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GENERAL FICTION ABDEL-FATTAH,RandaDoesmyheadlookbiginthis?(850L)High School is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix. AUSEON,Andrew FunnyLittleMonkey(880L)Arty, an abnormally short fourteen-year-old boy, enlists the help of a group of students, known at school as the "pathetic losers," to take revenge against his abusive, tall fraternal twin brother. BATHURST,Bella SpecialA chilling and subversive debut novel about adolescent girls forging their identities - at any price. BLUME,Judy Deenie(690L)Deenie is 13 years old and gorgeous. Her mother wants her to be a model - but, when she's diagnosed with scoliosis - curvature of the spine - Deenie's almost relieved. BRUGMAN,Alyssa SoloA teenage daughter of drug-damaged parents has little reason to trust other people, or even herself. CANN,Kate EscapeRowan is desperate to get away and a gap year in the USA is just what she needs. But when things don't go as she planned, it's time to take to the open road. CHOLDENKO,GenniferAlCaponeDoesmyShirtsMoose Flanagan lives with his family on Alcatraz Island – home to a high security prison and the famous gangster Al Capone. CORMIER,Robert ChocolateWar(820L)A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. DHAMI,Narinder BenditlikeBeckhamJess just wants to play football, but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off! DONELLY,Jennifer GatheringLightMattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest

GREEN,John VariousTitles(850–930L)An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns Will Grayson, Will Grayson / The Fault in our stars HADDON,Mark CuriousIncidentoftheDogintheNightTime(1180L)Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. HAYES,Rosemary MixingItThe lives of two young people in England--Fatimah, a devout Muslim, and Steve, a white, nonreligious boy--are changed when a press photo taken of them after a terrorist attack makes it appear that they are a couple and that Fatimah saved him and let her Muslim friend die. HEARN,Julie RowantheStrangeThis amazing story gives a thought-provoking look at life in an asylum and the experimental treatments practised at the start of the Second World War. For Rowan, nobody could ever have predicted the effect these treatments would have. HESSER,TerrySpencerKissingdoorknobsFourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends. HINTON,SE TheOutsiders(750L)Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy. JHA,RajKhamal FireproofA helpless nation watches as the city of Ahmedabad in India is rocked by religious violence. KEITH,Lois ADifferentLifeLike most high school girls, Libby Starling is worried about her looks, her grades, and her social life, but when she becomes ill after a class trip, she realizes there are more important things in life. KEIL,Melissa TheIncredibleAdventuresofCinnamonGirl(860L)A funny and unique feel good read about how to keep on being yourself when everything around you is changing.

GENERAL FICTION KLEIN,Rachel TheMothDiariesThe Moth Diaries is a compellingly brilliant portrait of obsession and fear set in the hothouse atmosphere of a girls' boarding school. KORMAN,Gordon NoMoreDeadDogs(610L)Nobody understand Wallace Wallace. After Wallace refuses to rewrite his book report, he ends up helping with the school play…which he manages to change into a rock-and-roll rendition, complete with rollerblades and a moped. LEEWONG,Joyce SeeingEmilyEmily Wu has always been a good student, daughter, and friend, helping her parents run their Chinese restaurant and spending time painting, but when a sexy transfer student takes an interest in Emily, she begins to change who she is in order to win his affection. LLOYD,Saci TheCarbonDiaries2015(690L)It’s January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing, in a drastic bid to combat climate change. LOCKHART,E. FlyontheWall(850L)At the Manhattan School for Art and Music where everyone is different and everyone is special, Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. One day Gretche wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys' locker room - just to learn more about guys. LONDON,JackCalloftheWild&WhiteFang(1120L)The dog hero, Buck, is stolen from his home and pressed into service as a sledge dog in the Klondike. LYGA,Barry TheAstonishingAdventuresofFanBoyandGothGirl(710L)A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.MAC,Carrie TheBeckoners(750L)Zoe, unhappy to be moving once again, falls in with the Beckoners, a group of bullies at her new school, but soon finds herself trying to get free from the gang whose actions against their favorite target, a girl they call Dog, are escalating to violence.

