Books - Young Adult

• Ruta Sepetys
• Penguin Random House
• ISBN13: 9780141347400
• Published: 04-02-2016

WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2017It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforge...

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• Holly Bourne
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781409591221
• Published: 01-02-2016

All Amber wants is a little bit of love. Her mum has never been the caring type, even before she moved to California, got remarried and had a personality transplant. But Amber's hoping that spending the summer with her can change all that.And then there's prom king Kyle, the guy al...

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• Kathryn Evans
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781474903028
• Published: 01-02-2016

Teva's life seems normal: school, friends, boyfriend. But at home she hides an impossible secret. Eleven other Tevas.Because once a year, Teva separates into two, leaving a younger version of herself stuck at the same age, in the same house...watching the new Teva live the life that she'd been...

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• Keris Stainton
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471405129
• Published: 05-11-2015

When a town's Christmas wishes get mixed-up, can one little girl and her dog put them right?The little town of Pinewood can't wait for Christmas this year. They're going to celebrate by putting up a giant Christmas tree in the town square, and asking all the townspeople to hang a Christmas wis...

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• Jonathan Stroud
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552573146
• Published: 24-09-2015

Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambollic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard...

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• Dave Shelton
• David Fickling Books
• ISBN13: 9781910200445
• Published: 03-09-2015

Jack stands in the dark on the landing of the old house, and looks at his feet - He has been here for minutes, his hand on the door handle, debating whether or not to go in. A high-ceilinged room lit only by candles. Thirteen chairs, one empty. Twelve ghostly storytellers, waiting to begin. Co...

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• Sarah Mussi
• Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910240342
• Published: 01-09-2015

Ellie Morgan wants a boy who's all hers. Just for once, it would be nice to meet someone that Sheila (the cow) hadn't got her claws in to.   A remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon is hardly the ideal setting for meeting anyone unless, of course, you count her best friend George or creepy Darren (...

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• Siobhan Dowd
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9781909531178
• Published: 30-07-2015

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubl...

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