Robert Swindells Books In Order

Outfit Books In Order

  1. The Secret of the Weeping Woods (1993)
  2. We Didn’t Mean To! (1993)
  3. Kidnap at Denton Farm (1994)
  4. The Ghosts Of Givenham Keep (1995)
  5. The Peril in the Mist (1997)
  6. The Strange Tale of Ragger Bill (1998)

Shakespeare Retold Books In Order

  1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009)
  2. Henry V (2010)

Novels

  1. When Darkness Comes (1973)
  2. A Candle in the Night (1974)
  3. Voyage to Valhalla (1977)
  4. The Ice Palace (1977)
  5. Ghost Ship to Ganymede (1980)
  6. World-Eater (1983)
  7. The Weather Clerk (1983)
  8. Brother in the Land (1984)
  9. The Ghost Messengers (1985)
  10. The Thousand Eyes of Night (1986)
  11. Staying Up (1986)
  12. A Candle in the Dark (1987)
  13. A Serpent’s Tooth (1988)
  14. The Postbox Mystery (1988)
  15. Follow a Shadow (1989)
  16. Room 13 (1990)
  17. Dracula’s Castle (1990)
  18. Daz 4 Zoe (1990)
  19. Hydra (1991)
  20. Rolf and Rosie (1992)
  21. You Can’t Say I’m Crazy (1992)
  22. Go-ahead Gang (1992)
  23. Fallout (1992)
  24. Inside the Worm (1993)
  25. The Siege of Frimly Prim (1993)
  26. Stone Cold (1993)
  27. Timesnatch (1994)
  28. Unbeliever (1995)
  29. Jacqueline Hyde (1996)
  30. The Last Bus (1996)
  31. Hurricane Summer (1997)
  32. Nightmare Stairs (1997)
  33. Smash! (1997)
  34. Abomination (1998)
  35. Invisible! (1999)
  36. Dosh (1999)
  37. Doodlebug Alley (2000)
  38. A Wish for Wings (2001)
  39. Wrecked (2001)
  40. Blitzed (2002)
  41. No Angels (2003)
  42. Roger’s War (2004)
  43. Ruby Tanya (2004)
  44. Branded (2005)
  45. Snapshot (2005)
  46. Snakebite (2006)
  47. In the Nick of Time (2007)
  48. The Shade of Hettie Daynes (2008)
  49. Knife-Edge (2008)
  50. Shrapnel (2009)
  51. The First Hunter (2009)
  52. Dan’s War (2010)
  53. Blackout (2011)
  54. A Skull in Shadows Lane (2012)

Omnibus

  1. Room 13 / Inside the Worm (2007)

Collections

  1. The Moonpath (1979)
  2. Wheaton Book of Science Fiction Stories (1981)
  3. Haunting Christmas Tales (1991)
  4. Simply the Best (1996)
  5. Best of Friends (1997)
  6. The Orchard Book of Vikings (1999)
  7. Out of This World (2000)
  8. Egyptian Gods and Pharaohs (2001)
  9. We’re Having a Party! (2013)

Picture Books

  1. Dragons Live for Ever (1978)
  2. The Very Special Baby (1978)
  3. Norah’s Shark (1979)
  4. Norah’s Ark (1979)
  5. Norah and the Whale (1981)
  6. Norah to the Rescue (1981)
  7. Night School (1983)
  8. Mavis Davis (1988)
  9. Tim Kipper (1990)
  10. Sam and Sue and Lavatory Lou (1993)
  11. The Muckitups (1995)

Chapter Books

  1. Burnout (2007)
  2. Just a Bit of Fun (2009)
  3. Trick or Treat (2012)
  4. The Deep End (2013)

Non fiction

  1. The Orchard Book of Egyptian Gods and Pharoahs (2000)

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Robert Swindells Books Overview

The Secret of the Weeping Woods

As the chilling cries grew louder, they fled. They burst sobbing from the haunted thicket and ran on till the cries of the phantom infants faded and they could run no more. Something’s going on in Weeping Wood. There’s an awful sound coming from deep in the woods, like ghostly babies crying. Time for The Outfit to investigate. But they’d better watch out. Because they’re not the only people interested in Weeping Wood…
The Outfit series launches with four titles in July: The Secret of Weeping Wood, We Didn’t Mean To, Honest, Kidnap at Denton Farm, and The Ghosts of Givenham Keep.

