Books - Young Adult

• Jennifer Mathieu
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444940633
• Published: 21-09-2017

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mum was a...

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• Jonathan Stroud
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780552575799
• Published: 21-09-2017

Want to hear a ghost story? That's good. I know a few . . .After their recent adventures, the Lockwood & Co team deserve a well-earned break . . . so naturally they decide to risk their lives breaking into a heavily-guarded crypt. A building full of unsettled souls, it's also t...

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• Sif Sigmarsdottir
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444934472
• Published: 07-09-2017

At the end of the world, who can you trust? The story of one teen's fight against an extra-terrestrial invasion. For fans of Michael Grant, Suzanne Collins and Robert Muchamore. London has been targeted by extra-terrestrial life and victims are transported to a terrifying other world.</...

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• Sally Nicholls
• Andersen Press Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781783445257
• Published: 07-09-2017

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize. Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the figh...

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• Alex Bell
• Little Tiger Press Group
• ISBN13: 9781847158406
• Published: 07-09-2017

The much-anticipated prequel to the bestselling FROZEN CHARLOTTE.  Following the death of her mother in a terrible fire, Jemima flees to the remote Isle of Skye, to take up a job at a school for girls. There she finds herself tormented by the mystery of what really happened that night. ...

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• Benjamin Zephaniah
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408895009
• Published: 07-09-2017

An electrifying novel from hugely popular performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, exploring the rap music scene, inequality and three boys caught up in it Just what do you do with talent from the wrong side of town? Benjamin Zephaniah draws on his own experiences with school a...

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• Krystal Sutherland
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471406614
• Published: 05-09-2017

A funny, moving love story about facing fears hand in hand - one snake/spider/potentially unstable fourth-floor balcony at a time. From acclaimed author of OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS, Krystal Sutherland.Esther Solar's family is . . . unusual. Her father hasn't left the basement in six yea...

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• M. A. Bennett
• Hot Key Books
• ISBN13: 9781471406768
• Published: 10-08-2017

It is the autumn term and Greer MacDonald is struggling to settle into the sixth form at the exclusive St Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as S.T.A.G.S. To her surprise Greer receives a mysterious invitation with three words embossed upon on it: huntin' shootin'...

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