Books with author Gwen Grant

A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town.‘I told our Lucy I’m going to be a writer when I grow up and she said, ‘You should be a good one then. You tell enough lies.’Psst! We know you shouldn’t really read something labelled ‘private’ but this book is special. It’s written by young girl growing up in a mining town in 1948 who is practising to become a writer when she grows up…possibly. It’s hard work being a writer. There’s no privacy in a house with six kids and there’s no time, especially if you have to go to school and to dancing class (and wear frilly knickers) and Sunday school (and sing about being a sunbeam). You’re supposed to write about what you know, which means this book is about annoying sisters with no sense of humour and brothers who think they know everything, and bullies and chicken spots and being run over. Sometimes you can write about good things that happen, like going to the seaside or Christmas Eve, but mostly the stories end with being sent to bed early in disgrace. But when the writer is a tough, spiky and funny as this one, her adventures will always be worth reading.

A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town.‘I told our Lucy I’m going to be a writer when I grow up and she said, ‘You should be a good one then. You tell enough lies.’Psst! We know you shouldn’t really read something labelled ‘private’ but this book is special. It’s written by young girl growing up in a mining town in 1948 who is practising to become a writer when she grows up…possibly. It’s hard work being a writer. There’s no privacy in a house with six kids and there’s no time, especially if you have to go to school and to dancing class (and wear frilly knickers) and Sunday school (and sing about being a sunbeam). You’re supposed to write about what you know, which means this book is about annoying sisters with no sense of humour and brothers who think they know everything, and bullies and chicken spots and being run over. Sometimes you can write about good things that happen, like going to the seaside or Christmas Eve, but mostly the stories end with being sent to bed early in disgrace. But when the writer is a tough, spiky and funny as this one, her adventures will always be worth reading.

To Sam, the fox is the enemy – it steals his hens.To Roberta, it is a beautiful wild creature in need of protection. The mystery of a stole tiara brings the two children and the fox together in a strange sequence of events.With its country setting and fascinating glimpse into the ways of foxes, this is an appealing story by a popular author, with a most unusual theme.WHAT THE REVIEWS SAID:‘Young readers will be thrilled by the surprising twists to the plot.’…JUNIOR BOOKSHELF‘Atmosphere and beauty of the cold winter countryside are sensitively conveyed.’… TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

'Get that book out, Lily,' Mr Kendal says one morning. 'There's going to be new things happening round here. We're going to have a bit of culture. Well,' he goes, 'a football team is the next best thing. Two o'clock. Girls and all. What! Stick with me and the sky's the limit.'Lily, the high-spirited heroine of The Lily Pickle Band Book, is back. She has lots to tell us about: the new neighbourhood football team, Elvis Harris' hairstyle ('Hair is antique. Mushrooms is outre'), Asquith ('Free the pee-pulF) and his chains, Mad Mave and her boyfriend, Hoggy Morgan, and the rest of the gang. Meanwhile, Lily's dad, Mr Pickle, who disappeared when she was six, has come home and Lily's thinking of divorcing her mother ...A warm, extremely funny book by this popular and highly talented author.' ... Gwen Grant's tough, funny, uproarious northern world, with everything going at such a pace one can barely catch up.'The Times Educational Supplement

There is something very wrong with Polly’s new friend,Gemma, a look-alike Queen Nefertiti, and Polly, who is crazy about Egyptian history, is soon worried about her.What is it about the Egyptian wall-painting that is so scary? And why does Gemma hate it so much?Why is there a stone Nefertiti in Gemma’s room?Can either girl escape the aliens and the future mapped out for them?

When Danny loses his dog, Skip, on the site of the old Pit, he’s worried that Skip has gone down a rabbit hole and will die if he can’t find him.Luckily, a stranger, Jarrad Turner, a boy Danny doesn’t know, rescues Skip.Jarrad has two unusual pets of his own - a pony and a blackbird which cause Danny some anxiety. Jarrad insists he lives at Lock Cottage but Danny knows the Carters live there. Is there a mystery about Jarrad Turner? Does Danny’s Grandad know anything about him? THE LAST COAL BARGE is now a sunken wreck in the deep water of the Pit’s old coal loading bay.What has happened to Jarrad in the past?How does Danny’s Grandad know him?

Bonny was suddenly wide awake.With a catch of fear in her throat, she saw the same white shadow that had followed her in the graveyard begin to appear.“Who are you?” she cried. “What do you want?” The dazzling white figure smiled, a narrow brilliant evil smile.“You know what I’ve come for,” he said.“You can’t escape me.”When Bonny inadvertently finds the object which the stranger so desperately wants, she is drawn into a mysterious and terrifying struggle between the Dazzling Clown and the kindly Black Monk. Suddenly, the whole fate of Time and Eternity, good and evil, lies in the hands of Bonny Starr...