The Ghosts Of Givenham Keep

Can The Outfit find out what’s happening behind the steel gates of haunted Givenham Keep?

The Peril in the Mist

The Outfit have a new project raising money for a sick girl. A sponsored walk across the Yorkshire moors seems the ideal solution. Then The Outfit get separated from the main party, and find themselves alone in the mist on the moors. Could this be a danger even The Outfit can’t beat?

The Strange Tale of Ragger Bill

A little girl’s disappeared from right outside the school. Everyone’s blaming Ragger Bill, the ragged man who lives in the school boiler room. But The Outfit are sure Ragger Bill’s innocent and if the only way to prove it is to find the missing girl, then that’s what they’ll have to do.

When Darkness Comes

Jealousy divides a primitive tribe. When the final split occurs, the two new communities find they are two small to be self sufficient. However, it is the children who arrange a reconciliation. The author won the Federation’s Children’s Book Award for ‘Brother in the Land’ and ‘Room 13’.

Brother in the Land

When a nuclear bomb wrecks his hometown and rips his family apart, 15-year-old Danny has to learn the art of survival…
and fast. Under constant threat from radiation sickness, starvation, and the men who have seized power, Danny struggles to protect himself and his brother. Then he joins the resistance and the real fight begins…
New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.

Room 13

Fliss has a nightmare about Room 13 on the night before her school trip. When she arrives at Whitby, the hotel looks familiar. Fliss realises that it is the house in her dream, except there is no Room 13. But at the stroke of midnight changes take place and Fliss and her friends are drawn into danger. For lower Key Stage 3 students.

Dracula’s Castle

A vampire story with an underlying message about sharing, by the author of ‘Room 13’, which won the 1990 ‘Children’s Book of the Year’ award. Nine year old twins Sam and Laura encounter Count Snacula, a vampire who likes to watch greedy, selfish children cramming their mouths with sweets.

Hydra

Something is causing mysterious circles to appear in the cornfields of Cansfield Farm. Someone or something, has obviously terrified Barry Cansfield, the farmer’s bullying son. But when friends Ben and Midge sneak out to the farm to investigate, they discover a secret more terrifying than they could possibly have imagined a truly monstrous horror that simply must be stopped.

Stone Cold

The demand for new drama literature for Key Stages 3 and 4 is met by these original scripts and adaptations of popular children’s fiction. The curriculum requirements for studying genuine dramatic literature will be achieved by studying these accessible theatre scripts. The plays can be successfully performed by pupils as they have already been performed in public to popular acclaim. The sophisticated themes and complex plots have been specifically designed to appeal to 11 16 year olds, and have a language level accessible to all pupils. These dramatic adaptations of popular texts allow pupils to respond to the subject matter from a new angle.

Timesnatch

Once a creature is extinct, it’s gone forever, right? Not any more. The physicist mother of Kizzy and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct, and bring it back into the present. It is a wonderful achievement and an astounding scientific breakthrough. But the machine, Rye’s Apparatus, also has horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events that eventually leads to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization.

Jacqueline Hyde

When 11 year old Jacqueline discovers a curious bottle of liquid in her granny’s attic, she develops a dual personality. It’s fun at first. Exciting. But then Jacqueline Bad gets into serious trouble, and although she keeps trying to be her old self, the bad side just won’t let go.

