Teenage Fiction List
Out of The Blue - Val Rutt
One beautiful spring evening, Kitty Danby meets Sammy Ray Bailey, a handsome young American pilot stationed nearby. Sixteen-year-old Kitty and Sammy quickly fall in love and, for a few precious weeks, the future holds a promise of happiness for which Kitty hardly dares hope.
But it is 1944 and a tragic incident changes everything, leading to a web of secrets and misunderstandings which will only be unravelled years later...
£6.99
Blade - Tim Bowler
This thrilling new series for teenagers combines an enormously likable and engaging central character with the harsh realities of street life and the youth gang culture that is so prevalent in today's news. The mysteries and cliffhanger endings of these short, accessible books will have the power to tempt all readers as they gradually become absorbed into Blade's dangerous world. This is book one.
ISBN 9780192754844
£5.99
The Summer that Changed Everything
Three girls. One summer. Their friendship to salvage ...Ama, desperate to live up to her family's expectations, finds herself on an outdoor adventure summer camp. Tomboy, loner Polly discovers that her grandmother used to be a model and decides she's going to follow in her footsteps - even if it means starving herself to get thin. Jo's parents are still grieving the death of her older brother and she's stuck in the middle of their messy divorce.
ISBN 9780552560986
£5.99
My So-Called Afterlife - Tamsyn Murray
Fifteen-year-old Lucy has been stuck in the men's loos since she was murdered six months ago and Jeremy is the first person who's been able to see or hear her. Once he's foudn a way to leave the loos, she's soon meeting other ghosts. But the most important thing is to find her murderer...
ISBN 9781848120570
£6.99
Chalkline - Jane Mitchell
It's an ordinary morning at nine-year-old Rafiq's school in rural Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers is ripped apart by gunfire. Soldiers of the Kashmir Freedom Fighters scrawl a line in chalk across the schoolroom wall, and any boy who is as tall as the line will be taken to fight. Rafiq is tall for his age - the first boy to cross the chalkline into a life of brutality and terrorism. This is the story of Rafiq's transformation from child to boy soldier, as he is indoctrinated into the cause of fanatical belief.
ISBN 9781406315172
£5.99
Comin 2 gt U - Simon Packham
Sam Tennant is killed in an online computer game. What's worse, it looks like his killers are out to get him in real life too. "The Emporer" and "Ollyg78" say they are from his school, and with his parents not around, the threats on his life get worse. Sam needs to find out the killers' real identity before something really deadly happens.
ISBN 9781848120952
£5.99
Thirteen Reasons Why... - Jay Asher
Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box, with his name on it, lying on the porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did - and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list - and it'll change Clay's life forever.
ISBN 9780141328294
£6.99
Junk - Melvin Burgess
This is an uncompromising, compelling and true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction. This tour de force by an acclaimed and provocative writer should become a definitive teenage novel on this subject.
ISBN 9780141315935
£6.99
Private - Kate Brian
The good, the bad and the beautiful...When Reed Brennan arrives at Easton Academy, she discovers that everyone is more sophisticated, more gorgeous and a whole lot wealthier than she is. She feels like an outsider, looking in ...until she meets the Billings Girls, the most beautiful, intelligent and powerful girls on campus. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle. But once she's in, she discovers there's more to the Girls' closets than designer clothes - they're hiding skeletons too ...and secrets which must be kept PRIVATE. Whatever the cost
ISBN 9781416932437
£5.99
Carbon Diaries 2015 - Saci Lloyd
It's January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing, in a drastic bid to combat climate change. As her family spirals out of control, Laura Brown chronicles the first year of rationing with scathing abandon. Will her mother become one with her inner wolf? Will her sister give up her weekends in Ibiza? Does her father love the pig more than her? Can her band the dirty angels make it big? And will Ravi Datta ever notice her? In these dark days, Laura deals with the issues that really matter: love, floods and pigs. The Carbon Diaries 2015 is one girl's drastic bid to stay sane in a world unravelling at the seams
ISBN 9780340970157
£6.99
A Little Piece of Ground - Elizabeth Laird
12-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs to play football with his mates - being stuck inside with his teenage brother and fearful parents is driving him crazy. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that's the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed buildings makes a brilliant den. But in this city there's constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew it seems impossible that he will survive...
ISBN 9780330437431
£5.99
Lifted - Hilary Freeman
Robyn is a compulsive shoplifter, but everything she steals, she donates to charity. Then she writes about it in her blog. The blog makes her famous, just like Robin Hood, but what price does she pay for the fame that she craves?
ISBN 9781848120686
£6.99
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