Books - Teenagers

• Dan Smith, Chris King
• Barrington Stoke
• ISBN13: 9781800901308
• Published: 05-01-2023

A ground-breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith. When Pete, Krish and Nancy read a story in the local paper about weird gunk being found in a field where sheep have gone mi...

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• Roberto Piumini, Leah Janeczko
• Pushkin Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781782693819
• Published: 01-12-2022

Madurer is the son of a great lord, with untold wealth, but he is also the victim of a mysterious disease that means he cannot be exposed to sunlight or fresh air. He is confined to three windowless rooms inside a palace, but his doting father summons a famous artist to cover the walls of the...

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• Nicola Davies, Petr Horacek, Onjali Rauf
• Graffeg Limited
• ISBN13: 9781802583779
• Published: 22-11-2022

In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies’s text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horáček to provide insight into the real-life experiences of refugees forced to leave their homes and previous lives behind to face an unknown future. Suffused with compassio...

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• Richard Skrein
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9781911682561
• Published: 10-11-2022

A must-read for anyone with an adventurous spirit, a yen to whittle and chop, and a desire to get out into nature and play with sticks! These 50 achievable ideas for making and playing with sticks - all with beautiful step-by-step illustrations - make a great gift. The next title in Pav...

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• Michelle Paver
• Head of Zeus
• ISBN13: 9781789542455
• Published: 10-11-2022

Grand finale to the prize-winning adventure series that's changed the lives of millions of readers. Breathtaking world-building on an epic scale. Pure escapism at its best. It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing...

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• Marc ter Horst, Wendy Panders, Laura Watkinson, Dr Jennifer Gardy
• Greystone Books, Canada
• ISBN13: 9781771649735
• Published: 10-11-2022

Discover the extraordinary world of viruses, from their creation and transmission to what we can do to stop them, in this science-based resource for kids 8 to 12. If we didn't know it before, we certainly know it now: Viruses can be powerful-so powerful, in fact, that they can hold the world i...

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• Rainbow Rowell
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781529099119
• Published: 08-11-2022

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story collection Scattered Showers, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories - wrapped in a beautiful hardback gift package including two-colour illustrations an...

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• Fleur Hitchcock
• Nosy Crow Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781839945908
• Published: 03-11-2022

A gripping thriller for readers who like danger and mystery and chills and spills from the comfort of their sofas... Unputdownable. When Lucas and Ruby find an abandoned trunk covered in snow, Lucas says there's bound to be a body inside. Ruby laughs but what if he's right? Nervously sh...

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