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After Life
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 January 2025;Genre: Bereavement
Cycling home after school one day, Amber Crane notices a few things are different; however, nothing prepares her for the shock of her mother screaming in horror when she sees her. Amber should be dead. Victim of a hit-and-run seven years ago. Her death sent shockwaves of grief through her fami...
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Girl, Ultra-Processed: A bold, body-positive YA about friendship, dating and self-love.
Name: Linda Brown
16 January 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Girl, Ultra-Processed is a 'no holds barred' look at diet culture and how it can affect your mind, and how young girls compare themselves to the 'perfect' images they find online. The book also looks at the negative consequences of social media, especially dating apps… ...
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Saint-Seducing Gold: The second book in the swashbuckling YA historical fantasy series
Name: Linda Brown
15 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Saint-Seducing Gold is the second book of the stunning YA historical fantasy, The Forge and Fracture Saga series by bestselling author Ayana Gray - beginning with That Self-Same Metal - and which has been called 'noth...
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Twenty-Four Seconds From Now: A Regular Love Story
Name: Eileen Armstrong
13 January 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Twenty four seconds into Twenty-Four Seconds From Now, you know you're reading something very special, refreshingly different and something with real teen appeal. Twenty four seconds from now, 17-year -old Neon will take a huge step forward in his relationship with his girlfri...
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Let the Light In
Name: Eileen Armstrong
13 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
When 17-year-old Leah finds herself holding her family together after the death of her dad, she finds escape in a risky and secretive love affair with a married man who makes her feel like a goddess. Her younger brother, Charlie, tries to escape his grief and solve his problem...
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The Party: The New York Times best-selling YA thriller
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 January 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
When Bessie and her friends decide to attend a secret party at a remote and desolate castle, they are looking forward to a brilliant weekend. However, things quickly start to go wrong and as the weather worsens, one of their number dies…followed by another…and another… Left suspecting everyone...
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The Wilderness of Girls
Name: Sam
09 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
At first glance, this debut YA novel appears to be a fantastical fairytale but is in fact a rather dark and emotionally fraught story of the wild girls. The Wilderness of Girls' themes are hard hitting and include PTSD, suicide, eating disorders, family and domestic violence,...
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Let the Light In
Name: Clare Wilkins
02 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
In Let the Light In, Leah's in love and woefully naïve; Charlie's an innocent who has got in way over his head, and only Abby is young enough to be relatively unaffected by the turmoil that has followed their father's untimely death. With their mother housebound suffering unsp...
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The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire
Name: Lorraine Ansell
19 November 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Robin Hood and Marian have made the forest their home and scores of outlaws have joined them to prepare for battle with the Sherriff of Nottingham. Able to steal a small moment of peace among the skirmishes with the sheriff's ever-emboldened men, Robin and Marian dream of a da...
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Crying Wolf
Name: Clare Wilkins
15 November 2024;Genre: Real life
Joey is trying to get his life back on track after the disappearance of his step-father and a descent into drugs and petty criminality. Lured by his devotion to his step-father, he got himself involved in situations way beyond his control, with people he would rather forget. But now he has a j...
