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Action/Adventure

Divergent

Author:  Veronica Roth

 

One Choice

Decides Your Friends,

Guantanamo Boy

Fifteen year old Khalid likes seeing his friends, playing football down the park, the normal things.  He isn't too excited about going to visit his family in Pakistan, but his mum and dad want him to come with them.  So he goes.

And a living nightmare begins.

Khalid is kidnapped and forces to go to a place no teenager should ever see.  A plsce where torture and terror are the normal things.  Somewhere he doesn't know if he will ever ascape from.

A place called Guantanamo Bay.

Liberator

The sequel to Worldshaker again sees Col and Riff doing battle as rebellion continues within the Liberator and beyond as the other Imperialist juggernauts suspicion about life on Liberator threatens their empires too.


Steampunk fans will soak this up.


 


 


 


 

Out of Shadows

Author:  Jason Wallace

'If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?'


'No, sir, no way!'


'What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then?'

Getting Air

Author:  Debra Oswald

Zac and Corey are best mates. They skate in deserted carparks, along the streets, wherever they can. It's so unfair that they're always getting in trouble for it. It's not as if there's anywhere else to skate.

I Am Number Four

Author:  Pittacus Lore

There were NINE of us who escaped . . .
Number ONE was killed in Malaysia
Number TWO was murdered in England.
Number THREE was hunted down in Kenya.
Before they come for the others, they'll come for me . . .
I AM NUMBER FOUR.

John Smith is not your average teenager.

The Kneebone Boy

Author:  Ellen Potter

Life in a small town can be pretty boring when everyone avoids you like the plague. But after their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who’s away on holiday, the Hardscrabble children take off on an adventure that begins in the seedy streets of London and ends in a peculiar sea village where legend has it a monstrous creature lives who is half boy and half animal. . . .


In this wickedly dark, unusual, and compelling novel, Ellen Potter masterfully tells the tale of one deliciously strange family and a secret that changes everything.

The Slightly Skewed Life of Toby Chrysler

Author:  Paul Collins

 

Toby’s mum has been missing for more than a month. His new friend, Ginger, has lost her dad. So how can an abandoned red shoe, an unusual plan and map coordinates help them

in their search for their parents? And why is everyone looking for Toby?

Mole Hunt

Author:  Paul Collins

In a galaxy of cutthroat companies, shadowy clans and a million agendas, spy agency RIM barely wields enough control to keep order.

Maximus Black is RIM’s star cadet. But he has a problem. One of RIM’s best agents, Anneke Longshadow, knows there’s a mole in the organisation.

And Maximus has a lot to hide . . .