Glenda Millard (Templar) After a traumatic early life and a subsequent few years from foster home to foster home, Skip has had enough. Even school is no refuge, as even they do not seem to understand or embrace his love of art. So Skip decides to leave his old life behind and ends up living on …
homelessness
The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight
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 …
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 …