Penny Kendal

0. The Weekend Ghost - Paperback   £3.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9780862649357)

Sara is anxiously looking forward to meeting the chidren of her mother's new partner who are coming to spend the weekend in the country. Lauren the eldest is a bit prickly but the five children soon get involved in turning an old summerhouse into a den. All goes well until they hear screams from 7-year old Zoe, who claims to have seen the ghost of a boy in old fashioned clothes. The weekend is ruined as Zoe insists on going home. Two weeks later the boy ghost appears to all five children and seems to have an urgent message for them. When Sara finds a copy of TREASURE ISLAND in the attic inscribed to Tom on his 18th Birthday in 1940, she is convinced that this could be a clue to the ghost's identity. The children quiz oneo fo the elderly villagers and hear the tragic story of Tom. Who visited his grandparents every weekend in the War and was killed by a stray bomber. As the weeks go by the ghost gets more and more adgitated, is he trying to warn the children about something?
0. Christina's Face - Paperback   £4.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9780862647575)

‘You probably think you are the only person in the world with your face, unless you’re an identical twin, that is. Well I’m here to tell you that may not be the case...’

Nothing lately has gone the way Rachel wants. She is fed up with her own family problems but is unaware that she is about to become caught up in someone else’s.
When she arrives on holiday, she is disturbed to find she keeps being mistaken for a girl called Christina. Who is Christina and why has she gone missing? The uncanny likeness draws Rachel further and further into the mystery, with dramatic consequences...
0. Can You Hear Me? - Paperback   £4.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9781842706824)

An ordinary suburban house hides a dark secret in this chilling mystery novel. Leah hates the house and hates living in a mess while her dad does the much needed renovations. The house gives her the creeps and her fears are realised when the ghost of a boy appears in her bedroom. She discovers he lived in the house in the 1970s – but how did he die? And why does nobody seem to know he is dead? Leah’s attempts to unravel the truth lead her into unexpected danger...

This is a gripping tale in which Leah's story is interspersed with the ghost's own first person story, keeping the reader one step ahead.

0. Christina's Face - Paperback   £4.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9780862647575)

‘You probably think you are the only person in the world with your face, unless you’re an identical twin, that is. Well I’m here to tell you that may not be the case...’

Nothing lately has gone the way Rachel wants. She is fed up with her own family problems but is unaware that she is about to become caught up in someone else’s.
When she arrives on holiday, she is disturbed to find she keeps being mistaken for a girl called Christina. Who is Christina and why has she gone missing? The uncanny likeness draws Rachel further and further into the mystery, with dramatic consequences...

0. The Weekend Ghost - Paperback   £3.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9780862649357)

Sara is anxiously looking forward to meeting the chidren of her mother's new partner who are coming to spend the weekend in the country. Lauren the eldest is a bit prickly but the five children soon get involved in turning an old summerhouse into a den. All goes well until they hear screams from 7-year old Zoe, who claims to have seen the ghost of a boy in old fashioned clothes. The weekend is ruined as Zoe insists on going home. Two weeks later the boy ghost appears to all five children and seems to have an urgent message for them. When Sara finds a copy of TREASURE ISLAND in the attic inscribed to Tom on his 18th Birthday in 1940, she is convinced that this could be a clue to the ghost's identity. The children quiz oneo fo the elderly villagers and hear the tragic story of Tom. Who visited his grandparents every weekend in the War and was killed by a stray bomber. As the weeks go by the ghost gets more and more adgitated, is he trying to warn the children about something?

0. Broken - Paperback   £5.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9781842701744)

Rebecca and Jack have been sent to stay with their aunt Caroline: someone they have never met, and barely heard of. Mum has been sent away, to recover, and Rebecca and Jack are in a new town, living with a relation who would clearly prefer not to know them. When Caroline says one room is strictly out of bounds, she little realises that this is a temptation too great for Jack to resist. Of course he breaks one of the china figurines so carefully harboured there, and they must find a way to replace it, and somehow placate this oddly hostile relative.
0. Keeping Quiet - Paperback   £5.99
by Penny Kendal
(Books/All genres) (ISBN:9781842704554)

Thirteen year old Michael heard a couple having a blazing row down by the canal when he took a shortcut home. The next day he hears that a woman was killed there, and he realises that he had actually seen the murderer just before he struck. But he can't tell anybody! It would mean admitting that he had been somewhere that he really wasn't allowed to go. So he turns amateur detective, befriends the victim's young cousin, and scouts out new evidence. As the police concentrate on investigating the family, they will never find out about the true murderer unless Michael tells them about him. And Michael is being chased down to the canal by the murderer himself, before he has the courage to ring the police.

 
Awards & Reviews

Out of Shadows

by Jason Wallace

'Excellent. [Out of Shadows is] the
latest lacerating addition to the
boarding-school-as-living-hell genre
... read on if you have the courage.
The author attended a similar
establishment at the age of 12,
and gives every indication of knowing
exactly what he is writing about.'

Independent
 

Elmer's Special Day

by David McKee



'The first Elmer book seemed like a great and original one-off, McKee's extraordinary imagination and colourful art have between them maintained originality and delight over all these years: amazing.' Chris Brown, School Librarian

 

 
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