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Meg Rosoff
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. It seems like the perfect summer. Falling in love is just the start of it but their lives are about to explode. War breaks out and lands on their doorstep. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy, careless, self-obsessed, sex-mad - and about to meet Lucy, the most beautiful girl on earth. Unfortunately, whenever Bob falls in love, disaster follows. Let us pray that Bob does not fall in love with Lucy.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow. The road ahead is rich with longing, silence and secrets, and each encounter leads her closer to the untold story of her past.
8) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. Suddenly every moment is fizzing with significance, full of what ifs? He must hide, become an entirely new person to escape fate - if he can. Bewildered and obsessive, he'll try anything to survive.
10) What I was
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Haunting, intense and with a surprising twist in the tale - this is unlike anything you will have read before.
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Meet Jumpy Jack, a very nervous snail who is afraid of monsters, and Googily who is a very good friend indeed. Wherever they go, Googily kindly checks high and low just to make sure there are no scary monsters about. But, as every child knows, monsters come in many shapes and sizes.
13) Beck
Author
Language
English
Description
Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African sailor in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sent to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. Shipped to work on a farm, his escape takes him across the continent in a search for belonging. Enduring abuse...