Books with author Robert Swindells

Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key - is Jack more than he seems?

Every night Kirsty wakes up screaming. Every night she has the same terrible nightmare—of falling downstairs. But does she fall? Or is she pushed? Then Kirsty discovers that her grandma died falling down stairs and she begins to wonder. Is the dream hinting at a dark secret in her family? She has to know the truth. But tracking a murderer is a dangerous game, and as she delves into the past, Kirsty uncovers a secret more terrible than anything she can imagine.

It is the height of World War II. Britain is being ravaged by bombs and most young men are off fighting, and Gordon wishes he was too. Maybe then he wouldn't get bullied for having a cowardly family: Gordon's dad didn't serve in World War I, and now his older brother Raymond isn't serving in World War II—he's gone missing. When Gordon finds a revolver hidden in his house, he tracks Raymond down but ends up involved in more than he'd bargined for. Raymond enlists Gordon's help to deliver and collect some "packages." But is the work actually for the government? And will it have terrible consequences?

It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it's Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...

Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens—she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her cell phone doesn't work, and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key—is Jack more than he seems?

Life in a small village is boring now that the war is over, but when a group of children hear of some treasure kept locked in the village, things start to look a bit more interestingIt's September 1939, and Britain has just entered World War II, but in the small town of Golfodd there are no bombs, no soldiers, and no machine guns. For Tom, Mary, Gary, and Dil, the whole thing is a disappointment. They want excitement, but they aren't looking for trouble, so when they start shadowing the mysterious new woman in town, they don't expect it to lead them down to the bottom of the old, rotten mines of Golfodd. That's when things get dark and dangerous.

Another tense, gripping wartime story from award-winning author Robert SwindellsThe war has just ended in the tiny village of Coney Cley, and Josh and his gang are desperate for some excitement. When they head for the eerie, abandoned Shadows Lane to explore a deserted house, they find more than they bargained for—a human tooth. Then a creepy, skeletal face appears at a dark window. Believing there's a skeleton haunting Shadows Lane, the children are shocked to learn the truth about "Boney"—he's an escaped prisoner of war. But someone else is also hiding in the village, someone much more dangerous. Tense and chilling, this is another fantastically gripping tale from the author of Abomination and In the Nick of Time.