Melvin Burgess

From acclaimed and controversial author, Melvin Burgess, a terrifying new Hammer Horror novella about a teenager and her relationship with a ghoul. When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied - at any cost...

A re-telling of the animated Disney film "Treasure Planet", this book follows Jim Hawkins, a rebellious solar-surfing teenager, on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. In search of treasure, Jim finds himself involved in battles and betrayal.

Contemporary / British English (Available March 2008) Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys! Will Billy continue to dance? Or have his father and brother got other plans for him?

Billy Elliot vit dans une ville minière d'Angleterre. Dans la famille Elliot, on est mineur de père en fils, et depuis de longues semaines, on se bat pour que le gouvernement ne ferme pas les mines. Dans la famille Elliot, on fait de la boxe de père en fils mais, sur le ring, Billy esquive les coups, fait des pirouettes. On dirait qu'il danse. Et c'est ce qu'il aime Billy, danser. Et il est doué. Si doué qu'il pourrait un jour devenir danseur étoile. Mais pour ça, il va devoir se battre. Pour la famille Elliot commence alors un nouveau combat, un combat plein d'espoir...

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly for ever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down.

Dino really fancies fit, sexy Jackie, but she just won't give him what he wants ... Jonathan likes Deborah, but she's a bit fat - what will his mates say? Ben's been secretly shagging his teacher for ages. He used to love it, but what if he wants to stop? Three lads discovering sex for the first time. But do any of them really know what they're doing?

For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds. . . The events that follow take them into a savage, lonely city and so begins an endless fight for survival. An intense and thrilling read.

Set in the not-so-distant future two rival gangs the Volsons and the Connors struggle for control of London which is now surounded by the halfman lands - a desolate place populated by creatures halfmen who were the result of genetic experiments to create living killing machines.

'The ghost was rushing forwards towards David. As he came he grew bigger and bigger and bigger, until he was like a lorry charging through the pipes. David screamed and the ghostly boy opened his mouth and screamed back. But his scream wasn't the scream of a child. It was the scream of an old, old man. "Come back, come back," screamed the ghost in his cracked old voice. "Don't leave me. Don't go!"'

"'You thought you were watching my death,' hissed the dragon. 'But you were watching your own.' And then he lunged."Forced into the clutches of a bloodthirsty dragon, Sigurd is fighting not only for his life, but for the survival of an apocalyptic Britain. For Sigurd is the chosen one, the golden warrior boy blessed with the courage of a hero and the strength of a lion. In a world where power and corruption are all-consuming, can he fulfil his destiny and overcome the tyranny that threatens to destroy him? Be astounded. Be compelled. Be heartbroken by this amazing sequel to Bloodtide.

Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly for ever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal

Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure - pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she's fed up with all that. Sandra's been having fun, running wild - some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She's frightened at first, but she quickly finds pleasures she hardly knew existed. Sandra starts to wonder, is being human worth all the effort?