MARTELL,Yann LifeofPi(830L)Pi Patel, 16 year old son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, sets off with his family to Canada, but his life takes a dramatic turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific leaving him adrift on a raft with a Bengal tiger for company. MCCORMICK,Patricia Sold(820L)Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When Lakshmi’s family lose everything, her stepfather says she must leave home and take a job in the city. Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India full of hope for her new life. Then she learns the unthinkable truth: for 10,000 rupees she has been sold into prostitution. MORRALL,Heather EchoGlassWith Cori's bullying, almost every day turns into hell. That is until Jasmine finds an escape...A dangerous obsession begins. A world of anorexia and silence. NA,An AStepfromHeaven(670L)A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America. WaitforMe(670L)Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister and dealing with her mother’s impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out. NADIN,Joanna LifeofRileyThis year I will utterly not snog random posh boys with congenital acne but will save myself for long-haired creative type with interest in tragicness and with musical potential i.e. Justin Statham. PERERA,Ann GuantanamoBoyKhalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. PIERSON,D.C. TheBoywhocouldn’tsleepandneverhadtoFifteen year old Darren, a social misfit who spends his time at school trying not to be noticed while drawing characters for a planned film series and book tie-ins, befriends Eric, another outcast who reveals that he never sleeps.

GENERAL FICTION TOWNSEND,Sue SecretDiaryofAdrianMoleAged13¾(740L)The memoir of a British teenager named AdrianURE,Jean BadAliceDuffy suffers mildy from Tourette's Syndrome. Staying with his gran for the summer, he only knows his gran and one of her neighbour's kids, a loud, insensitive kid called Stephen - what's he going to do for six whole weeks! Then Duffy meets Alice, a girl his age who lives next door. ZEPHANIAH,Benjamin RefugeeBoyFourteen-year-old Alem Kelo adjusts to life as a foster child seeking asylum in London, while his Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father work for peace between their homelands in Africa.

Teacher’sDeadA teacher is dead, murdered by two of his students in front of the school. He was a good man. People liked him. So how could this happen? Why? It just doesn't make sense to Jackson, and he is determined to investigate the case until he understands. Benjamin Zephaniah has, once again, chosen a topical and hard-hitting subject - and he deals with it in his own uniquely empathetic and edgy way. ZEVIN,Gabriele MemoirsofaTeenageAmnesiacWhen Naomi tries to piece back the fragments of the last three and a half years of her life, she discovers a lot. She has a boyfriend but can't remember him, her mother and father are divorced, and she has forgotten that she is supposed to hate her mother. She also has a group of friends which simply doesn't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary, she only mentioned what she ate every day in it! YE,Ting-Xing ThrowawayDaughterGrace is adopted. Of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, she was one of the lucky ones, taken by a loving family to start a new life. YOON,Nicola Everything,Everything(HL660L)Madeline is allergic to the outside world. When Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother had built around her.

RAI,Bali (un)arrangedMarriageSet partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune. ROBERT,Na’imaBint. FromSomaliawithLoveOne girl's quest to discover who she is as her father arrives to live with her mum and brothers in East London, bringing with him some traditional Somalian values. ROSOFF,Meg JustinCaseConvinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom. ROWELL,Rainbow Eleanor&Park(HL580L)Eleanor is the new girl in town and she’s never felt more alone. She couldn’t stick our more if she tried. Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, they fall in love. SEANZ, Benjamin Alire Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When they meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the two loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special kind of friendship. SOTO,Gary Havemercyontheseteenagechimps(780L)At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down. SMITH,KirstenTheGeographyofgirlhoodA coming-of-age novel in poems STRATON,Allan Chanda’sSecret(590L)Chandra Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a small South African town, faces down shame and stigma in her efforts to help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS.

