Product details
- ISBN 9780007307906
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Two spooky stories from double-Carnegie-winner, Berlie Doherty. Dark and atmospheric these two tales send a chill down the spine. A desolate winter moor is the backdrop to the first story of a haunting friendship, and, in the second, when the past comes back to haunt Charlie, it becomes impossible to tell what is real and what isn't.
- Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
- Text type: Two stories by a significant author.
- A feelings bar chart on pages 54-55 show the rise and fall in the narrators emotions during the first story, Nightmare.
- Curriculum links: Citizenship: Living in a diverse world.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Berlie Doherty is the youngest of three children. She has been a social worker, a journalist, a teacher, and, for the past fifteen years, a writer.
Berlie has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, for ‘Grannie was a Buffer Girl’ in 1987 and for ‘Dear Nobody’ in 1992. She lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.