Hurricane Summer

It’s World War II and Jim has a fantastic new friend a fighter pilot. Jim worships Co*cky and looks forward to his every visit, but war changes people’s lives and friendship can bring pain as well as joy.

Nightmare Stairs

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.

Abomination

Martha is 12 and very different from other kids no TV, no computer, no cool clothes, and especially no friends. It’s all because of her parents, who are strict members of a religious group called the Brethren. Their rules dominate Martha’s life, and one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their terrible secret Abomination could be revealed. But as Martha makes her first real friend in Scott, a new boy at school, she begins to wonder, Is she doing the right thing by helping to keep Abomination a secret? And just how far will her parents go to prevent the truth from being known?

Invisible!

Twins Carrie and Conrad, and their friends Peter and Charlotte listen in to other people’s conversations and much more when a new girl at school shows them how to become invisible.

A Wish for Wings

Jenna, at 13, realizes what she wants to do with her life. She wants to fly. Like Grandad’s hero*ine, Amy Johnson, whose name appears on a ‘magic’ flagstone. But her wish for wings has to be put on hold when Grandad’s gun goes missing and Jenna is almost sure that her brother Ned has taken it.

Blitzed

George is fascinated by World War II even evacuation and rationing has got to be more exciting than living in dreary old Witchfield! He is looking forward to his school trip to Eden Camp, a World War II museum, but he never could have imagined how authentic this visit to wartime Britain will be. A hand reaching out of the fake rubble, a slip in time, and George has to survive something much worse than boredom. The rubble is now real he has slipped through time into 1940s London. Imagine being alive before your parents were even born!

Roger’s War

World War II has brought glamour to Roger’s village. Pilots of the US Airforce are based there: Roger’s heroes. All of his life he has dreamed of being something special. But Roger will never know glory. He’s dim, everybody says so. When his wits are put to the test, can he avert danger.

Ruby Tanya

This is a contemporary tale about two friends one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During a dramatic explosion at the girls’ school, a young teacher is killed. The asylum seekers at the local camp are blamed, and local people begin to argue that they should be deported. A branch of the National Front gets involved and demos are planned. Asra and her parents are due to be deported, but Asra runs away at the last minute so her parents have to return without her. She hides in a nearby derelict building and is helped by Ruby Tanya.

In the Nick of Time

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?

Shrapnel

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?

Room 13 / Inside the Worm

Room 13: Somebody was in there. Somebody or some thing. There is no room 13 in the creepy Crow’s Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room twelve. And something is happening to Ellie May Sunderland, too something very sinister. Inside the Worm: The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her. Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm or dragon that once terrorized the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to reenact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning with a thousand year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance.

Haunting Christmas Tales

It is Christmas Eve and a group of friends are gathered around a fireside. The only light source is the fire the only sound the hiss of logs. Warmed by their intimacy a group of friends begin to tell ghost stories.

The Orchard Book of Vikings

The fiery world of the Vikings is filled with amazing adventures and acts of courage. Battles with mighty giants, demons and dwarves abound and superhuman gods Thor, Odin and many more leap from the pages. These retellings will fire every child’s imagination. All the drama, magica and mystery of Robert Swindells’ stories are captured in Peter Utton’s illustrations, which bring the world of the Vikings so vividly to life.

Egyptian Gods and Pharaohs

Chivers offers the most extensive unabridged audio program for young readers. All titles are complete and unabridged, and feature full color covers. These books are perfect readalongs and companions for long trips and rainy days!For three thousand years, the Egyptian civilization was the greatest on earth. In the beautiful hieroglyphs, carved on tomb and temple walls, the ancient Egyptians wrote all they believed about the world: about Ra the sun god, Thoth the god of moon and the Measurer of Time, Osirus and Isis who gave people their skills, and about the long journey after death, through the underworld to the Fields of Peace. Enter a magical world of gods and sorcerers with these spellbinding stories, retold by an award winning children’s author and made lively, fresh, and accessible for today’s readers.

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