Books - Teenagers

• Sophie McKenzie
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781847382757
• Published: 07-07-2008

When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister. But when Rachel and Theo are attacked by men...

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• Jenny Valentine
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007291243
• Published: 02-06-2008

A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine's debut novel, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The mini cab office was up a cobbled mews with little flat houses either side. That's where I first met Violet Park, what was left of her. There was a healing centre next door, a prett...

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• Lois Lowry
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007263516
• Published: 05-05-2008

In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws...   THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no...

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• Derek Landy
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007241620
• Published: 03-09-2007

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course).  Oh yeah. And dead.   Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's... well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on t...

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• John Grogan
• Hodder & Stoughton
• ISBN13: 9780340922101
• Published: 26-07-2007

  THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT MOVED DOG LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING OWEN WILSON AND JENNIFER ANISTON** 'A book with intense appeal . . . tenderly follows its subject from sunrise to sunset' New York Times'No...

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• Mrs Sarah Wray
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571230723
• Published: 18-01-2007

They know. I'm sure of it.And I'm really scared.Who knows what they're capable of? I've got to get away.I've got to escape.It takes just one tragic moment for Jenny's life to change forever. Taken to live at Oak Hall Children's Centre, Jenny begins a very different life, confined to a wheelcha...

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• Robert Swindells
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552555883
• Published: 04-01-2007

Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all: she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomin...

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• Philip Pullman
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9780439943666
• Published: 06-11-2006

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 Lond...

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