Catherine MacPhail / Cathy MacPhail

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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Kevin is determined that he'll never join a gang but his path crosses the Tribe's when he saves one of them from a rival gang. Invited to take their initiation test, Kevin plans to break the oath of secrecy and tell everyone. But he falls under the s...

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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Lissa's world has just turned upside down. Her father has been in jail and is coming home for Christmas. She can't bear the way her mother and sister are so happy and making welcome plans. After all, he was the one who let them all down and spoilt he...

• Nov-2001
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Ivy turned on her. 'I told you I'd get you, didn't I? Well,' her next words sent shivers through Katie. 'Tonight's the night.'

Katie is being bullied at school - and cannot get anyone to believe her. She feels f...

• Sep-2002
• / Suspense
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Col McCann is used to being in trouble. It is always the McCann family, in particular Mungo, Col's brother, who the police think of first. But Col has recently acquired a new fan - Dominic. Col saves Dominic from drowning in the local loch and di...

• Dec-2002
• / Suspense
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Maxine's parents have to do the worst thing possible - identify her brother Derek's body from the clothes he was wearing when he disappeared. But then Maxine receives a telephone call from someone claiming to be her brother. The story confronts issue...

• Mar-2003
• / General Fiction
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'Young adult fiction is going from strength to strength, led by authors like Catherine MacPhail The Bookseller Following the success of the re-issue of 'Run Zan Run' this is another classic Catherine MacPhail title. Often requested at events, this in...

• Mar-2003
• / Thriller
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James, paralized in a car accident, is now in a wheelchair and he's furious. The teenage driver of the car that hit him was killed in the accident, so James can't believe his eyes when he sees him walking down the street. Despite his wheels, he decid...

• Jul-2004
• / Action Adventure
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A school trip goes disastrously wrong when a visit to local caves turns into something far more sinister. Five students find themselves trapped beneath the ground. Their best chance of escape is to stay together. Then a member of the group disappears...

• Jan-2005
• / General Fiction
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Jack's father died when Jack was three and he has lived happily with his mother, the tough and funny Big Rose. Then Big Rose starts lying, visiting the police station and making odd phone calls, so Jack decides to investigate....

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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It was as I was walking into the drama class that I remembered the girl I had bumped into and the green sweater just like mine. That was what had got Mrs Watt mixed up. She had seen the girl in the green sweater and thought it was me. That was the si...

• Jun-2005
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2006
• / Horror
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• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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It would have been hard to have missed what was written on the wall. Painted in giant whitewashed letters: 'SHARKEY IS A GRASS'.
I hadn't a clue who Sharkey was, but I knew one thing. 'Sharkey's a dead man,' I said.
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• Aug-2009
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• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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As a result of a strange twist of fate, Shawn suddenly discovers to his horror that he is living Percy's life - and Percy is now Shawn! A wry, perceptive comedy. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers....

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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'I saw my teacher in the queue at the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. She'd been dead for six months.' In Out of The Depths, Cathy MacPhail introduces her latest character, Tyler Lawless, who has an unusual and...

• Jan-2012
• / Mystery
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Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn't think he'll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can't resist taking it - but Ross gets more than he bargains...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Nicole convinces the new girl Destiny to spend the night at school, which Nicole claims is haunted, where she plans to give Destiny a fright, but when Nicole's friends start disappearing, she wonders who, or what, Destiny really is....

• May-2012
• / Mystery
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Tyler is staying in her grandmother’s cottage to help tidy it up after her death. Why does the spare bedroom that Tyler sleeps in always seem cold, despite bright sunshine? Why does she feel the presence of a frail old lady who is nothing like her ...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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On a dark and stormy night, Nanny Sue is trying to get rid of the three children so she can settle down to watch her favorite TV program. Then there is a banging on the door fit to wake the dead. It's Granny Nothing, looking like a rhinoceros in a fr...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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A brand new edition of the inspiring story of a young asylum seeker's struggle to build a new life with his family in Britain. At last Omar's family have a safe place to live. But life on the estate isn't easy. Sam's always there - in Omar's tower bl...

• Nov-2012
• / Thriller
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Mark is always in trouble. Now on a last warning, he's determined not to do anything wrong on the school trip, although, in his opinion, he is never the one at fault. When two bullies dare another boy to go inside a crumbling lighthouse, Mark can't s...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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If it wasn’t for Tom, one young boy would be much happier at school â€" he would be able to play football without being taunted from the sidelines. But is Tom as strong-willed when he is forced to play football as well? This thought-provoking st...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Patrick is happy living with his mum. She lets him do what he wants, pretty much, and it's only when his granny comes to stay that he has to get down to his homework and go to bed early. Then Patrick meets Mosi, a quiet, polite boy who, along with hi...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Chantelle Morgan is the most popular girl in school. Well, at least she was until Mimi came along. When Chantelle and her best friend Indira take clumsy, clueless new girl Mimi under their wing, Mimi takes all of their advice. She wears her uniform l...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Who is the Scarred Girl, and why does she frighten Tyler so much? A girl who died in a locked room in juvenile detention long ago, by her own hand, or was it murder? She asks for help, and Tyler knows she must help her, but the Scarred Girl has a sec...

• Feb-2015
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• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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"Baz was the kind of friend I wanted. Everyone seemed a bit afraid of him."Forced to move away from his dad in Aberdeen to a run-down Glasgow council estate, Logan thinks he's pretty lucky to have made any friends -- let alone Baz and the boys. Baz m...

• Apr-2017
• / Thriller
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Judith Tremayne is missing. She hasn't been online, nobody has heard from her. She simply appears to have vanished, until Abbie Knox, a school nobody, receives a message: "I want to come home". Suddenly everyone knows Abbie's name. The mean girls and...

• May-2017
• / Fantasy
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What transforms an ordinary Edinburgh boy into the most infamous split personality of all time? This vividly imagined diary of the young Henry Jekyll examines the contradictions within us all and teases out one possible backstory for the character in...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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The First World War is over but for Tony there is little to celebrate. His brother never returned from no man''s land. To make it worse, Charlie died not as a hero but was executed as a coward. Grief-stricken Tony refuses to believe that his brother ...

• Jan-2019
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It’s Jack’s first day at Glendale School. He’s a star goalie, so why isn’t he happy when he’s asked to join the team?• Themes of family and friendship are explored in this exciting tale of school football.• Text type â€" A story with a ...