Books - Young Adult

• Dirk Reinhardt, Michael Rosen, Rachel Ward
• Pushkin Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781782693093
• Published: 26-08-2021

When 16-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he feels the old man is haunted by a secret from his past. Sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read, Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. The diary tells how Josef left the Hitler Youth for a gang call...

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• Femi Fadugba
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780241505618
• Published: 19-08-2021

Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2022 and the Branford Boase Award 2022 for debut writers. One glimpse of a terrifying future.  One chance to change everything.After suffering a knock to the head, 15-year-old Esso experiences a chilling vision: that nig...

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• Patrice Lawrence
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444954777
• Published: 19-08-2021

From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery.  'I pick up the envelope . . . As I rip down the sides, there's loads of paper bursting out; stuck on flowers, dandelions, roses . . .'  Spey recently received two surprises. The first: his ex-prisoner dad turning...

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• Sarah Crossan
• Bloomsbury Children's books
• ISBN13: 9781526614858
• Published: 19-08-2021

'Here we are. And we are living. Isn't that amazing? How we manage to be here at all.'  Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two...

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• Robin Scott-Elliot
• Everything with Words
• ISBN13: 9781911427247
• Published: 12-08-2021

Thrilling new page turner by Robin Scott-Elliot author of The Tzar's Curious Runaways and The Acrobats of Agra. Paris, 1942. When Amelie Dreyfus hides in her mother's wardrobe it's a game; when she comes out it's a matter of life or death. With her family taken, Amelie has to fend for herself...

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• Naomi Gibson
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781913322014
• Published: 05-08-2021

The edge-of-your-seat thriller you've been looking for this summer ...  Lydia has been creating her AI, Henry, for years - since before her little brother died in the accident that haunts her nightmares; since before her dad walked out, leaving her and Mum painfully alone; since before her bes...

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• Bryony Pearce
• Little Tiger
• ISBN13: 9781788953214
• Published: 05-08-2021

They thought the island was the end. It was only the beginning... Having survived the horrors of Savage Island, Grady is now stuck working for Gold, the psychopath who masterminded the gruesome competition. Sent on a "team-building exercise" in a remote castle, he starts to plot his escape.  B...

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• Jeff Zentner
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781839130847
• Published: 05-08-2021

Winner of the ALAN Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award.  Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. I've always loved when the light finds the broken spots in the world and makes them beautiful . . . Cash's life in his small Tennessee town is hard. He lost his mom to an opioid addiction and his grand...

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