The Road of the Dead

Author

Jenny Valentine

Me: Lucas Swain: I'm nearly sixteen years old and live in London. I was fairly normal until the night I found Violet. Then everything changed. The Missing: Dad. He disappeared five years ago. Nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares except me. It's enough to drive you crazy. The Dead: That's...

Author	Cecil Castellucci
ISBN	0763630667

Dad’s an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter’s a buttoned-up neat freak who’d rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved?

Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending...

Author

David Almond

Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They’re full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him—maybe some of their good nature...

Author	K.L. Going
ISBN	0152057951

I am not so bad a person once you get to know me.
    
When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and the phone's been disconnected, so even the social worker can't get through. Leaving his public...

Author	Brian James
ISBN	0606296115

There is a girl named Chan, she lives on the streets in New York. She ran away from home because of her step-mother. While living on the streets, Chan met a young 6 year old girl that ran away from her home because her father abused her. They took care of each other as if they were sisters. They had a problem raising...

Author	Keith Gray
ISBN	0099456575

'It's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.'

Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the...

Author	Ann Bausum
ISBN	0792241738

Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders...

Author	Daniel Kraus
ISBN	0385737335

This fast-paced read will keep readers on the edge of their seats!

Someone is killing boys in a small town. The murder weapon is a truck, and the only protection is a curfew enacted to keep kids off the streets. But it’s summer—and that alone is worth the risk of staying out late for James, Willie,...

Author	Charlie Price
ISBN	1596431148

Murray, a loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery, hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. But who believes him? He's a loser. Can he even believe in himself? Also comes Pearl, the daughter of the cemetery caretaker, who...

Author

Zoran Drvenkar

Teen gothic horror from a new German author--sure to send chills down your spine!

Berlin, Christmas, the dead of night: 16-year-old Alissa and her best friend, Evelin, are making their annual secret pilgrimage to the grave of Alissa's father when Alissa falls through thick snow to land in...

Author	Laura McNeal
ISBN	0375831061

A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

Sixteen-year-old Lana Morris wishes her life were different: her Ice Queen of a foster mother won't leave her alone, and she has no friends but the other foster kids she takes care of.

Then...

Author	Eireann Corrigan
ISBN	0439832438

Family secrets and school secrets entwine in an engaging new novel from the author of You Remind Me of You, and Splintering.

Sometimes when life haunts you, you're better off becoming the ghost. Emil Simon feels invisible enough. He counts as a nonentity at his elite preparatory school and...

Author	Phil Earle
ISBN	0141331356

Being Billy is the award-winning first novel by Phil Earle.

***Heroic, Phil Earle's hugely anticipated third novel is out on 24 April 2013***

Faces flashed before my eyes.
And for every face there was a time that they had let me down.
Each punch that landed was revenge, my chance...

Author	Melvin Burgess
ISBN	1842701800

Sara is going to have a face transplant. She has allowed herself to be drawn into the orbit of a highly manipulative and ruthless pop-star. He is going to take her discarded face to cover his own scarred and damaged one. But as the time of the operation approaches, those closest to her suspect that Sara is...

Author	Ally Kennen
ISBN	0439865492

Stephen hasn't had it easy. He's now in foster care because his mom is crazy and his dad is an ex-con. He's always in trouble or on his way to trouble. But none of these problems compare to the problem of The Beast.
Stephen has been taking care of The Beast for years. It is his biggest secret --...

Author	Keren David
ISBN	1847801013

Ruthless killers are still hunting Ty. The police move him and his mum to a quiet seaside town. But a horrific attack and a bullet meant for Ty prove that he's not safe yet.

On the road again, Ty's in hiding with complete strangers... who seem to know a lot about him. Meanwhile he's desperate to see...

Author

Chris Higgins

Anna's bruised and upset by the collapse of her parents' marriage. So much of the fallout - including responsibility for her wayward younger sister - seems to be heading in her direction. All she wants is to get the exam results she needs to get herself to university - and away from this mess. She certainly...

Author	David Levithan
ISBN	0439890284

An anthology of new writing from the authors published over the first five years of PUSH, timed for the fifth anniversary in February 2007.

contributing authors:
Patricia McCormick, Kevin Brooks, Chris Wooding, Markus Zusak, Brian James, Kristen Kemp,Eireann Corrigan, Christopher...

Author	Anne Cassidy
ISBN	1407104047

Overall, I really liked this book. The very first chapter was confusing, but as I read the book I could see how it led up and linked back to the beginning. This book really gripped me and dug it's claws in deep- I read it in exactly one day.I had so much that I needed to get done that day, but the book simply wouldn't...

Author	William Sleator
ISBN	0810987902

When seventeen-year-old Ken's best friend Roger dies in a plane crash, Ken suddenly realizes that he too could die at any moment. Terrified, he seeks out a plump, middle-aged psychic named Cherie Buttercup, who grants him invulnerability from death in exchange for his soul. Eager to test his new powers,...

Author	Michael Benanav
ISBN	1592287727

This book is amazing! Men of Salt is a role model of what every travel book should be, an exotic fairy tale, but real.
This book is amazing! I know I said it before, but I need to say it again - AMAZING! Men of Salt is informative without being overwhelming, imaginative without being falsifying, descriptive...

Author	Morgan Burke
ISBN	0689872275

the party room.On Manhattan's Upper East Side. Everybody's fabulous. No one gets carded. Then someone dies.

The Prep School Killer is dead. Finally Kirsten can go on and leave the nightmare of her best friend Sam's murder behind her. Kirsten's at NYU now, but she still slips back to the Party...