David McRobbie

• Jan-1900
• / General Fiction
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Looking at her father's final, unfinished painting, Sara Ferguson sees within it something worthwhile and beautiful, just like her memories of him. But then she meets Ben Goodwin. He shatters her dream, forcing her to recognize that what she possesse...

• Jul-1999
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In 1953 in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Andrew is eager to begin his apprenticeship as a ship's engineer at the Dalrossan Dockyard but soon realizes that his new workplace is full of unwritten rules and dangerous undercurrents and that he cannot tell h...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Wayne has a vivid imagination, an optimistic approach to life, and a best friend named Squocka. On the first day of school, he gets a "T" for troublemaker marked next to his name because bully Kevin Merry tricks him int...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2011
• / Historical
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Just then came: crump, CRUMP, CRUMP! Three bombs in quick succession, coming frighteningly close. With each explosion, the ground shook. Dust and chips fell from the ceiling. Everyone in the shelter gasped at the same time. Vinnie held his breath, wa...

• Oct-2013
• / Action Adventure
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We had trained for emergencies. Every man knew how to launch a lifeboat. There were life jackets to save us, but no one said, Oh, and this is what an exploding torpedo does, and here's what happens when the ship sinks under you. And the lights will b...

• May-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Some say your teenage years are like falling up stairs — sometimes painful, but you'll eventually get there. Here then are two separate stories about boys who are in the middle of their hurtful journeys. The first boy, Matthew, aims to win ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Rob Braden is an ordinary schoolboy in a typical high school. Then Livy crashes her way into his peaceful life. Livy is the She of the story. Livy starts to annoy Rob, first in a small way, but then things become serious.She challenges Rob to a dare,...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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Mandragora is the story of four old curses that destroyed a 19th century sailing ship, the Dunarling, and most of her passengers and crew. A hundred years later four teenagers uncover the objects that carried the curses — and the evil starts ag...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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This is a story about a small crime in a primary school. It’s hardly worth bothering about, but it worries Charlie Thomson. After all, Charlie’s the one who got the blame. So he sets out to do some detective work and find the real culprit...

• Jul-2014
• / Action Adventure
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It is 1937 and the London to Glasgow train crashes one wintry Scottish night. Shortly after that tragic event two ghosts appear — a girl and boy who had been living passengers on the train.The ghosts somehow find their way into a nearby orphana...

• Jan-2017
• / General Fiction
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Teenager Bill Fields and his father move into a new but old house, which is one of four identical dwellings in Prior’s Pocket. For Bill, the place takes some getting used to; it’s old and spooky, especially in the daytime when he comes ho...

• Jan-2017
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Shaun is no ordinary teenage boy, in fact he’s not a boy at all. Shaun is a robot, otherwise known as Robo-dude, a domestic helper around the house. He has been bought by mother and daughter, Sandra and Chloe Wilson to bring some order into the...

• / Thriller
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The practice of ‘initiation’, hazing or bullying is frequently in the news. It is not an experience reserved for working class victims as reports of incidents in university halls of residence will show. The so-called ‘tradition̵...

• / Historical
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In Victorian London, we meet Tom Callow, a young man with a puffed-up sense of entitlement. He believes that an inheritance should be his but instead it goes to Blythe Armstrong, a teenage girl living in far off colonial Sydney. Blythe is invited to ...

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The Fourth CautionSynopsisAdam Kingston is an apprentice motor-mechanic with a love of cars and equally keen on Tania, another apprentice in the repair shop where he works. Then Adam hears another girl’s voice in his head calling him to come to...