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Reading for Life have teamed up with Haven Holidays and the book publisher Random House to offer you a chance to win one of 10 family book packs.  Each pack contains 8 books, with at least one read for all members of the family.

To win all 8 of these fantastic books simply access the Haven Holiday website www.haven.com, click on My Account in the top right hand corner of the homepage, enter your details and then follow the links to the Offers and Discounts section and scroll down to the Reading for Life Family Book Giveaway.  The deadline for all entrants is the 31 August 2010.

 

Battleground

Chris Ryan - Battleground

You wake up in a dark room with no idea where you are. You are gagged and forced into a waiting truck. You have done nothing wrong. What would you do?

Fourteen-year-old Ben travels to Pakistan on a school exchange programme. Ben and his Pakistani host, Aaarya, find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. They see something they're not supposed to and are kidnapped by some strange men. Caught up in a terrifying planned terrorist attack that could destroy Southern Afghanistan, killing thousands, Ben and Aarya are dragged through the most terrifying battleground in the world.

 

Little Darlings

Jacqueline Wilson - Little Darlings

Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant nagging, intensive media scrutiny and no real friends.

Destiny, on the other hand, is an only child living on a rundown estate with a sickly but devoted mum who constantly tells her that she's really the daughter of a famous former rock star...

When the two girls meet in unlikely circumstances, they are surprised to find in each other something they've been missing all their lives...

 

Exit Wound

Andy McNab - Exit Wound

Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down... As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key. Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.

 

Fallen

Lauren Kate - Fallen

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart.

 

Slime Squad Vs The Toxic Teeth

Steve Cole - Slime Squad Vs The Toxic Teeth

Mad scientist Godfrey Gunk had a dream - a dream of creating a whole safari park of monsters on an old rubbish dump. It didn't work. Little did Godfrey know that actually after he left the rubbish dump, his dream came true . . .

Meet the inhabitants of Trashland,a whole world full of different types of small slimy monsters who all live peacefully alongside each other - at least until now . . .

When the hideous Countess Kiss and her vile mouth monsters invade the Mouth Museum and steal all the teeth, the Slime Squad are rightly suspicious.

It's time to fight crime with slime!

 

Noughts And Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Noughts And Crosses

Sephy is a Cross – a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought – a ‘colourless’ member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that’s as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools… Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum – a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger…

 

Celebrity Shopper

Carmen Reid - Celebrity Shopper

Q: How does a successful woman keep her feet on the ground?

A: By wearing the most incredible shoes!
Personal shopper Annie Valentine is presenting her own popular TV fashion series. But with success comes pressure, plus the expensive PA, personal trainer, driver and make-up artist.

As Annie comes to terms with fame, her boyfriend Ed is left at home looking after their brand new twin babies. Not to mention Annie’s children Lana and Owen and their increasingly dotty granny.

Ed was almost coping but now Annie's booked in the builders to do a conservatory, a wet room and somehow, somewhere, a golden cupola . .

And then just when Annie least expects it a stranger arrives, forcing her to think twice about everything she's ever wanted.

 

Why You Need a Passport When You're Going to Puke

Mitchell Symons - Why You Need a Passport When You're Going to Puke

Discover where a three-headed turtle was discovered in 1999, where the first toothbrush was invented, which country has summer as the only season and where you can buy square watermelons!

Guaranteed to have young readers hooked for hours.