Young Adult Books

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans... Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie: how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying. The real story is much more interesting. Persephone wasn't taken to hell: she jumped. There was no way she was going to be married off to some smug god more in love with himself than her. Now all she has to do is convince the Underworld's annoyingly sexy, arrogant and frankly rude ruler, Hades, to fall in line with her plan. A plan that will shake Mount Olympus to its very core. But consequences can be deadly, especially when you're already in hell . . . A fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy re-imagining from a growing TikTok superstar. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241624289 • Author: Bea Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 496 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.9 x 19.8cm

A mesmerising Gothic mystery from Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling. To the horror of young gravedigger, Ned, bodysnatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the dead of night. Until now, he’d been daydreaming about another visitor, a daughter of the manor, Obedience Wellrest. But sixteen-year-old Obedience has troubles of her own: her loving but overbearing father, and his wish to see her married to a rich man of science, Phineas Mordaunt. When Mordaunt starts to poke his nose into her family history in particular the ruinous research of late Uncle Herbert – Obedience enters into a dangerous game with Death, and Ned might be the only person who can save her. A mesmerising tale of magic, death and science, wrapped up in a delicious Gothic mystery. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781912626687 • Author: Nicholas Bowling • Publisher: Chicken House Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 304 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.3cm

Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in the hospital of King Jude's.  Payton wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital walls. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unravelling... The first teen novel from Angharad Walker, author of critically-acclaimed The Ash House Angharad's writing evokes the clever, unique world-building and philosophical themes of Pullman's His Dark Materials while remaining startlingly original. The story follows two sisters in a London-inspired city full of fantastical illness and sprawling, gothic hospitals where dark secrets linger beneath the surface. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781912626984 • Author: Angharad Walker • Publisher: Chicken House Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 X 14.7 X 2.4cm

It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball … are forfeit. But Sophia doesn't want to be chosen - she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella's tomb. And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world … An electrifying twist on the classic fairytale that will inspire girls to break out of limiting stereotypes and follow their dreams! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781526621979 • Author: Kalynn Bayron • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 389 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.7 x 2.9cm

How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility.  Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking and looking for treasure until a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity's entire existence. Now Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice...  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781406375510 • Author:  James Lauren • Publisher:  Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  304 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.7 x 3.1 cm  

What if everything you thought you knew about your life was a lie? Girl, Missing is the blockbuster bestselling title from Sophie McKenzie. Lauren is adopted and eager to know more about her mysterious past. But when she discovers she may have been snatched from her family as a baby, her whole life suddenly feels like a sham. Could her adoptive parents really have been responsible for kidnapping her? Running away from her family to seek out the truth, Lauren's journey takes her deeper and deeper into danger as she realises that someone wants to stop her uncovering what really happened when she was a baby.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781471147999 • Author:  Sophie McKenzie  • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  320 • Dimensions: 13.2 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780141345659 • Author:  John Green • Publisher:  Penguin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.12 cm

When a new family moves into a house in Pendle, they discover a witch's bottle filled with curses.  Soon the spirits of those accused of witchcraft in the infamous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 are released, wreaking havoc in the area. Eve, Clovis and Tom are enlisted to investigate in their latest and most challenging mission yet. Together with their mentor, Professor Rufus, they must go up against the ghosts of the Pendle witches. But the ghosts are hellbent on possessing the descendants of those who were responsible for their deadly trials.  Can the ghost-hunting trio put a stop to the possessions before it's too late? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781839133183 • Author:  Yvette Fielding • Publisher: Andersen Press  • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  288 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm

Now a Netflix movie, starring Susanna Skaggs. The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina has a happy life in Seattle and doesn't want to leave.  Shortly after she arrives at Howard's home, Lina meets Sonya, who gives Lina a diary that belonged to Lina's mother, the one she had kept while she was a photography student in Florence. While Lina is living her life and exploring Tuscany with her handsome neighbour, Ren, she follows in the footsteps of her mother a  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781406372328 • Author:  Jenna Evans Welch • Publisher:  Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  336 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm 

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12?  A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother.  She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it! But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years, she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781526676030 • Author:  Gabrielle Zevin • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  271 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning… Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place very like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backwards from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driving licence. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. She doesn't want to get to know a grandmother she's never met before and have to make all-new friends. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Or is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781526675835 • Author:  Gabrielle Zevin • Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  288 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9  x 2 cm

A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who's drawn to death - Now a major Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. Theodore Finch tries to look for good things in the world, even if sometimes he doesn't always find them. Violet Markey exists for the future, counting the days until she can escape her Indiana town and its painful memories of her sister. When they meet on the ledge of a tower, what might have been their end turns into their beginning. It's only with Violet that Finch can truly be himself - a funny guy who actually wants to experience the joy in life. And when Violet's with Finch, she forgets to wish away the days and starts to live them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. He's trying to cling on to his bright places, but will it be enough this time? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780141357034 • Author:  Jennifer Niven • Publisher:  Penguin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  432 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.59 cm

