The Reluctant Hallelujah

Author	Claire Zorn
ISBN	0702249769

For Fin, it's just like any other day - racing for the school bus, bluffing his way through class, and trying to remain cool in front of the most sophisticated girl in his universe, Lucy. Only it's not like any other day because, on the other side of the world, nuclear missiles are being detonated.

When...

Author

Penni Russon

This city's crumbling to nothing, to rubble around me. I walk and walk and scour and soft and quarry. I find what's left.

Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside, Claire is broken, so she retreats into a dreamscape.

Clara's world has always been broken....

Author	Doug MacLeod
ISBN	0143203916

"You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather."
"Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers."

Thomas Timewell is sixteen and a gentleman. When he meets a body-snatcher called Plenitude, his whole life changes. He is pursued by cutthroats, a tattooed gypsy...

Author

Glenda Millard

This complex and haunting exploration of life on the edge and what it takes to triumph over adversity is a story about the indomitable nature of hope.

Two young boys, an old tramp, a beautiful teenage dancer, and the girl's baby-ragtag survivors of a sudden war-form a fragile family, hiding...

Author

Mark Smith

Alternate cover edition for 9781925355123

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company.

He has stayed alive for two winters—hunting and fishing...

Author	Tristan Bancks
ISBN	0857982036

One afternoon, police officers show up at Ben Silver’s front door. Minutes after they leave, his parents arrive home. Ben and his little sister Olive are bundled into the car and told they’re going on a holiday. But are they?

It doesn’t take long for Ben to realise that his parents are in...