Books - Young Adult

• 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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• Patrice Lawrence
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781444927184
• Published: 13-07-2017

The breathtaking second book from the author of Orangeboy, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the YA Book Prize, the CrimeFest award, and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award . 17-year-old Indigo has had a tough start in life, having grown up in the care...

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• Will Hill
• Usborne Publishing Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781474924153
• Published: 01-06-2017

Father John controls everything inside The Fence. And Father John likes rules. Especially about never talking to Outsiders. Because Father John knows the truth. He knows what is right, and what is wrong. He knows what is coming. But Moonbeam is starting to see the lies behind Father John's wor...

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• Becky Albertalli
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141356112
• Published: 11-04-2017

I don't entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances . . . Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells...

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• Alex Wheatle
• Little, Brown Book Group
• ISBN13: 9780349002880
• Published: 06-04-2017

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE 2016Round these ends, it's hard to hold on to your dreamsLife's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend Lloyd is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraug...

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• Angie Thomas
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406372151
• Published: 06-04-2017

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018.  Winner of the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards.  #1 New York Times bestseller.  A Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year.  A major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg.  Sixteen-year-old Starr lives...

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• Kenneth Oppel, Jon Klassen
• David Fickling Books
• ISBN13: 9781910200872
• Published: 06-04-2017

"The first time I saw them, I thought they were angels." The baby is sick. Mom and Dad are sad. And all Steve has to do is say, "Yes" to fix everything. But yes is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back?  Treading the thin line between dreams...

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