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Bed
David Whitehouse
March 2012 Debut of the Month. What an extraordinary debut novel, full of evocative language and tragic humour, Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. Narrated by David, a younger brother literally...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

The Things We Did for Love
Natasha Farrant
March 2012 Mega Debut of the Month. A beautiful and bittersweet love story set in the real village of Oradour-sur-Glane which was cruelly and apparently randomly destroyed during the Second World War. Teenagers...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012

The Land of Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel
The triumphant finale of the hugely successful Earth's Children series. Once again, Jean Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

The Look
Sophia Bennett
We suspect this may well be Sophia Bennett's break-out novel. Her previous ones have done immensely well but this novel for teenagers is blisteringly good. It's the story of two sisters whose world falls apart just as for one of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls
This is an eagerly anticipated, powerful and inspiring historical novel about survival in the face of real-life horror from one of today's most exciting young writers. Sally Nicholls provides a heartbreaking account of one of the most terrifying events inhistory...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

Mister Creecher
Chris Priestley
A blood-chilling story with the search for Frankenstein at its heart. When orphaned Billy, a miserably poor and hungry street urchin, comes across Mister Creecher, a man of great size and sinister intent, his life is turned upside down. Soon...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

Kill You Last
Todd Strasser
This is a powerful and uncompromising thriller and not for the faint-hearted. It is the third crime thriller from a bestselling American authorwho 'really has his finger on the way kids think' (The New York Times). It offers all the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

Torn Book Two in the Trylle Trilogy
Amanda Hocking
Acknowledging that she was different from everyone else wasn't difficult for Wendy Everly she'd always felt like an outsider. But a new world and new family is a hard for any girl to accept easily. Leaving behind the mysterious country...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012

Bzrk
Michael Grant
The most breathtaking and exhilarating ride you will take this year, this is the first in an incredible new action thriller series from Michael Grant, author ofGone. Other titles from the YA imprint Electric Monkey include: Code Name Verity...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/02/2012

Wither : Book One of the Chemical Garden
Lauren DeStefano
March 2012 New Gen Debut of the Month. Refreshingly free of vampires and werewolves this is a stunning debut novel. Written for teenage readers, categorised YA (Young Adult) in the trade, but don't...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012

Fever : Book Two of the Chemical Garden
Lauren DeStefano
Exciting new dystopian teen fiction. Genetic engineering gone wrong has lead to a radically different population structure and teenage girls are forced to breed to keep the human race alive. The second in the trilogy finds 17-year-old Rhine Ellery beginning...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012

Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
This is one of the most inspiring books for the YA market that we've seen for a while. The quality of the writing is so smooth and the storyline so compelling that you'll find you've got to the end in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/2012

Oliver Twisted
J. D. Sharpe, Charles Dickens
Flesh, the woe-begotten moaned at Oliver, baring teeth which were ragged and black. Flesh came another moan, and he turned to see two more behind. They began to shuffle towards him, barefoot. The world according to Oliver Twisted is simple. Vampyres...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/2012

Mice
Gordon Reece
February 2012 Book of the Month. A Piece of Passion from the Publisher of Mice, Maria Rejt:"Mice is not a thriller that conforms particularly to what a bestselling thriller purports to be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012

The Demon Trappers: Forgiven
Jana Oliver
Riley Blackthorne. Kicking hell's ass one demon at a time ... The third in the excellent Demon Trappers sequence. Click here to visit the Demon Trappers series website. Itincludes a forum where readers can discuss the books and a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012

Star Island
Carl Hiaasen
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', standing in for Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012

Socks Are Not Enough
Mark Lowery
A piece of Passion from the Publisher: We at Scholastic Children’s Books are very proud to be publishing Socks Are Not Enough by Mark Lowery in February 2012. It genuinely takes a lot to make me laugh – especially out loud....
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Girl, Stolen
April Henry
A teenage girl is inadvertently kidnapped and a car is stolen by a gang. When the gang realises who they have in the car they have no intention of letting her go without recompense. But Cheyenne, despite being blind and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels (Quick Reads)
Jacqueline Rayner
A World Book Day 2012 Quick Read. This is a thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

David
Mary Hoffman
Art, politics and romance are brilliantly explored in this enthalling story of how a young man’s face became one of the most famous in the world. Country boy Gabriele arrives in Florence in 1501 with nothing but a connection with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Daylight Saving
Edward Hogan
A chilling ghost story unfolds fast as the mysterious Lexi’s watch moves steadily backwards and Daniel discovers he must solve the mystery of her terrible wounds before Summer Time ends… Daniel knows he is going to hate everything about his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Fallen in Love
Lauren Kate
Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story. In this title, in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentine's Day in Medieval England. Click here to visit the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012

Someone Else's Life
Katie Dale
A totally gripping, roller-coaster of a story about family secrets, relationships and deceit - Jodi Picoult for teens.A wonderfully engaging debut novel from a talented young author who won the 2008 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

Divergent
Veronica Roth
This is a heart-pounding and thrilling urban dystopian fiction debut from an exciting young author. Divergent is a novel of non-stop suspense and twists and turn that you least expect. There's romance too and a heroine who is determined to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

The Watch That Ends the Night : Voices from the Titanic
Allan Wolf
Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope - twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012

Legend
Marie Lu
Los Angeles, California Republic of America. He is Day. The boy who walks in the light. She is June. The girl who seeks her brother's killer. On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistably drawn together, neither knows...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

The Other Life
Susanne Winnacker
Beautifully formed and gut-wrenchingly gripping, this is essential reading. Here at Lovereading we're glad to see the back of too much paranormal publishing and pleased to see a new theme - dystopian fiction - coming to the fore. The worry...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw,The Fault in Our Starsis award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. John Green...
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/01/2012

Tamar
Mal Peet
Winner ofthe Carnegie Medal 2006. What the judges said: This is an enthralling and multi-layered novel that traces the story of two men caught up in secret operations in World War Two. It looks at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

The Penalty
Mal Peet
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion for football shines...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012