Adèle Geras
A Candle in the Dark

Adele Geras was born in Jerusalem in 1944 and educated at Roedean School and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been writing for children and young adults since 1976 and has published more than 90 books. She has won two prizes in the USA: the Sydney Taylor Award for My Grandmother's Stories and the National Jewish Book Award for Golden Windows.

A Candle in the Dark is the moving story of two Jewish children, Clara and Maxi, who on the brink of the Second World War, must leave Germany and go to live with an English family they have never met.

Dorothy Edwards
More Naughty Little Sister Stories

Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown was born into a working-class family in Teddington on 6th November 1914, and wrote her first story when she was four years old. She dreamt up My Naughty Little Sister to keep her daughter quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. Dorothy based the character on her younger sister, Phyllis, and went on to write five books about her naughty little sister to wide acclaim. Each story and its characters, including the Little Sister's best friend, Bad Harry, was brought to life by Shirley Hughes's incomparable illustrations, and although over fifty years old, the stories have become timeless classics. Dorothy Edwards also wrote for the children's TV programmes, Playschool and Jackanory.

Anthony Horowitz
The Power of Five: Night Rise

Fourteen-year-old twins Scott and Jamie Tyler possess extraordinary powers. When Scott is kidnapped and Jamie is framed for murder, they realise they must use those powers if they are going to survive. But Jamie is catapulted thousands of years into the past - bringing him face to face with an ancient horror.