What I Was

Author	Siobhan Dowd
ISBN	0375849718

Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.

Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on...

Author	Julie Hearn
ISBN	0192792156

It is September 1939 and Rowan Scrivener, 13, is in the fight of his life and it has nothing to do the war between England and Germany and everything to do with the state of his sanity. Rowan has always been a little ‘strange’ but now he is hearing voices in his head. They are getting louder and stronger...

Author	Simmone Howell
ISBN	1599900424

Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending Spirit Ranch, a Christian camp. There she meets Dylan Kier, alumni camper and recent paraplegic, who arrives with a chip on his shoulder and a determination to perfect all of his bad habits. United in their personal suffering and in their...

Author	Christopher Currie
ISBN	1925240401

We’re sitting there with matching milkshakes, Sasha and me, and somehow, things aren’t going like I always thought they would. We’re face to face under 24-hour fluorescents with the thoroughly unromantic buzz of aircon in our ears and endless flabby wedges of seated trucker’s arsecrack...

Author

Mari Strachan

Every night, 12-year-old Gwenni Morgan flies in her sleep. She leaves the bed she shares with her sister and soars into the night sky, listening to the nighttime sounds of her small Welsh village below. Irrepressible Gwenni -- a dreamer full of unanswerable questions and unbounded curiosity -- is childlike...

Author

Sanne Näsling

Folk i skolan säger att Lovely är sjuk i huvudet. Men Mary älskar henne över allt annat. För Mary och Lovely är livet ett krig mot en sorglig tillvaro. De är brådmoget intellektuella och barnsligt lekfulla. Tillsammans vet de att det alltid är bättre att dö än att kapitulera för det normalvidriga....

Author	Sita Brahmachari
ISBN	1447205189

4.5 stars. But so close to 5 you could almost taste it. :-D

The number of British YA books I read last year was shocking and this made me sad because when I grow up [I’ll get there…eventually] I want to be an author.
And I’m, well, I’m British.
So why wasn’t I making more of an effort...

Author	Laura McNeal
ISBN	0375830987

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List

When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering...

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	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	Kate le Vann
ISBN	1853408360

Tessa at sixteen, is pretty, but terribly shy and under-confident. Her best friend Matty is much more popular, not to mention more successful with boys. Tessa loves roaming the local parkland and often goes there for walks with the family dog. When developers threaten to destroy this, for the first...

Author	Sonya Hartnett
ISBN	0763647608

Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, and at ease. The strength of the objects she stores in a briefcase under her bed —a crystal lamb, a yoyo, an antique watch, a coin...

Author	Kevin Brooks
ISBN	0141326115

London, 1976: a summer of chaos, punk, love . . . and the boy they called Billy the Kid.

It was the summer of so many things. Heat and violence, love and hate, heaven and hell. It was the time I met William Bonney - the boy from Belfast known as Billy the Kid.

I've kept William's secrets for...

Author

Belinda Jeffrey

You don’t get many crocodiles in Manchester. I know, I know, I should have warnings when I drop bombs like that, shouldn’t I? I hope you weren’t drinking or anything… apologies if your computer is now a bit damp.
I think the closest I’ve ever come to a crocodile was on a school trip to Chester...

Author	Mark A. Roeder
ISBN	0595362346

Outfield Menace is the tale of Kurt, a fifteen-year-old baseball player, and living in a small, 1950s, Indiana town. During a confrontation with Angel, the resident bad boy of Blackford High School, Kurt attacks Angel, earning the wrath of the most dangerous gang in town. When Angel finally corners...

Author	Sally Nicholls
ISBN	1407121723

A deadly contagion races through England...

Isabel and her family have nowhere to run from a disease that has killed half of Europe. When the world she knows and loves ends forever, her only weapon is courage.

The Black Death of 1349 was the deadliest plague in human history. All Fall...

Author	Catherine Bruton
ISBN	1405256524

A moving, funny, explosive debut, and a truly memorable voice. Includes the protagonist's eight-page manga comic at the end.

My dad was killed in the 9/11 attacks. But the stuff in this book isn't about that. It's about the summer my mom went away. The summer that me and Jed and Priti tried to catch...

Author	Jenny Valentine
ISBN	0007283598

A stunning new look for the irresistible novel from Guardian-award-winning novelist, Jenny Valentine.


Number 33 Georgiana Street houses many people and yet seems home to none. To runaway Sam it is a place to disappear. To Bohemia, it's just another blip between crises, as her mum ricochets...

Author	Shawn Stewart Ruff
ISBN	1604023953

I love Cliffy! He is thoughtful, intelligent, sympathetic, and kind in a sea of ugliness and hatred.

Finlater is set in the projects of Cincinnati in the barely post-segregation 1970s. The 13-year-old spelling champion and hero of this book enchanted me from the start. Intelligent Cliffy...

Author	Anthony McGowan
ISBN	0385738226

Paul Vanderman could be at any normal high school where bullies, girls, and annoying teachers are just part of life. But “normal” doesn’t apply when it comes to the school’s biggest bully, Roth—a twisted and threatening thug with an evil agenda.

When Paul ends up delivering a message...

Author	Keith Gray
ISBN	1849390991

A collection of fiction short stories by leading teen writers about losing your virginity

Including Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, and Mary Hooper, some of today's leading writers for teens are gathered here in a wonderful collection...

Author	Melvin Burgess
ISBN	0141335645

Everyone says fourteen-year-old Billie is nothing but trouble. A fighter. A danger to her family and friends. But her care worker sees someone different. Her classmate Rob is big, strong; he can take care of himself and his brother. But his violent stepdad sees someone to humiliate. And Chris is struggling...

Author

Carolina Setterwall

"Den sista gången jag säger god natt till dig vet jag inte att det är sista gången jag gör det. Om jag hade vetat det hade jag förmodligen lagt mer energi i avskedet. I stället säger jag att jag tror att jag går och lägger mig hos Ivan snart. Du protesterar inte. Med blicken fäst vid din dator låter...

Author	Morris Gleitzman
ISBN	0141042796

That's the good thing with stories. There's always a chance they can come true.

Felix is lucky. Unlike the other children in the orphanage, he's certain his parents will come back for him one day. And whatever the Nazis do and however many books they burn, Felix's imagination provides him and...