Gwen Grant: 9 books

Set in the 1950s, when sixteen year old Lamour stumbles across a secret love affair she finds herself in great danger.

Set in 1980's England, 17 year old Maya starts her first job only to find that the company is rationalising the workforce. Will Maya be one of those to be let go? Can she do anything about it and if she does get a chance to do something, will she take it?

Anna shivered. Darkness, shapes, shadows, cut out of the night. The words echoed in her mind. What was that all about? Toby, the dog, stared down the passage, his fur bristling, his top lip curling and then he began to snarl… When Anna moves to a new area with her family, strange and scary things begin to happen.

When Bonny inadvertently finds the object which the stranger so desperately wants, she is drawn into a mysterious and terrifying struggle between the Dazzling Clown and the kindly Black Monk. Suddenly, the whole fate of Time and Eternity, good and evil, lies in the hands of Bonny Starr...

Knocked down by a car and seriously injured, sixteen year old Michael is in a coma. But the blue whales he has never really liked since his Dad, a committed ‘Save the Whale’ supporter, almost put him off all whales, are now not only helping Michael out of the coma but are also helping him forge a new relationship with his father.

Mamie wins a panda bear on the hoop-la stall. "You can stay with me for ever, Jonpanda," she says. But the little panda has an ear-ring of real gold and Mamie's mother thinks he is the wrong prize. Will she lose her new friend after all "Jonpanda is the sort of story small children love." Sunday Telegraph WINNER OF THE 1993 ACORN AWARD

Matthew makes a thrilling journey to the North Pole on his magic kite and saves a polar bear from the jaws of a killer whale.

'Come on, V. You're a big girl now,' her Dad said. 'Don't let's have any more tears.' 'Don't worry, there won't be any tears from me. I've done all the crying I'm going to do. You've been telling me to grow up. Well, now I have.' In the strike-torn town where Violette lives,...

A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town. ‘I told our Lucy I’m going to be a writer when I grow up...