Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice & nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new name, makes few friends & doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die -- of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, & moves on to the next target. When Boy Nobody was just eleven, he discovered his own parents had died of not-so-natural causes. He soon found himself under the control of The Program, a shadowy government organization that uses brainwashed kids as counter-espionage operatives. But somewhere, deep inside Boy Nobody, is somebody: the boy he once was, the boy who wants normal things (like a real home, his parents back), a boy who wants out. & he just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's next mission. ...

The story of Joe Jacoby, who worked in the early days of live TV, & went on to become a pioneering filmmaker. He has never revealed that his childhood was spent in foster homes & institutions. This book is useful for those concerned about neglected children, & for those searching for a story set within the world of television & film. ...

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Written off as 'fat' & 'useless' in his youth, Mark Cavendish is cycling's brightest star. His extraordinary quadruple stage-win at Tour proved him Britain's best ever cyclist. This title lets you follow him through the mayhem of the Tour de France. ...

The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests & stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How & why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, & until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored. Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies & hitherto unpublished diaries & letters, brings to life their stories of heroism & sacrifice. ...

Paul believes that the moon is not the moon, but is a great hole in the sky. It's one of many strange ideas that he's never told anyone (at school he was told that he had no ideas at all), until he meets Molly, his irrepressible neighbour, who begins to convince him that his theory might just change the world. ...

Merlin is Lucy's bright, beautiful son
- who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in lurch shortly after
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The compelling story of Walker Stacey -- a child who triumphed over his autistic tendencies with the dedicated help of his family When in 1996, Patricia Stacey gave birth to her second child, a baby boy, she quickly noticed an emptiness in his gaze -- a vacant quality that emphasized her sense that he was ill at ease in his own body. ...

Becket Rumsey is all at sea. His dad has run away with him & his brother Billy in the middle of the night. & they've left everything behind, including their almost-mum Pearl. Becket has no idea what's going on
- it's a mystery. So with the help of Billy & a snail called Brian, Becket sets out on a journey of discovery.
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Little Jack is born with a frozen heart & undergoes a life-saving operation. Dr Madeleine surgically implants a cuckoo-clock into his chest. Anger is too dangerous for his cuckoo-clock heart. When the beautiful young street-singer, Miss Acacia, appears
- Jack is in danger of more than just falling in love. He is putting his life on the line.
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