HORROR & SUPERNATURAL STORIES BACHMAN,Stefan TheCabinetofCuriosities:36

talesbriefandsinisterCAINE,Rachel MorganvilleVampires(series)(670L)College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they come out fighting when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood... DUNCAN,Lois Iknowwhatyoudidlastsummer(760L)Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.GRAY,Claudia EvernightSeries(760L)Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.JINKS,Catherine TheReformedVampiresupportgroup(750L)The trouble with being a vampire is...You can't get a decent haircut. You live on guinea-pig blood. And even worse, most of the world's population wants to kill you for no good reasonMABERRY,Jonathan Rot&RuinSeries(HL780L)Nearly fourteen years ago, a freak virus swept across the world turning the living into the undead. Benny Imura was only a toddler, but his last memory of his parents is tainted by the image of them becoming zombies and he blames his older brother, Tom, for not saving them. MAGUIRE,Eden BeautifulDeadSeriesSomething strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. Rumours of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss. MORRIS,Paul RuinedRebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans, until she makes a friend, Lisette. There’s just one catch. Lisette is a ghost. As Rebecca is drawn into a web of curses and cryptic customs she uncovers startling truths about her own history. Will Rebecca be able to right the wrongs of the past, or has everything been ruined beyond

NOEL,Alyson TheImmortalsSeriesEver is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California, she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her, and haunted by the ghost of her little sister. PEREZ,Marlene DeadistheNewBlackSeventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics, attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.PIKE,Aprilynne LifeAfterTheft(HL650L)Kimberlee’s dead. Has been for a while. Doomed to an afterlife of boredom, until a new kid shows up. SMITH,CynthiaLeitichTantalize(760L)Orphaned and in her uncle’s care, fiercely independent Quincie may be the most over-achieving high-school student around, but even she has her hands full with a hybrid-werewolf boyfriend and the opening of Sanguini’s, her hip vampire-themed restaurant, which turns out to have way more bite than she’d intended. STIEFVATER,Maggie Shiver(740L)Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. Every winter, she watches him but every summer, he disappears. Sam leads two lives. In winter he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack in summer, he has a few precious months to be human STOLARZ,LaurieFaria Project17(770L)When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occurring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives. BlueisforNightmaresSeries(HL730L)Stacey Brown. A typical teenager, she worries about getting good grades and falling in love. But Stacey is also a hereditary witch who is blessed - or cursed - with a gift for prophetic dreams. WILDE,Oscar PictureofDorianGray(970L)The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by society artist Basil Hallward. Admired by all, the dazzling, wealthy, handsome young man has everything anyone could wish for -- or so it appears.

SCI-FI & FANTASY ABERCROMBIE,Joe ShatteredSeaSeries(900l)Betrayed by his family and left for dead, Prince Yari, reluctant heir to a divided kingdom, has vowed to reclaim a throne he never wanted. ADAMS,Douglas Hitchhiker’sGuidetotheGalaxy(1000L)Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. ALTON,Steve TheMalifexIn the Dorset, England, countryside on a family vacation, a video game fanatic reluctantly embarks on a quest to battle an ancient evil, aided by the daughter of a Wiccan and a man once apprenticed to Merlin. ARMSTRONG,KelleyTheGatheringSeries(HL640L)Maya Delaney has always felt a close bond with nature. The woods around her home are a much-loved sanctuary - and the pawprint birthmark on her hip feels like a sign that she belongs. But then strange and terrible things begin to happen in the tiny medical-research town of Salmon Creek (population: 200). BLACKMAN,Malorie NobleConflictYears after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. BLACK,Holly TitheSeries(750L)Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad, until an ominous attack forces them back to her childhood home. To the place where she used to see Faeries. They're still there, but Kaye's not a child any more. This time she's dragged into the thick of their dangerous, frightening world . . . BRADBURY,Ray Fahrenheit451(890L)The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness

