Books - Young Adult

• David Almond
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9780340997048
• Published: 19-03-2009

When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel,...

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• Joseph Delaney
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9781862308534
• Published: 05-03-2009

'Someone has to stand against the dark. And you're the only one who can.' For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried ...Some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Just...

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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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• 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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• 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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• Geraldine McCaughrean
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192726186
• Published: 07-09-2006

Captain Titus Oates, hero of the Antarctic, has been dead for nearly a century. But not in Sym's head. In there, he is her constant companion, her soul mate, her adviser. It is as if he walked out of the Polar blizzard and into her mind. In fact, if it were not for Titus, life might be as blea...

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• Sarah Singleton
• Simon & Schuster
• ISBN13: 9781416901358
• Published: 07-03-2005

Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one day, Mercy is woken to find a snowdrop on her p...

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