The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill | Every year, the evil Protectorate offers a baby to the evil witch in the forest to ensure their village’s safety. Yet, unknown to them, the witch is Xan, the plump and knowledgeable protector of the babies that she takes to the neighbouring village to be raised as special children, fed on starlight … | 10-14 | 10-14 |
Time Between Us | Tamara Ireland Stone | Sixteen-year-old Anna is struggling to understand Bennett, the new boy at school. One minute he seems interested in her and she feels they have a connection - but the next, he avoids her and acts as if he hardly knows her.
When he saves her life, she finally discovers his secret and all the pieces … | 13+ | 12+ |
Girl Out of Water | Nat Luurtsema | Lou Brown's swimming ambitions sank without trace when she failed in the Olympic time trials that sent her best friend off to High Performance Training Camp.
Fifteen years old, 5 foot 10 (and still growing), left at home with no hobby and no friend, she struggles to fit in with even the least cool k… | 13-18 | 10+ |
Captive | A J Grainger | Robyn is scared. Ever since the attempted assassination of her dad, the British prime minister, she dreads leaving home. Especially when he's staying in Downing Street and she's off to her grandparents' country estate. But this time, the animal rights activists aren't after the prime minister. It's … | 13+ | 13 |
The School of Music | Rachel Bowen and Meurig Bowen Illustrator: Daniel Frost | Welcome to the School of Music. In charge is Maestro Sergio Trunk. Over three terms, you'll discover the wide, wonderful world of music, whether you're listening, reading, writing or playing.
There's a tour of musical genres and eras, from classical to jazz, medieval to modern, as well as introduc… | 10+ | 10+ |
The Crystal Stair | Catherine Fisher | The Crystal Stair picks up after At the World’s End. Caz and Will live in a settlement for survivors of the frozen world. Caz hasn’t seen her father for nine years, when the Blue Star poisoned and froze the planet. She can’t let go of the feeling that he may still be alive somewhere, and when she fi… | 12+ | 8+ |
Dark Inside | Jeyn Roberts | After a huge earthquake strikes every continent on Earth, strange things start happening and people begin behaving very oddly. Aries survives a bus crash, while Clementine barely escapes the horror of a town massacre. While Mason is in hospital at his dying mother’s bedside his school is destroyed a… | 14+ | 10+ |
Kite Spirit | Sita Brahmachari | When her best friend Dawn commits suicide, Kite's world falls apart. Struggling to deal with her hearbreaking grief, she leaves London with her father to spend the summer in the Lake District - but the strange house and unfamiliar landscape leave her feeling vulnerable and disorientated. Feeling tha… | 13+ | 12+ |
I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | Originally published in 1949, this delightful novel by the author of the much-loved One Hundred and One Dalmatians, still retains its freshness today.
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a form… | 12+ | 12+ |
Butter | Erin Jade Lange | Isolated and bullied at school, with a dysfunctional family life and weighing over 400 lbs, 'Butter' as he is nicknamed by his high school classmates, feels he has little left to live for. His love for music has lost its shine, and even his online chats with Anna, the girl of his dreams, have to be … | 13+ | 13+ |