Books - Teenagers

• Ness Patrick
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406310252
• Published: 05-05-2008

This is an unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans...Todd Hewitt is just one...

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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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• Eva Ibbotson
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330397155
• Published: 02-05-2008

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon disc...

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• Ms. Shannon Hale
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9780747589235
• Published: 03-03-2008

When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious. So furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she can take her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt...

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• Dean Lorey
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780007257195
• Published: 03-03-2008

Hogwarts meets Men in Black in a thrilling comic adventure about a very gifted boy who joins a monster fighting academy. Charlie Benjamin is not like other children - when he sleeps he has terrible nightmares, and when he wakes it is to find his room has been wrecked. Then one day he wa...

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• Terry Deary, Martin Brown
• Scholastic
• ISBN13: 9781407103051
• Published: 01-03-2008

From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were tu...

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• Eva Ibbotson
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780330444996
• Published: 05-10-2007

Ruth lives in the beautiful city of Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist. But her world is about to change forever. When Hitler's forces invade Ruth's family flees to London, but she is unable to get a passport. Quin, a young professor and friend of t...

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• Geraldine McCaughrean, David Wyatt
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192726216
• Published: 04-10-2007

Something is wrong in Neverland. Dreams are leaking out - strangely real dreams, of pirates and mermaids, of war paint and crocodiles. For Wendy and the Lost Boys it is a clear signal - Peter Pan needs their help, and so it is time to do the unthinkable and fly to Neverland again. But back in...

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