BROOKS,Kevin iBoyBefore the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it's having an extraordinary effect... CANAVAN,Trudie Magician’sGuild(Series)Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. CAREY,JanetLee DragonswoodIn the enchanted woodland wild, the prince shall wed a fairy child. Dragon, human, and fairy, their union will be bound by three. CASS,Kiera SelectionSeries(HL680L)It’s the chance of a lifetime and 17-year-old America Singer should feel lucky. She has been chosen for The Selection. CAVE,Patrick BlownAwayDom tells, through his diary, of the huge changes coming to the world, and how cloning became a way to ensure power for a select group of people. Adeline now lives with Clarissa in a settlement in the Pyrenees, though it is under attack from incomers.. Could she really be the saviour Briton hopes for? COLFER,Eoin TheSupernaturalist(650L)Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite … until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. CONDIE,Allie Matchedseries(680L)On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her match, society dictates he is her perfect partner for life, except he's not. In Cassia's society, officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die.CRICHTON,Michael JurassicPark(710L)An account of the attempt to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering. Sphere(610L)A group of American scientists descend to the ocean floor to investigate a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall, and three hundred years old.

SCI-FI & FANTASY GEMMELL,David WaylanderSeriesThe Drenai king is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill every man, woman and child.GRANT,Michael BZRKSeriesWelcome to nano, where the only battle is for sanity. Losing is not an option when a world of madness is at stake. HEARN,Lian AcrosstheNightingaleFloor(series)Fleeing the slaughter of his village and pursued by Lord Iidu's warriors, Tomasu, expects to die. Raised among the Hidden, he is forbidden to kill and is expected to forgive his enemies. When Otori Shigeru steps into his path, Tomasu thinks the worst; instead Shigeru kills one pursuer and seriously wounds another. HOLMBERG,CharlieN. ThePaperMagicianSeriesCeony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever. LAWHEAD,Steven Scarlet(series)From his gaol cell, outlaw Will Scatlocke waits to be hanged. Before he swings, Will - known to his friends as Scarlet - dictates his story to Odo, a duplicitous monk who has been given the job of recording his confession.LOWRY,Lois GatheringBlue(680L)Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.MAAS,SarahJ. ThroneofGlassSeries(790L)In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, bue she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. MACCAFFREY,Anne Dragondrums(series)When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures.

DASHNER,James MortalityDoctrineSeries(790L)To catch a hacker, you need a hacker. DELINT,Charles BlueGirl(800L)New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. DICKINSON,Peter Eva(1010L)After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.EDWARDS,Janet EarthGirlSeries(840L)Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she’s more than just an Earth Girl? FARMER,Nancy HouseofScorpionsSeries(600L)Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. FISCHER, Incarceron(Series)Incarceron – a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here.FUNKE,Cornelia RecklessSeriesJacob has uncovered the doorway to another world, hidden behind a mirror. It is a place of dark magic and enchanted objects. Following him in, his brother becomes trapped and Jacob must fight to save him being turned to stone forever. GAIMAN,Neil Stardust(970L)Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...

SCI-FI & FANTASY OLIVER,Lauren DeliriumSeries(920L)They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. PATTERSON,James DangerousDaysofDanielX(680L)Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on he faces his first of the top ten outlaws. PRICE,Susan TheSterkarmHandshake(850L)&ASterkharmKiss(870L)It's the twenty-first century and a scientific corporation have come up with the ultimate holiday destination... the past. PULLMAN,Philip GrimmTales:foryoungandoldIn this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a ‘clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. ROBSON,Justina KeepingitRealSeriesThe Quantum bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe’s different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of elven, elemental and demonic realms. RYAN,AMYKathleen SkyChasersSeries(750L)Onboard the Empyrean – Seth is mysteriously released from his cell in the brig when an explosion rocks the ship. Keiran accuses Seth of causing the explosion but is has in fact been caused by a saboteur. ROWELL,Rainbow CarryOn(HL570L)When you are the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything SOMERS,Ian MillionDollarGiftRoss has the gift of telekinesis. When a contest is announced to win a Million Dollar Gift if you can prove you have a superpower, he can’t let this opportunity pass. SPOONER,Meagan Skylark(830L)For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resources would be harvested and she would finally be an adult. Lark did not expect to become the City’s power supply.

