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'new gen' - Great Fiction for Teens and Young Adults
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Killing God
Kevin Brooks
July 2009 Book of the Month.
A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from the critically acclaimed
Kevin Brooks. Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she
couldn't care less. Dawn has other things on her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Storm Glass
Maria V Snyder
July 2009 Book of the Month.
First of a new trilogy following Opal’s adventures as she weaves magic into glass. With her unique skill blend – magician and glass blower – she is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/07/2009
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
This is a quite remarkable and moving debut novel that has was causing waves well before it was published. The author has crafted a powerful and, at...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Hens Reunited
Lucy Diamond
A great tale about friendship and relationships. Three best friends have all enjoyed the hope and joy of each others hen nights but found the intervening years have not been quite as rosy as they all may have hoped. Lovely...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2009
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Twilight (Twilight Saga Book 1)
Stephenie Meyer
Shortlisted for the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year.
Deeply seductive and irresistibly compelling, this is an extraordinary
love story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished it. It’s
the first in the Twilight series and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/09/2006
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious National Book Award.
Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures Evie’s dramatic shift from child to adult in pinpoint sharp, painful...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
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Darke Academy: Secret Lives
Gabriella Poole
This is the first story in a series of three featuring supernatural spirits and each one is set in a different exotic city. Secret Lives has a gripping unputdownable plot, a sophisticated Parisian setting and paranormal romance that will set...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Kiss of Life
Dan Waters
Generation Dead was one of our most popular titles last year and this exciting sequel is likely to hit the mark too. It’s paranormal romance at its gripping best and goes to prove that readers just can’t get enough...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
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Bright Girls
Clare Chambers
An feisty story of the ups and downs and sometimes near disasters of two teen sisters sent away from their home in Oxford to stay with an aunt in Brighton after sinister things happen at home. Younger sister Robyn, the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Young Loaded and Fabulous: Secrets and Liars
Kate Kingsley
More from the jet-set lives of the Young, Loaded and Fabulous crowd. Follow the gang as they head off to Rome for a lavish engagement party, thrown by Italian Vogue. Just a normal Friday night out really!!! Great fun and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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Ghostgirl: Homecoming
Tonya Hurley
More adventures from Charlotte, the Ghost Girl of the title. Discovering she still hasn't made it through to the afterlife, just yet, Charlotte finds herself having to complete an internship helping troubled teens. A welcome return for this funny, mixed...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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Megan Book One: The Biggest Decision of All
Mary Hooper
Tender and thoughtful, Megan charts the welter of complex emotions Megan goes through from the moment she discovers she’s pregnant. Only fifteen she has to deal with the impossibly difficult choices that it throws up as well as coping with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/03/2009
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Megan Book Two: And Then There Were Two
Mary Hooper
Having had a baby at fifteen, Megan has to make the most difficult choice. Everyone thinks she shouldn’t keep the baby but Megan feels quite differently. Can she really bear not to? What choice Megan should make and how she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/03/2009
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Megan Book Three: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd
Mary Hooper
Settling into her new life as a young mother, Megan loves Jack but she also misses the life her contemporaries lead. Reluctantly and not without resentment she settles to the limitation of her unusual situation but, when someone threatens Jack’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/03/2009
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There comes a point in a young life when the time is right to move on from the books and children’s authors you’ve enjoyed as a child to reading books and authors that offer greater challenges as you grow up into adulthood. ‘New Gen’ is here to bridge that gap to introduce you to adult authors and also those children’s authors who also write for a teenage / young adult audience. Here you’ll find writers like Melvin Burgess and Kevin Brooks, whose addictive stories are woven around real issues, stuff you might have encountered in the real world. What makes them unique is that the lead characters tend to be teenagers too, making them easy to identify with.
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Blood Ties
Sophie Mckenzie
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2009. Terrifically paced, this thriller links two teenagers who must work
fast to unravel the past and discover the dangerous secret that unites
them....
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My Double Life
Joanna Nadin
A double-whammy of Joanna Nadin with this two in one containing the first two titles in the brilliantly funny series featuring the tragically normal angst ridden teenager, rachel Riley. Laugh-out-loud...
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Bloodchild
Tim Bowler
If you’re on the hunt for a book that will really grab you,
put shivers down your spine and ensure that at the end of every chapter you
gasp for breath then...
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Nicholas Dane
Melvin Burgess
Carnegie-prize winning author, Melvin Burgess, has written a long-awaited new novel. This compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s care home is a powerful study of a...
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Bad Wedding
Catherine Forde
Forget romance, Jane tells the story of how she made sure that her sister’s wedding was a truly bad wedding. From the bridesmaid dress through the hen night to the...
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Creature of the Night
Kate Thompson
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009 and shortlisted for the
Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. From multi-award winning author Kate
Thompson comes another absorbing read, blazing an enthralling path
between the stark realities...
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War of the Worlds (Classics Illustrated)
H G Wells
“I would certainly recommend any parent hoping to inspire an
interest in the ‘classics’ of literature to consider exposing their
children to this excellent version of the story. Certainly the art is
striking....
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Winner of the 2009 prestigious Newbery Medal.
Spooks galore in this brilliant and fantastic story of life in the
graveyard. When Baby Bod escapes a murderer intent on killing his whole
family, he...
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Stolen
Lucy Christopher
This controversial debut is a moving drama about kidnapping, isolation and survival and an extraordinary psychological thriller that will steal the minds of those who read it. Sensitive, intelligent and...
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The Hundred-Towered City
Garry Kilworth
Nail biting adventure powers this time slip story in which three
young people are transported back in time to search for their missing
parents. Will they find their parents and, even if...
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Jackdaw Summer
David Almond
In his exceptional, delicate writing, prize-winning author David
Almond weaves together many strands which together give an intimate
insight into the thinking of two boys growing up in his familiar
Northumberland countryside. Against...
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Skim
Mariko Tamaki
Stunningly drawn, this graphic novel brilliantly charts the deep and sometimes desperate conflicts and moods that prevail in teen years. Teenage witch Skim keeps a diary in which she records...
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Magic Flutes
Eva Ibbotson
It’s wonderful to see a new edition of a wonderfully evocative novel
that was first published back in the early 1980s and is now been given
a new cover look for a...
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