Jenny Downham(David Fickling Books) Mikey’s sister is stuck indoors terrified to go outside after she was allegedly assaulted. Ellie’s brother is on bail, charged of her assault. When Mikey decides to take revenge, he decides to turn up at the Parkers’ house looking for Tom. But it is Ellie he meets and everything changes. This …
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Entangled
Cat Clarke(Quercus Children’s Books) When we first meet Grace, the main protagonist and narrator of this tale, she is sitting in a fairly sterile environment, having been “abducted” by gorgeous boy Ethan. We don’t know why. She doesn’t know why either. All she remembers is she met him at the swings, as she was about …
Matched
Ally Condie(Puffin) Cassia is seventeen years-old today and it is also the day of her Matching Banquet; tonight she will meet the boy that she will eventually marry. She does not get to decide who she will love, the society and its officials do. As she travels to the Banquet with her family, she knows …
Spooky Reads (7): Bloodline
Kate Cary(Egmont) When nineteen-year-old John Shaw enrols in the War and begins his duties in the trenches, he thinks that the horrors of war he will witness will be at the hands of his enemies. But it becomes clear that danger might not be across No Man’s Land after all when mysterious and charismatic Captain …
Raised by Wolves
Jennifer Lynn Barnes(Quercus) Bryn was, literally, raised by wolves … well, werewolves, not the Remus and Romolus kind. After her parents were savagely murdered by a rabid werewolf when she was four, she was rescued by Callum, werewolf himself and alpha of his pack and taken to live with them. And so she has done for …
Annexed
Sharon Dogar(Andersen Press) Everyone knows Anne Frank’s story, her life hidden at the top of those stairs in Amsterdam, and her untimely death. 31 million copies of her diary, which is translated in 67 languages, have been sold across the world. So we know the story, HER side of the story. But the Franks were …
Keys to the Repository
Melissa de la Cruz(Atom Books) Enter once more the fabulous world of the Blue Bloods, the vampire elite, and sneak a peek at their deepest secrets! Below the streets of Manhattan, sheltered from prying eyes, is hidden the Repository, the “library of Alexandria” for vampires, where all recorded movement from Blue Bloods, mostly unbeknown to …
Before We Say Goodbye
Gabriela Ambrosio(Walker Books) “This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish.”One spring morning in 2002, in Jerusalem. As the city awakes, two teenage girls are already on the go. Myriam, a Jewish girl, is off on the hill, walking off the sorrow of losing her best friend Michael in a suicide bomb in …
Perfect Chemistry
Simone Elkeles(Simon & Schuster) In Fairfield High School, you either come from the Southside or the Northside of the city. And they don’t mix, usually. But they are about to collide, big time.Brittany Ellis is the school’s princess: blonde hair, designer clothes, pom-pom girl, football captain boyfriend. She has it all. Or has she? Behind …