MCINTSH,Will BurningMidnight(HL670L)Sully is a sphere dealer. No one knows where the spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the world. When he meets Hunter, who has a natural talent for finding them, they start searching together. What they find will change more than just their lives. MCISAAC,Meaghan UrgleAbandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive - until they grow into men and it's time for their Leaving Day. MALLEY,Gemma TheDeclaration(930L)Anna Covey is a 'Surplus'. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer inevitable, children are an abomination. Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives.MEYER,Stephanie Host(640L)Melanie refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.NESS,Patrick KnifeofNeverLettingGo(trilogy)Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown where everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending noise. Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a post of complete silence. Which is impossible... NIX,Garth TheKeystotheKingdomSeries(800L–980L)Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped like the minute hand of a clock. The key causes bizarre creatures to come from another realm, bringing with them a plague. A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing to get the key back. O’BRIEN, ZforZachariah(820L)Nuclear war has devastated America, except for the valley where Ann Burden has been living alone for over a year - until Loomis, a scientist in a radiation-proof suit, arrives. She hopes they will be companions but his behaviour towards her becomes increasingly threatening as he attacks her and then cuts off her food supply and tries to bring her under his control.

SCI-FI & FANTASY WESTERFELD,Scott Uglies(series)(770L)Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this important event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also fifteen - but with a very different outlook on life. Before her operation she plans to escape to a community in the forest - the Rusty Ruins - where Uglies go to escape ' turning'. ZeroesSeries(HL660L)Six teens with new kinds of superpowers. WHITE,Keirsten AndIDarken(750L)No One expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwyla likes it that way. WOODING,Chris StormThief(800L)With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.

STIEFVATER,Maggie RavenBoysSeries(HL760L)Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will die. To find the truth, she travels with four boys who are on a quest to discover Glendower – for whoever finds him will be granted a supernatural favour.SWFIT,Jonathan Gulliver’sTravels(1210L)The adventures of Gulliver through various fictional lands. TOLKIEN,JRR TheHobbit(1000L)The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish. VERNE,Jules JourneytotheCentreoftheEarth(810L)Professor Von Hartwigg finds a secret tunnel which leads through a volcano to the centre of the Earth. WARD,RACHEL NumbersSeries(HL500-650L)Since her mother’s death, Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else’s, a number pops into her head – the date on which they will die. WASSERMAN,Robin Skinned(HL630L)Lia Kahn is beautiful, popular and destined for success...until the horrific accident that nearly kills her. Lia wakes up in a body that is not a body. It's a machine, designed to look and feel human, and her memories have been 'downloaded'. Lia will never age. She need never feel pain again. And, as long as she is vigilant about backing up her memories, she need never die. Struggling to come to terms with what has happened, Lia tries to return to her own life. But nothing is the same... WEATHERLY,L.A. BrokenSkySeries(HL590L)Welcome to a ‘perfect world’. Where war is illegal, harmony is enforced and your date of birth marks your destiny. But nothing is perfect in a world this broken, who can Amity trust? Friends? Family? Her one true love? WERLIN,Nancy Impossible(670L)When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.

MYSTERIES & ADVENTURE STORIES AND THRILLERS COLFER,Eoin Airman(800L)

One dark night on the island of Great Saltee, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn't commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, Conor is trapped in a seaswept dungeon and branded a traitor. He must escape and clear his name; he wants his old life back - his family, his friends . . . and his princess. CORMIER,Robert Heroes(1050L)After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him. DREWERY,Kerry Cell7An adored celebrity has been killed. Martha Honeydew was found holding a gun, standing over the body. The general public will decide whether she is guilty by viewing daily episodes of the TV show Death is Justice. EASTON,Tom SevenSecondDelayMila has 7 seconds. 7 seconds to fight. 7 seconds to escape. ELLISON,Kate TheButterflyCluesShe discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market, and recognises it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as "Sapphire" - a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get the murder out of her mind. GERBER,Linda DeathbyBikini(640L)Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island resort, who strangled a famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering teenaged guest is hiding. GRAY,Keith OstrichBoysIt's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.' Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway.

