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Gracie Dart has always worked hard and she's got a wall covered with revision timetables and French verbs to prove it. But now GCSEs are behind her and she suddenly starts to think: what was the POINT of it all?When Gracie thinks she's dying of a disgusting tropical illness, she starts to worry she's been wasting her best years being sensible. It's like people say: you only live once - so isn't it about time she started LIVING?

After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, charming, eloquent and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again.

Stranger Things meets Pullman's Northern Lights in this dark and magical fantasy adventure. Fourteen years ago, Jane Doe and her father arrived on the steps of the Manor - the entrance to a dangerous labyrinth connecting the island of Bluehaven to many other worlds. That was the same night the earthquakes started, and Jane and her silent, troubled father, John have been feared and despised ever since. When the strongest quake yet strikes and John disappears back into the Manor, Jane embarks on a perilous adventure to find her father and save her world - perhaps all worlds - from destruction . . . Fans of Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson adventures, Frances Hardinge and the Netflix blockbuster Stranger Things will love this heart-pounding and spell-binding middle grade adventure with its nod to the classic 80s movies The Goonies and Indiana Jones. Jeremy Lachlan, a Sydney bookseller, has always been obsessed with the big epic adventures such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and The Chronicles of Narnia - and was inspired to write The Cradle of All Worlds while lost in the Cairo Museum. The first book in a duology, this is his debut novel.

HOW DO YOU FIGHT AN INVISIBLE ENEMY? A high-speed chase through the backstreets of Lagos and an unexpected bomb explosion in the jungle - it's all in a day's work for soldier Sean Harker. Looking forward to a well-earned break back home, Sean and his platoon fly back to the UK, only to find themselves fighting their way out of an airport hostage situation, and the country on high terrorist alert. Barely escaping with his life, Sean must now embark on a dangerous mission: to locate a deadly weapon, capable of destruction on a massive scale . . . a weapon no one will see coming.

Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of powerful teenage fiction. MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED... 'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I didn't want. To a girl who I didn't know... If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined - determined to do my own thing, to choose my own path in life...' Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune.

The battle has been fought, blood has been spilt and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome.

Ava''s disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can''t, because the before is so filmy and shadowed with the after.The after is all Vera remembers. When her twin sister, Ava, disappeared one Halloween night, her childhood became a blur of theories, tips, and leads, but never any answers. The case made headlines, shocked Vera''s Northern California community, and turned her family into tragic celebrities. Now, at eighteen, Vera is counting down the days until she starts her new life at college in Portland, Oregon, far away from the dark cloud she and family have lived under for twelve years. But all that changes when a girl shows up at the local hospital. Her name is Ava Rivers and she wants to go home.Ava''s return begins to mend the fractures in the Rivers family. Vera and Ava''s estranged older brother returns. Vera reconnects with Max, the sweet, artistic boy from her childhood. Their parents smile again. But the questions remain: Where was Ava all these years? And who is she now?

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story - that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true.

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams.Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek helpfrom the person shes spent all year trying to forget.Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds, and two very different boys.

Presented in March 2018 folder. Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology_written by the best childrens authors_celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. In a partnership

A contemporary take on the savage classic LORD OF THE FLIES: a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School

'Somaiya Daud is a rare talent. A smart, romantic, exciting debut.' - Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent The crown of Dihya had been stripped from me, my face changed, my body broken. But I was not a slave and I was not a spare. I was my mother's daughter, and I would survive and endure. I would find my way back home. In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, sixteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation, she dreams of writing poetry like the old world poetry she loves to hear read, she dreams of one day receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects. When she is kidnapped by the government and taken in secret to the royal palace, she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place. As Amani is forced into her new role, she can't help but enjoy the palace's beauty-and her time with the princess' fiance, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear, and one wrong move could lead to her death.

An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?

El nuevo título de la serie nos parece el más filosófico, pero también el más literario hasta la fecha. Ofrece muchas oportunidades para los lectores más jóvenes y más mayores de explorar las diferencias entre lo que es "de verdad" y lo que es "de mentira", nuestros sentidos y los que nos dicen acerca del mundo, y para preguntarse si podriamos o no estar soñando. A traves de escenas curiosas y preguntas intrigantes, invita a la reflexion y al dialogo, estimulando el desarrollo de un pensamiento propio y facilitando la construccion de un mapa visual y conceptual del tema abordado. ¡Abre, mira y piensa! Contiene 14 laminas con escenas que dan mucho que pensar, para leer y jugar solo o en compañia, mas de 100 preguntas para mentes intrepidas, 3 laminas para crear tus propias escenas, breve guia para niños y adultos, propuesta de uso y un poster

An extraordinary tale about the search for love from the acclaimed Costa and Carnegie winning novelist Sally Gardner. Jazmin has been shunned ever since her best friend Becky disappeared. But Becky didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall building and seemingly never reached the ground. It was as if she simply vanished into thin air. Did Jazmin have something to do with her disappearance? Or was it more to do with Icarus, so beguiling and strangely ever youthful, with whom Becky became suddenly besotted . . . With detailed and intriguing black and white illustrations throughout.

La historia del rey africano Tube Bapba Gui Fama Linger se basa en que no es un simple rey, ya que oculta un poder: su gran misión es vencer un mal y no un simple mal, sino un mal llamado Sukuñabe, que reinaba y dominaba todo el bosque. Este mal solo se puede descubrir en las entrañas de Africa y habiendolas vivido. Para vencer un mal procedente de otro reino no humano, el rey Tube Bapba Gui Fama tendra que vencer encantamientos y males mayores.El miedo se apoderaria de todo el reino; por ello, el rey tomara metodos y empleara tacticas para vencer ese mal que crecia cada dia y adoptaba distintas formas y maneras de aparecer.La mala relacion entre los dos reinos era notable desde antaño, sobre todo las intenciones del reino no humano. Esta mala relacion provoco muchas batallas entre los ancestros de ambos reinos hasta el dia de hoy.

La família de la Reina, una nena jueva sefardita que viu a Tetuan, al Marroc, prepara la seva tornada a Espanya després de cinc segles d''exili. La petita Reina encara no sap per què la seva família

Daniel y su abuelo Honorato (explorador, aventurero, científico, cocinero, concertista de armónica, fabricante de bastones, puños y fundas de cuchillos…) emprendieron uno de los viajes más extraños d

Tras morir su hermana gemela, Sia, una ni?a de ocho a?os, se siente especialmente triste y confusa. Sin embargo, un sabio monstruo muy especial llamado Pincho aparece de repente agazapado en el s?tano para ayudarla en esta dura traves?a. Terminar? haci?ndose un poquito m?s madura; y, lo m?s vital, aprender? algo fundamental que no le ense?an las asignaturas del colegio: inteligencia emocional.

El pa?s de los Sue?os es un lugar muy especial. Tan especial que, si t? quieres, cualquier cosa puede hacerse realidad. Vis?talo y pide un deseo. Este cuento es un canto a la imaginaci?n, una alegor?a que nos invita a conocer un lugar m?gico, ese que habita dentro de nosotros mismos y que se abre solo si le damos paso. Y es que en nuestro coraz?n residen nuestros sue?os.