Jenny Valentine(HarperCollins Children’s Books) Sixteen year-old Chap has been in trouble for fighting (again) in the shelter he has been staying in when the strangest thing happens: the social workers show him a missing person’s poster with his photograph on it. Except, it is not him. The boy is called Cassiel Roadnight, and he has …
families
That Summer
Sarah Dessen(Puffin) For Haven, it is all change that summer. Her dad, a sports newsreader, is marrying the –much younger – weather girl. Her mother is still trying to deal with the aftermath of her divorce and her newfound freedom. Ashley, her sister, is also getting married, to an extremely insipid and boring boy, much …
Forbidden
Tabitha Suzuma(Definitions) Lochan is an extremely intelligent and sensitive 17 year old boy who has a hard time imteracting with others outside of the family coccoon. Maya is a pretty and sensible 16 year old girl, who is popular at school. They are brother and sister. At home they are also surrogate parents to their three …
Girl, 16: Five-Star Fiasco
Sue Limb(Bloomsbury Children’s Books)Jess Jordan is back! And yes, there is more drama, more boyfriend-induced angst and more embarrassing-parent moments. But what a laugh, and what a joy to welcome back this feisty and clever heroine. This time Jess and boyfriend Fred are in the throws of organising a charity Valentine’s Day Ball in aid …
The Vampire Blog
Pete Johnson(Corgi Yearling) Marcus is a perfectly normal teenager with a perfectly normal life, albeit some slightly odd parents. At least that’s what he thought, until his 13th birthday! When his parents give him an iPod Touch (hence the blogging), he is over the moon, quite content and pleasantly surprised by his parents buying him …
Paper Towns
John Green(Bloomsbury) Quentin has always had a thing for Margo. As children they were inseparable but as time went on they grew apart, Margo joining the in-crowd, whereas Quentin joined the band geeks, despite not playing a musical instrument. These days Margo barely looks at him, despite living next door and Quentin admires her, and …
No and Me
Delphine de Vigan No et moi, translated by George Miller (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Lou Bertignac is a high-IQ 13 year-old stuck in a class of 15 year-olds. The only student who deigns speak to her is 17 year-old Lucas, a rebel with a soft heart who she and all the other girls find irresistible (for those who …
Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur(Puffin) Eleven year-old Aubrey’s life has been turned upside down by a terrible event, and one day she finds herself living alone. After two weeks of surviving on crackers and cheese and tinned spaghetti, she is finally rescued by her grandmother who turns up at the house, worried from the lack of news. Suddenly, …
Marked
PC & Kristin Cast(Atom Books) When Zoey Redbird, a teenager with a very strict family, gets marked to soon become a vampire, her life gets turned upside down: she will have to move to the House of Night, a boarding school for vampire fledgings, where she will learn to become a vampire or die before she reaches that …
Marc Boutavant for ever (2)
All Kinds of Families!Mary Ann Hoberman (author) & Marc Boutavant (illustrator)(Little, Brown Young Readers) Bottle caps, gingersnaps, buttons, or rings You can make families from all sorts of things! This is a real hit with my kids. They love the rhyming text and already know some of it (including the recurring quote above) by heart.I have to say …