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Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Adventure Stories > Thrillers
A princess, a traitor, a soldier, a hunter and a thief. Five teenagers with the fate of the world in their hands. Five nations destined for conflict.
In Brigant, Princess Catherine prepares for a political marriage arranged by her brutal and ambitious father, while her true love, Ambrose, faces the executioner's block. In Calidor, downtrodden servant March seeks revenge on the prince who betrayed his people. In Pitoria, feckless Edyon steals cheap baubles for cheaper thrills as he drifts from town to town. And in the barren northern territories, thirteen-year-old Tash is running for her life as she plays bait for the gruff demon hunter Gravell.
As alliances shift and shatter, and old certainties are overturned, our five heroes find their past lives transformed and their futures inextricably linked by the unpredictable tides of magic and war. Who will rise and who will fall? And who will claim the ultimate prize?
A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that's been described as a "fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people, people that stay with us" by Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson.
It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything: two enormous bags filled with Legos. Lolly's always loved Legos, and he prides himself on following the kit instructions exactly. Now, faced with a pile of building blocks and no instructions, Lolly must find his own way forward.
His path isn't clear--and the pressure to join a "crew," as his brother did, is always there. When Lolly and his friend are beaten up and robbed, joining a crew almost seems like the safe choice. But building a fantastical Lego city at the community center provides Lolly with an escape--and an unexpected bridge back to the world.
David Barclay Moore paints a powerful portrait of a boy teetering on the edge--of adolescence, of grief, of violence--and shows how Lolly's inventive spirit helps him build a life with firm foundations and open doors.
When Hector Coleman and his mates genetically mutate overnight,
their lives change in impossible ways ... A comic-book inspired
adventure for fans of Stephen King and Charlie Higson. Hector
Coleman. Just your average angst-ridden teenager, living a normal
rubbish life in a normal rubbish town with, let's face it, a
rubbish name. But then all the teens in Hector's small town develop
weird mutations, and not in a superhero-type way. Someone gets
transparent skin, someone else starts breathing fire ... and that
doesn't end well. What the hell is going on? Hector and his friends
need to find out, before it's too late. It's a bit like Stranger
Things, only stranger. Everything has changed. Apart from Hector's
name. And his girl trouble. And his embarrassingly low number of
Twitter followers. All those things, unfortunately, stay the same.
For now ... A warm, funny novel about friendship, family, and being
different - oh, plus aliens, mutants and some serious scares ...
'This is one of the weirdest books I have read - I loved it! If you
ever imagined that people who get special gifts always turn out to
be super-heroes, think again ... a sort of cross between super-hero
story, sci-fi, detective story, love story ... More like this,
please.' Melvin Burgess
The breathtaking second book from the author of Orangeboy, winner
of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the YA
Book Prize, the CrimeFest award, and shortlisted for the Costa Book
Award . Praise for Orangeboy: "A truly brilliant book." Malorie
Blackman "Incredible book. Thank you Patrice Lawrence for such a
fresh and riveting piece of fiction." Ben Bailey Smith (Doc Brown)
Seventeen-year-old Indigo has had a tough start in life, having
grown up in the care system after her dad killed her mum. Bailey,
also seventeen, lives with his parents in Hackney and spends all
his time playing guitar or tending to his luscious ginger afro.
When Indigo and Bailey meet at sixth form, serious sparks fly. But
when Bailey becomes the target of a homeless man who seems to know
more about Indigo than is normal, Bailey is forced to make a choice
he should never have to make. A life-affirming story about falling
in love and everyone's need to belong.
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A novel of courage based on the experiences of John Harvey's own
father who served with the London Fire Brigade. 1940. Like most of
his London contemporaries, 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated into
the countryside to escape a city menaced by bombardment. But Jack
manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his
father, an auxiliary fireman with 'Blue Watch', and experiences the
London Blitz at first hand as he works for the fire service as a
bicycle messenger.
From the author of Thirteen, Tom Hoyle's Spiders is a creepy,
spine-tingling thriller that will leave you breathless, perfect for
fans of Michael Grant. Adam may have survived once, but a cult
still has him in its sights. And this time he may not escape with
his life . . . Abbie's dad is an undercover agent, tasked with
exposing dangerous cults. He's normally able to maintain his
distance, but this time Abbie's worried he's in too deep. Megan was
sure she and Adam were safe, but now he's missing and she's the
only one who can help him . . . The web is closing in around them .
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