Model Misfit
Holly Smale “My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek.” Harriet knows that modelling won’t transform you. She knows that being as uniquely odd as a polar bear isn’t necessarily a bad thing (even in a rainforest).…
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem,…
Getting To Know…Daisy
Daisy is 12 and has just completed her first year at secondary school. She likes all types of music, especially jazz, and she plays the piano. Daisy owns a guinea pig called Patrick and she loves reading. Her parents are…
Back to Blackbrick
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald When Cosmo keeps his promise to go to Blackbrick Abbey, he unlocks the gate to the place his granddad once worked and finds himself in the forgotten corners of a distant past, one that his granddad has,…
The Diamond Thief
Sharon Gosling No one performs on the circus trapeze like sixteen-year-old Remy Brunel. But Remy also leads another life, as a cat burglar and jewel thief. Forced by the evil circus owner Gustave to attempt the theft of one of…
All American Girl
Meg Cabot Samantha Madison is an average, cool Washington, D.C., teen: She loves Gwen Stefani (who doesn’t?), can draw like nobody’s business, and enjoys being opposite to her sister’s annoying ultra-social personality. But when she ditches art class one day,…
Geek Girl
Holly Smale My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a Geek, and she knows it; she also knows that peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite. Being a teenager is hard enough and to have a geek reputation… well what’s…
Ante's Inferno
Griselda Heppel 12 year-old Ante Alganesh has a problem. It’s lunchbreak and Florence’s gang are after her. Desperate for a place to hide, she climbs the forbidden staircase to the old organ loft, from which a hundred years ago a…
Daisy's 2012 review
What is your favourite read of 2012? My Favourite read of 2012 would probably be the Templeton Twins by Ellis Weiner and Jeremy Holmes as it was hilarious and well illustrated. What book are you most looking forward to reading?…
Ratburger
David Walliams The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country. Hot on the heels of bestselling Gangsta Granny comes another hilarious, action-packed and touching novel – the story of…
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