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1) Kite spirit
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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During the summer of her GCSEs Kite's world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with pressure. Kite's dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and space to grieve. Kite senses Dawn's spirit around her and is consumed by powerful, confusing emotions: anger, guilt, sadness and frustration.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Baskerville family has been haunted for generations by a fearsome hound - a phantom beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws. Surely it is just a legend? Then Sir Charles is found dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall. Now it is time to bring in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to discover the truth about the family curse.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Tamarind never knew her Indian mum, Chinty, who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she's full of questions for her extended family. But instead of answers, she finds an ominous silence - and a trickle of intriguing clues: an abandoned hut, a friendly monkey, a glowing star ring, and a strange girl in the garden who calls herself Ishta. Slowly, Tamarind...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her, to play Batman to her Robin, whatever the cost. But when you're 14 and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk. Even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much magic, or sleep. But somewhere, there's a tangled ball of evil and spite that has woken up.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
It tackles the aftermath of teen suicide from the critically acclaimed young adult author Jay Asher - perfect for fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home to find a strange package with his name on it. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and first love - who committed...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When Cameron Post?s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they?ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn?t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending...
11) Flawed / perfect
Author
Series
Flawed volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
She?s a model daughter and sister, she?s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she?s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive decision. Will she be branded as FLAWED? Will all her freedoms be gone?In a society where perfection is paramount and mistakes are punished, one young woman takes a stand that could cost her everything. But can she prove that to be human in...
12) The wren hunt
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Every year on St Stephen's Day, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are judges - a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur - their sworn enemy - the game would be up. This year, the tension between judges and augurs is at breaking point. Wren's survival, and that of her family, depends on her becoming a spy in the midst of...
13) The wee free men
Author
Series
Discworld Novels volume 30
Publisher
RHCP Digital
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin',...
Author
Series
Discworld Novels volume 32
Publisher
RHCP Digital
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die . . . Wise, witty and wonderful, A Hat Full of Sky is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany and the Wee Free Men - the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever. They'll fight anything. And even they might not be enough to...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Language
English
Description
Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...
16) Toffee
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Language
English
Description
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who...
17) The mime order
Author
Series
The Bone Season volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the internationally bestselling 'The Bone Season', Paige Mahoney escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but now her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage,...
Author
Series
Discworld Novels volume 28
Language
English
Description
IT'S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD . . . Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .
19) Throne of glass
Author
Series
A Throne of Glass Novel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Celaena Sardothien is a daredevil assassin with unrivalled fighting skills. After a year's hard labour in the salt mines of the kingdom of Endovier, Celaena is offered her freedom on one condition - she must fight as handsome Prince Dorian's champion in a contest sponsored by the king.
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This is arguably the greatest YA fantasy series ever. It is perfection and I believe everyone that reads YA fantasy should read this series!
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Author
Series
The Normal volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
All Amber wants is a little bit of love. Her mum has never been the caring type, even before she moved to California, got remarried and had a personality transplant. But Amber?s hoping that spending the summer with her can change all that. And then there?s Kyle, the most American person Amber?s ever met. She can?t help liking him. But can he really be interested in her? Even with best friends Evie and Lottie?s advice, Amber?s finding love is hard....
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