ASHLEY,Bernard NoWaytoGoAmber is shocked when her brother falls to his death from a tower block. She's convinced it wasn't an accident, and so begins her journey to discover the truth and bring some kind of justice for Connor.BAUER,Joan Peeled(620L)In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted. BOYCE,FrankCottrell Framed(680L)Dylan Hughes is more interested in the Ninja Turtles than in the Renaissance artists they are named after. Then Dad disappears and overnight, Dylan becomes boss of the failing family business - and an extremely reluctant robber. BRIAN,Kate PrivateSeriesBROOKS,Kevin BlackRabbitSummer(730L) Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. As secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives . . . BUCHAN,John TheThirty-NineSteps(1000L)Young mining engineer Richard Hannay, having returned to England from South Africa just before World War I, is pursued by both foreign agents and British authorities as he investigates clues left by a murdered man in an effort to save his own life and the future of his country.CARRINGTON,Jim Boy23One dark knight, Boy 23 is thrown in the back of the van and driven out of My Place – the only home he has ever known. He is abandoned in a forest with a rucksack containing the bare essentials for survival. A voice tells him he must run as far as he can, his life depends on it. COLE,Stephen SeriesFeaturingJonahWish:ThievesLikeUs/TheAztecCode/TheBloodlineCipher(780L)A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.

MYSTERIES & ADVENTURE STORIES AND THRILLERS UPDALE,Elizabeth MontmorencySeries(880–

930L)Who is Montmorency? Some say he's a dangerous villain. To others he's a hero. How do a terrible accident and an ambitious young doctor forge his two identities? And how long can he sustain them without getting caught? WAUDBY,Jennie Oneofus(590L)When K marrowly survives a bomb attack, she agrees to cross the line; to go under cover, befriending the radical young group held responsible.WELFORD,Ross TimeTravellingwithaHamster(900l)On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it Al receives a mission; travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life. Westerfeld,Scott AfterworldsTold in alternating chapters is Darcy’s novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen who slips into the ‘Afterworld’ to survive a terrorist attack. ZUSAK,Marcus IamtheMessenger(640L)After single-handedly managing to catch a bank robber, Ed receives a playing card in the mail: the Ace of Diamonds. This is the first message, Four more will follow.

HIGSON,Charlie Silverfin(YoungBondSeries900L)Before the name became a legend. Before the boy became a man, Meet Bond, James Bond. LORENTZ,Dayna NoSafetyinNumbersSeries(HL710L)Teens Shay, Marco, Lexi, and Ryan, quarantined in a shopping mall when a biological bomb goes off in an air duct, learn that in an emergency people change, and not always for the better, as many become sick and supplies run low. PAULSEN,Gary Hatchet(1020L)Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crash-lands in the Canadian wilderness. All he has is a hatchet - and a desperate will to survive. Now Brian must learn to live the hard way - or die. PROWSE,Jane HattoriHachi:TheRevengeofthePrayingMantisHattie Jackson is just an ordinary fifteen-year-old - until her mother disappears and Hattie's life is turned upside down. With he help of her friend Mad Dog, Hattie discovers the truth about her mother's 'other life' and the role she must now take on to defeat a terrifying army of evil Ninjutsu warriors, led by Praying Mantis - the most deadly assassin of all... PULLMAN,Philip SallyLockhartQuartetSeries(740L–900L)Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives a strange anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the center of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel. RABB,ME MissingPersonsSeriesMeet Sam and Sophie - runaway sisters from Queens, New York, who are trying to make new lives for themselves in the tiny town of Venice, Indiana. They've changed their names, dyed their hair...and even discovered a new talent - finding missing persons. REICHS,Kathy ViralsSeries(HL480-520L)Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt, Tempe Brennan. Her ragbag group of technophile friends stumble across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years. Tory realizes that they are involved in something fatally dangerous.

