Belonging
Karen Ann Hopkins Rose became Amish so she could be with Noah, but is this where she really belongs? ‘I left everything I knew behind. but it was worth it. He was worth it’. No one thought an ordinary girl…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: The Weight Of Water
Sarah Crossan Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for England. Life is lonely for Kasienka. At home her mother’s heart is breaking and at school friends are scarce. But…
This Is What Happy Looks Like
Jennifer E. Smith In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith’s new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O’Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of…
Carnegie and Greenaway Award: Code Name Verity
In The Shadow Of Blackbirds
Cat Winters Does proof of the spirit world exist? It’s 1918. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, the government ships young men overseas to the front lines, and neighbor accuses neighbor of…
It's here!
It’s here, It’s finally here! The date Cassandra Clare fans have been waiting for since the moment they turned the last page of Clockwork prince. Or, perhaps like me, since they turned the first page of Clockwork Angel back in…
Fragments
Dan Wells Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards 2013
It’s that time of year again; The Carnegie and Greenaway shortlists are out. For those that don’t know, these are two of the most prestigious book awards in the country. The Carnegie Award looks at books published for children over…
Self Published Sunday: New Adult Romance
It gives us great pleasure to introduce Michelle Valentine, the author of the Black Falcon Series and recently published, Demon At My Door (reviewed here by Caroline). For the last four years, good girl Lane has regretted breaking up with…
Seraphina
Rachel Hartman Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities…
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