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Fighting Ruben Wolfe
- Markus Zusak
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9781862309579
- Published: 28-01-2010
I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just...
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January
- Gabrielle Lord
- Hachette Children's Group
- ISBN13: 9780340996447
- Published: 07-01-2010
On New Year's Eve, Cal is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! Forced into a life on the run, Cal finds himself hunted by ruthless criminals and the police. Somehow he must uncover the truth...
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Love, Aubrey
- Suzanne LaFleur
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141327044
- Published: 07-01-2010
Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own.'It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to think about but TV and cheese. A perfect world.'She's determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear.<br...
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Hunger
- Michael Grant
- Egmont UK Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781405251532
- Published: 04-01-2010
The clock is ticking for Sam Temple and the kids of Perdido Beach but it's not the big one-five that they face now; it's starvation that threatens the FAYZ. In an abandoned mine shaft a faceless animal lurks, pulling the strings, toying with human and mutant alike. And he's hungry - hungry in...
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The Graveyard Book
- Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9780747594802
- Published: 05-10-2009
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is al...
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X-Isle
- Steve Augarde
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780385610612
- Published: 01-10-2009
Ever since the floods came and washed the world away, survivors have been desperate to win a place on X Isle, the island where life is rumoured to be easier than on what's left of the mainland. Only young boys are in with a chance, the smaller and lighter the better. Baz and Ray are two of the...
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Ganglands: Brazil
- Ross Kemp
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- ISBN13: 9780141325897
- Published: 06-08-2009
Deep in the heart of Rio, a new gang has emerged in the favelas. A gang with a sinister reputation, heavy-duty weaponry and a seemingly limitless drug supply. Recruited by the shady organization Trojan Industries, teenage tearaway Luiz Alves must gain initiation, infiltrate the gang and find o...
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Stained
- Hichens Joanne
- Ransom Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781841677156
- Published: 23-07-2009
In a poor district on the outskirts of Cape Town, Grace lives with her adoptive mother, Martha. Of mixed race, Grace dreams about what her unknown, natural mother might be like, fantasizes about finding her, and is plagued by an intense sense of dislocation. Rebelling against her adoptive moth...