HISTORICAL FICTION BRESLIN,Theresa Remembrance(870L)It’s the summer of 1915 and the sound of gunfire at the Western Front can be heard across the Channel. In the little village of Stratharden, the Great War is to alter the course of five young lives forever. BRONTE,Emily WutheringHeights(770L)There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.CHAMBERS,Aidan PostcardsfromNo-man’sLand(900L)Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers’ attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation. COHEN-SCALI,Sarah MaxBaby Max is the perfect prototype of the Nazi eugenics programme; he is the ideal size with ideal hair colour and blue eyes. Raised to endure pain and be brave at all costs, he is drawn further into the horror of war and must fight to untangle the truth from the lie. CHOTJEWITZ,David DanielHalfHuman(740L)Daniel and Armin are best friends from well-to-do families and enjoy football and school. They also admire Hitler as an underdog and revolutionary hero and talk about joining the Hitler Youth - until Daniel learns to his horror that his mother is Jewish, that he is himself half-Jewish and therefore, in Aryan eyes, half human....CURITS,Vanessa TheEarthisSinging(850L)My Name is Hanna. I am 15. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I’m training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived and I am a Jew. D’ADAMO MyBrotherJohnnyA young flier comes back from the war after learning he had been ordered to bomb civilians and provokes anger in the people of his home town when he takes an anti-war stand. DAWSON, WildBoy(530L)In 18th-century France, a child is captured in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years.

ALCOTT,LouisaMay LittleWomen(1300L)Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy learn the hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. ANDERSON,LaurieHalseFever(580L)In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. ANGUS,Sam SoldierDogThe heart-breaking, powerful story of a boy soldier and his messenger dog, set against the backdrop of WWI. ARMSTRONG,WilliamH. Sounder(900L)Tells of the courage and love that bind a black family together despite the extreme prejudice and inhumanity it faces in the Deep South. AUEL,JeanM EarthChildren’sSeries(1000L)The story of Ayla begins when she is adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthals. Initially she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. She is cared for by its medicine woman, Iza, and its wise holy man, Creb. But she makes an implacable enemy of the group's future leader, Broud. He will do all he can to destroy her - but Ayla is a survivor. AUSTEN,Jane Emma(1070L)Emma Woodhouse learns lessons on true class and love after an eventful turn as a matchmaker. BENNETT,Cherie AnneFrankandMe(550L)The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Paris in World War II. BENNETT,Veronica Angelmonster(850L)Mary and her sister Jane have always longed for a handsome young poet to whisk them away from their mundane life. Then, in the spring of 1814, Percy Shelley walks into their father's shop, like an angel of deliverance. Her children with Shelley begin to die, and though her grief threatens to overwhelm her and her marriage to Shelley, it also gives her the germ of an idea - a story.

HISTORICAL FICTION HARDINGE,Frances TheLieTree(860L)Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances and she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. JORDAN,Sheryl RagingQuiet(830L)A captivating tale of two remarkable and extraordinary young people - Marnie, a courageous young woman, and Raver, a strange and spirited young man - whose only real crimes are that they are different. Set within a chilling world of prejudices and hypocrisy, ignorance and self-righteousness.LLANDMAN,Tanya Apache(860L)Siki is an orphan of the Black Mountain Apache. Her mother was killed by Mexicans three years ago and her father lost in an ambush the winter before that. When Siki witnesses the brutal murder of her little brother Tazhi, she vows to become an Apache warrior and avenge her brother's death. MITCHELL,Jane ChalklineIt's an ordinary morning Rafiq's school in rural Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers is ripped apart by gunfire. Soldiers of the Kashmir Freedom Fighters have raided the village in search of new recruits - they scrawl a line in chalk across the schoolroom wall, and any boy whose height reaches the line will be taken to fight. Rafiq is tall for his age - the first boy to cross the chalkline into a life of brutality and terrorism.MYERS,WalterDean FallenAngels(650L)Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.OLDHAM,June IntheBloodFinding an old map in his grandfather's home, Rigby begins to realise that it duplicates Normandy: the marked sites mirror places in another place and other time - the days following the Normandy landings in 1944. He is drawn down an elusive trail into the past, hunting old memories and new truths to the heart of his grandfather's youth in the raw days of the War.OSBORNE,William Hitler’sAngelOtto and Leni have escaped to England from Nazi Germany. They thought they were safe, but now the British want them to go back. Dropped behind enemy lines, they embark on a secret operation codenamed Wolfsangel. Their mission is to find and kidnap a girl who could bring down Hitler And so begins their bravest journey yet

