UKYA in 2018

Top 10 UKYA in 2018 : Clean, I Am Thunder, We Are Young, Big Bones, Hero at the Fall, Skylarks, The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day, The Fandom, My Box-Shaped Heart, Unveiling Venus

Clean
AuthorJuno Dawson
ISBN1786540363
I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter ... it's liquid gold.

When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.

She's wrong. Rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility.

From there, the only way is up for Lexi...
I Am Thunder
AuthorMuhammad Khan
ISBN1509874054
Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem, who dreams of being a writer, struggles with controlling parents who only care about her studying to be a doctor. Forced to move to a new school in South London after her best friend is shamed in a scandal, Muzna realizes that the bullies will follow her wherever she goes....
We Are Young
AuthorCat Clarke
ISBN1786540053
On the same night Evan's mother marries local radio DJ 'Breakfast Tim', Evan's brand-new step-brother Lewis is found unconscious and terribly injured, the only survivor of a horrific car crash.

A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone...
Big Bones
AuthorLaura Dockrill
The latest teen novel from the sparkling Laura Dockrill, introducing Bluebelle, and her moving, hilarious take on food, body image and how we look after ourselves and others

A heart-warming teen story from the unique voice of Laura Dockrill, about Bluebelle, aka BB, aka Big Bones - a sixteen-year-old...
Hero at the Fall
AuthorAlwyn Hamilton
ISBN0451477863
When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice. Armed with only her revolver, her wits,...
Skylarks
AuthorKaren Gregory
We watch the bird as it flies high above us, singing like it's the only thing in the world that matters.
And I feel it - that life can be beautiful. That there are possibilities.

Keep your head down and don't borrow trouble is the motto Joni lives by, and so far it's seen her family through some...
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day
AuthorChristopher Edge
How do you know you really exist?

It's Maisie's birthday and she can't wait to open her presents. She's hoping for the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house and outside the front door is nothing but a terrifying, all-consuming blackness. Trapped in...
The Fandom
AuthorAnna Day
ISBN1910655678
Violet's in her element. Cosplay at the ready, she can't wait to feel part of her favorite fandom: The Gallows Dance, a mega book and movie franchise that she and her friends know EVERY WORD of (canon and fanfic included).

But at Comic Con, a freak accident transports Violet and her friends into...
My Box-Shaped Heart
AuthorRachael Lucas
ISBN1509839577
My Box-Shaped Heart is a powerful story of an unlikely friendship from Rachael Lucas, author of The State of Grace.

Holly's mum is a hoarder, and she is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird . . . and having the wrong clothes . . . and sticking out. All she wants is to be invisible. She...
Unveiling Venus
AuthorSophia Bennett
ISBN1847158250
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mary Adams, one time scullery maid, finds herself rubbing shoulders with the high society of London and Venice as alter ego Persephone. But with an ambition to rise to the top, she must sacrifice everything and betray those she trusts...
Sunflowers in February
AuthorPhyllida Shrimpton
ISBN1471406881
Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there. It is all very peaceful. and very beautiful. It is only when the police car, and then the ambulance arrive, and she sees her own body, that she realises that she is in fact... dead. But what is she supposed do now?...
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