New Releases by Robert Westall

Already orphaned by the war, ten-year-old Sonny faces an even more personal confrontation with the enemy in the form of a German pilot, shot down and looking for refuge. 8-11 yrs.

Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster''s medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire''s gargoyle.

Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother''s struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi.

YA. A boy promises his life to a girl who dies. She pulls him to the brink of his own life during WWII.

Believing his parents to be killed by the bomb which destroyed his home, twelve-year-old Harry sets off on a journey of survival.

While visiting his mother and new stepfather whom he hates, an English teenager is terrorized by three scarecrows embodying people who met violent death and who silently threaten the entire family.

When a shepherd opens an alien coffin he finds on a hillside, he unwittingly brings to Earth alien combatants, and has to work with the cat-like Fefethil to defeat the evil Wawaka, but not before lives are lost or changed forever.

Tales of psychological suspense and the possible supernatural.

After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.

In medieval France, huge, powerful cats and a magic dagger help Cam, a young English jack-of-all-trades, through a series of unusual and dangerous adventures.

While seeking shelter from a sudden rainstorm in an old barn, a young motorcyclist finds himself catapulted into a mid-17th century England troubled by witch hunts.