Throne Of Glass
Sarah J Maas Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Wrap Up
And the winner of the Kate Greenaway Award is… A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay (illustrations) And the winner of the Carnegie Award is… A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay (illustrations) Patrick Ness has…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Can We Save The Tiger?
Martin Jenkins and Vicky White (illustrator) Tigers are big, beautiful and fierce. But, like many other animals, they are in danger of becoming extinct. With breathtaking illustrations this large-format picture book tells us about the threats to the many endangered…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: The Gift
Carol Ann Duffy and Rob Ryan (illustrator) In a quiet town, of a sort not found nowadays, lives a beautiful young girl. One summer day, she visits the woods with her mother and father. While her parents prepare the picnic,…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: My Name Is Mina
David Almond There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It’s been there for an age. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. So I’ll start right here, right now. I open the book and…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Slog's Dad
Author: David Almond and Dave McKean (illustrator) Do you believe there’s life after death? Slog does. He reckons that the scruffy bloke sitting outside the pork shop is his dad come back to visit him for one last time- just…
Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts Moments after several huge earthquakes shake every continent on Earth, something strange starts happening to some people. Michael can only watch in horror as an incidence of road rage so extreme it ends in two deaths unfolds before…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Midnight Zoo
Sonya Hartnett World War II, Eastern Europe: Tomas and his younger brother, Andrej, have fled their Romany encampment which has been besieged by the Germans; they carry Wilma, their baby sister, in a sack. In an abandoned, bombed-out town, the…
Pandemonium
Lauren Oliver Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don’t. I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Small Change For Stuart
Lissa Evans Stuart Horten – ten years old and small for his age – moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his new next-door neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and…
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