DONNELLY,Jennifer TheseShallowGraves(HL630L)A wealthy family. A rotten secret. A young woman with more to lose than she knows. DOWSWELL,Paul AuslanderWhen Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter is racially valuable. He is Volksdeutscher: of German blood. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and acceptably proportioned head, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-Jugend poster. But Peter is not quite the specimen they think. He is forming his own ideas about what he is seeing, what he is told. RedShadowRussia 1940. Misha’s life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin’s inner circle. DUMAS,Alexandre TheCountofMonteCristo(930L)Presents Alexandre Dumas' classic novel that tells the story of Edmund Dantes, a young sailor who sets out to discover the treasure of Monte Cristo and seek revenge against the people who falsely accused him TheManintheIronMask950L)A tale of love and political intrigue around the mystery of the man in the iron mask. FLETCHER,Susan ALittleinLoveAs a young child Eponine never knew kindness, except once from her family's kitchen slave, Cosette. When at sixteen the girls' paths cross again and their circumstances are reversed, Eponine must decide what that friendship is worth, even though they've both fallen for the same boy. In the end, Eponine will sacrifice everything to keep true love alive. FORBES,ESTHER JohnnyTremain:astoryofBostoninrevolt(840L)An apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injuries his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Addams and Dr Joseph Warren. GARDNER,Sally TheRedNecklace(820L)The story of a remarkable boy called Yann; Tetu, his friend and mentor, Sido unloved daughter of a foolish marquis and Count Kalliovski Grand Master of a secret society. GERAS,Adele Troy(670L)The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.

HISTORICAL FICTION SPEARE,ElizabethGeorge TheWitchofBlackbirdPond(850L)Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. SPINELLI,Jerry Milkweed(510L)This is the true story of Jews and Gypsies in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. SUTCLIFF,Rosemary FrontierWolfAs punishment for his poor judgment, a young, inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to Northern England to assume the command of a motley group known as the Frontier Wolves.TWAIN,Mark TheAdventuresofTomSawyerandtheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn(950L)Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much as home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping WILES,Deborah Countdown(800L)It’s 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn’t know how to deal with what’s going on in the world—no more than she knows how to deal with what’s going on with her family and friends. But somehow she’s got to make it through. WOLK,Lauren WolfHollowAnnabelle has lived in Wolf Hollow all her life: a quiet place, still scarred by two world wars. But when cruel, manipulative Betty arrives in town, Annabelle’s calm world I shattered. ZUSAK,Marcus TheBookThief(730L)1939 - Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

PEET,Mal Tamar(780L)In England in 1995, Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family. PELLEGRINO,Marge JourneyofDreams(740L)This is the story of how one family survives the Guatemalan army's 'scorched earth' campaign in the 1980s and how, in the midst of tragedy, suspicion and fear, their resilient love and loyalty - and Papa's storytelling - keeps them going. REES,Celia Witchchild(series)(760L)When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. Soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity and once more she finds herself having to make important choices to ensure her survival. RIORDAN,James WhentheGunsFallSilentThis amazing story based on true facts from the First World War will transport readers back to the war fields of France and show that even in times of conflict and extreme sadness, there is always hope. RIGBY,Robert EagleTrailFleeing Nazi-occupied Antwerp where his father has been shot and his mother arrested, Paul Hansen finds himself in a desperate flight through Belgium and France to the Pyrenees, aided by members of the Resistance. RYLANT,Cynthia IHadSeenCastles(950L)Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever.SAYRES,MeeghanNuttal Anahita’sWovenRiddle(850L)In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.SEPETYS,Ruta SalttotheSea(HL560L)It’s early 1945 and a group of people trewk across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land.