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Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Bloods are in control and they?re desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see - right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call abnormal is a target. Amidst the chaos of civil war the country is on the move as small militia groups fight each other and a sea of refugees escapes the cities and the pursuing Bloods. When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Marti must strike out on a mission of her own - to save her father...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ?Boys just being boys? turns out to be true only when those boys are white.��Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid?s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn?t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to�the�refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change...
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Winner of the Tonight Show Summer Reads with Jimmy Fallon. Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Z�lie remembers when the soil of Or�sha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled - Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning waves, and Z�lie?s Reaper mother summoning...
4) Perfect
Author
Series
Flawed volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that?s when we can finally become PERFECT?Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely fractured - all her freedoms gone. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run...
Author
Series
The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Farshore
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
The second book in the thrilling middle grade mystery series, perfect for fans of Robin Steven?s Murder Most Unladylike. Set in eighteenth-century London, with all the fun and zest of Hamilton and inspired by real Black British historical figures. The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger has been shortlisted for the Waterstones 2023 Children?s Book Prize! Agents of history. Partners in Mystery. Sisters in solving crime. Twelve-year-olds Lizzie...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Widowed just two days after her unwilling marriage to a man twice her age, Marnie finds herself an outsider in the remote seaside village of Torcurra. Spurned by the townsfolk who suspect her involvement in her husband's death, she has only two friends - the local priest and the madman known as Raver, even more of an outcast than Marnie herself. Then Marnie makes a remarkable discovery about Raver, whom she dubs Raven, and the two forge a deep bond...
Author
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood. For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker,...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Frank Li is a high school senior living in Southern California. Frank's parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much one big rule for Frank - he must only date Korean girls. But he's got strong feelings for a girl in his class, Brit - and she's not Korean. His friend Joy Song is in the same boat and knows her parents will never accept her boyfriend, so they make a pact: they'll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. David...
10) Catfish rolling
Author
Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling caused an earthquake so powerful it cracked time itself. It destroyed her home and took her mother. Now Sora and her scientist father live close to the zones - the wild and...
Author
Series
Ministry of Unladylike Activity volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Description
The start of a thrilling new Second World War mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike. 1940. Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. Enter May Wong: courageous, stubborn, and desperate to help end the war so that she can go home to Hong Kong (and leave her annoying school, Deepdean, behind forever)....
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Meixing Lim and her family have arrived in the New Land to begin a New Life. Everything is scary and different. Their ever-changing house is confusing and she finds it hard to understand the other children at school. Yet in her magical glasshouse, with a strange black-and-white cat, Meixing finds a place to dream. But then Meixing's life comes crashing down in unimaginable ways. Only her two new and unexpected friends can help. By being brave together,...
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