Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 9 YA
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can't understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She'd always imagined she would end up with Zach one day - in the ...Show more
Category: Young Adult | Series: Crongton
Living on the South Crongton council estate has its worries - and life for McKay has been even tougher since his mum died. His dad has been working all hours to keep the bailiffs from their door. His brother is always out riding the streets at night, tempting trouble. And now, having strayed off his ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
'An electric debut' New York Times 'Exhilarating' Claire Messud 'Deeply affecting' Salman Rushdie A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public ...Show more
Category: Young Adult | Series: Felix & Zelda | Reading Level: very good
Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one day come back to get him. When Nazi soldiers come to the orphanage Felix decides to escape and make his way home.
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Enemy
Keep moving. Keep fighting. Stay Alive.The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry.Sickos swarm the streets of London. Gathered in the centre of the city, they lie in wait. The survivors have one fi ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm going to Switzerland to find their mother. Tell them to follow as soon as they canâe(tm) Having lost their parents in the chaos of war, Ruth, Edek and Bronia are left alone to fend for themselves and hide from the Nazis amid the rubble a ...Show more
Category: Young Adult | Series: Harry Potter | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
'It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities'Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter can't wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts. Returning to the castle nevertheless, ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
On June 28 1969, around one o'clock in the morning, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, New York... What happened that night would come to be a defining moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and for queer people everywhere. From the impassioned speeches of bold ac ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
Enter the players. Michael. Dark and brooding. Causes girls to swoon u especially when he makes butterflies appear from thin air. Caitlin. Michael's stepsister. As light as he is dark. The weird one who no one talks to. Why concern yourself with friends when you have a greater destiny to fulfil? Gabe. C ...Show more
Category: Young Adult | Series: Wilder Trilogy | Reading Level: 9 YA
Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast—more than surviving: they’re enjoying the surf, the summer and being together. And now, the lights of Wentworth mean life could soon be back to normal. Finn is cautiously optimistic, but Kas knows she can never escape her status as a Siley, and that a ...Show more
Category: Young Adult
New edition of multi-award-winning author Libby Gleeson's powerful first novel, which was first published in 1984. Featuring a new introduction by the author, it is illustrated with sensitive line drawings by Beattie Alvarez. Twelve year old Eleanor doesn't want to move from her home in the cool New Eng ...Show more
Category: Young Adult | Series: Cherub | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
The sixteenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! Fay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. Now she's back on the street, looking to settle old scores. CHERUB agents Ryan and Ning need Fay's know ...Show more
