family relationships is as lucid as it is uncomfortable, ending with a climax that in its wry irony and sheer unexpectedness is truly shocking.

Suspense, drama e intriga. Mel es una auténtica rata de biblioteca; Absorta en su particular universo de ficción, la realidad le resulta sosa y aburrida. Con la llegada de Imogen, su nueva compañera de clase, descubrirá atemorizada cómo las historias leídas terminan por hacerse realidad y -lo que es peor- que ella es la única capaz de enfrentarse al horror que las arrastra.

Faltan once días para o grande experimento dos nenos de fariña. Os rapaces están listos para guindar á canle a patadas aos seus nenos de tres quilos de fariña, pero Simón non. O moneco de Simón está axudandolle a entende-la sua propia vida: porque o abandonou o seu pai e o forte que foi a sua nai por telo criado soa.

The Palmer sisters are close. They see each other often, they care for one another's children and houses and pets. They lend each other books, spare heaters and clothes for special occasions. Their phones ring in a ceaseless chat about in-laws and job plans and anxieties and triumphs. They never keep any secrets from each other - until now. Stella tells Bridie a rumour she's heard about Liddy's new boyfriend. Bridie is shocked, and discusses it with Heather. But should they tell Liddy, and risk ruining her new-found happiness? Bridie persuades her sisters that they should, but when Liddy reacts badly, the other two backslide and Bridie becomes the outcast, bereft of the sisterly support system on which she has based her whole life.

Rasputín, el gato de Eli, cuenta en forma de diario la que se arma en su casa cuando aparece con un pájaro muerto en la boca. Después de eso, todos creen que ha matado también al conejo de los vecinos y todavía se lía todo más. Pero Rasputín no puede entender a qué viene tanto jaleo.