Books - Young Adult

• Deirdre Sullivan
• Little Island
• ISBN13: 9781912417117
• Published: 18-10-2018

Paperback edition of bestselling book from 2017, with a bonus story in this edition. A collection of 13 dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales from one of Ireland's leading writers for young people. In the tradition of Angela Carter, stories such as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin...

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• Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli
• Simon & Schuster Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781471176395
• Published: 18-10-2018

Love Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper? Meet Arthur and Ben! From INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING authors Adam Silvera (They Both Die At The End) and Becky Albertalli (Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda) comes a long-awaited collaboration about two very different boys who can't decide if the univers...

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• Malcolm Duffy
• Head of Zeus
• ISBN13: 9781786697653
• Published: 04-10-2018

'It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.' Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love.  Danny's mam has a new boyfrien...

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• Holly Bourne
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781474933612
• Published: 09-08-2018

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at "normality" for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for her new friends, who are all dealing with their own battles. But as Olive settles in, she starts to wonder - maybe it's this messed up world that needs fixing,...

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• Melvin Burgess
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781783446902
• Published: 02-08-2018

Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the rare powers of a witch. They warn her she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. All Bea wants to do is...

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• Jason Reynolds, Chris Priestley
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571335121
• Published: 02-08-2018

SHORTLISTED for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, WINNER of the UKLA.  'A masterpiece from beginning to end.' Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give. AND THEN THERE WERE SHOTS Everybody ran, ducked, hid, tucked themselves tight. Pressed our lips to the pavement and prayed the boom, followed by...

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• Holly Black
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471407277
• Published: 26-07-2018

First in the bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. The sequels - The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing - won the Goodreads YA Best Fantasy in 2019 and 2020. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. "Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divin...

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• Sarah Crossan
• Bloomsbury YA
• ISBN13: 9781408867815
• Published: 12-07-2018

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear?  Cos people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies.  I need you to know the truth.'  Joe hasn't seen his brother for ten years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.  But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Jo...

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