The gripping sequel to the bestselling, award-winning teen thriller Girl, Missing, by million-copy selling author Sophie McKenzie. It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren – exam pressure and a recent family heartbreak have taken their toll. Hoping some time together away from everything will help, Lauren’s birth mother takes her and her two sisters on holiday, only for tragedy to strike again when one of Lauren’s sisters disappears, under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. . . perhaps too similar to be a coincidence. Can Lauren save her sister and stop the nightmare from happening all over again? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781471185786 • Author: Sophie McKenzie • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format: Paperback • Pages: 272 • Dimensions: 13 x 1.65 x 19.8cm

Six years have passed since the end of Sister, Missing and Madison is now a teenager.  During a visit to older sister Lauren, she learns that their biological father was an anonymous sperm donor and sets out to track him down.  Her search bears fruit sooner than expected, but is the father she discovers all he seems? As Madison gets drawn into a mysterious investigation involving missing girls and secret hideaways, she finds herself embroiled in more and more danger. . .  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781471185793 • Author: Sophie McKenzie • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  320 • Dimensions:  19.8 x 13 x 1.9cm

The second book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out... and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruellest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced, and Katniss and Peeta are forced into the arena once more. A major feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Liam Hemsworth Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781407132099 • Author:  Suzanne Collins • Publisher:  Scholastic • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  480 • Dimensions: 13.5 x 2.9 x 19.8 cm

A story of best friends, bad luck and the consequences of breaking the rules in a town built on secrets and superstitions. I am girl of Ember Grove, and these are my woods… Growing up in Ember Grove, Bitsy Clark knows better than to mess with the long-held traditions of her hometown. Until her best friend, Amy, persuades her to sneak into the Revelry – the end-of-school party in the woods, to which only those leaving are invited.  When she wakes the next day, Bitsy can’t remember anything from the night before. Weirder still, whenever she tries to speak about the Revelry, Bitsy chokes on the words. But this is just the beginning, and what starts out as a run of bad luck starts to feel like a curse. As Bitsy’s life goes from bad to worse, things only get better and better for her best friend. It's as if there’s only so much luck to go around and Amy’s getting all of it... Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781406388442 • Author:  Katherine Webber • Publisher:  Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  272 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3 cm

She felt like a ghost. She woke in the night. What was that music? Sylvia has never been so far away. Her mother has brought her to this village, this place of silence and dark, endless forest, and she yearns for the city, the bright lights, her friends, even a phone signal. Late one night she hears the music, a weird jagged spiralling sound. It is played by Gabriel, a troubled, beautiful boy. Gabriel uses the strangest of flutes, a hollow bone. Play it well enough, he says, and you cross the borders between the living and the dead. Sylvia knows she’ll follow him into the depths of the forest. But will they ever find their way out again? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781444952926 • Author: David Almond • Publisher: Hodder Children's Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 208 • Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.8 x 19.6cm

A dark psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, and those friendships which take hold of you and never let you go. Tic tac toe, three girls in a row. Nine years old and inseparable. Friends for life, or so they think.  Best friends Syd, Rain and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out.  In the end, each of them will escape, but not in the way they expect. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall. A deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of their senior year of high school and nothing will ever be the same.  With gorgeous, taut prose and shocking twists, All the Best Liars will keep you guessing to the very last page. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529510553 • Author: Amelia Kahaney • Publisher: Walker Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8cm

Meet MC Growls, wannabe rapper and star of the show in this hilarious and heartwarming teen debut. Yeah, they call me Growls, I'm like a tiger on the prowl. King of jungles so you better take a bow. King of concrete so you better say it loud! Shaun (aka MC Growls) is ready to drop his best bars and smash the competition at Raptology. That way, he's convinced Tanisha, his crush, will finally give him a chance. But when a livestream practice goes epically wrong, Growls's dirty laundry is literally exposed. He's finally achieved his dreams of going viral - not in a good way. Now Tanisha won't look at him, he's the joke of the school and there's no way he can show his face at the competition. Will he ever catch a break? Then a new girl on the block who might be just the friend Growls needs appears. Especially when she points out that Raptology could be the answer to his problems after all. . . Step up to the mic! It's MC Growls and he's ready for this. He's steady for this. It's comeback season and they call him comeback king for a reason.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781471413223 • Author:  Nathanael Lessore  • Publisher:  Hot Key Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  272 • Dimensions:  19.8 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm