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The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games. The movie adaptation from Twentieth Century Fox will be in cinemas in August 2018.
Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.
A mysterious disease has killed most of America's children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for survival?
'A riveting emotional read that kept me on the edge.' - Melissa Marr, author of Wicked Lovely
Alexandra Bracken is the New York Times bestselling author of Passenger, Wayfarer and The Darkest Minds series. Visit her online at www.alexandrabracken.com and on Twitter @alexbracken.
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Stone Cold
(Paperback)
Robert Swindells
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Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-winning thriller by Robert
Swindells. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic,
outspoken, first. A tense thriller plot is combined with a
perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a
serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Link,
aged 17, is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb,
another homeless youngster. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that
she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to
track down the killer and she's prepared to use herself as bait ...
The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From
political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage
pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues
and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The
Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith,
Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First
Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless
Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the
Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard,
No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C.
O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The
Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
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The Bubble
(Hardcover)
Joseph Honor Patenaude; Illustrated by Mauro Lirussi
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Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy
with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to
escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his
mother, his life becomes a dangerous game. The precious Lewis
Chessmen-which he helped carve-hold the key to his freedom, but he
will need all his courage and wit to triumph against Sven
Asleifsson, the cruellest Viking in the realm. One false move could
cost him his life. Barbara Henderson has woven a thrilling origin
story around the enduring mystery of the Lewis Chessmen, their
creation in Norway, and how they ended up buried in the Hebrides
before being discovered on Lewis in 1831.
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Bears Don't Share
(Hardcover)
Rick Bobrick; Illustrated by Lauren Sullivan
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