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1) Gallant
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Description
When Olivia is sent to Gallant, her uncle's estate, she searches for answers about her family and her past.
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Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he's caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing - each teenager assuming Sam is a friend of another sibling. Sam finds himself inextricably...
6) Off the page
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Delilah is finally united with Oliver - a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale. There are, however, complications now that Oliver has been able to enter the real world. To exist in Delilah's world, Oliver must take the place of a regular boy. Enter Edgar, who agrees to take Oliver's role in Delilah's favorite book. In this multilayered universe, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred,...
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Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan that'll help her figure out what it means to be Puerto Rican, lesbian and out. See, she's going to intern with Harlowe Brisbane - her favourite feminist author, someone whose last work on feminism, self-love and lots of other...
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A Throne of Glass Novel volume 1
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A young assassin serving a life sentence for her crimes is given a chance to regain her freedom by representing the prince in a fight-to-the-death tournament.
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Faith's older sister Laurel has returned after being missing for 13 years. Faith and her family are overjoyed and Laurel fits back in wonderfully ... perhaps a little too wonderfully. In a final, heart-breaking twist, the truth about Laurel is something her sister could never have anticipated.
11) Seconds away
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
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Mickey and his loyal friends once again find themselves in over their heads on the hunt for missing pieces to a puzzle they have yet to understand. As the mystery surrounding Mickey's dad's death unfolds, he soon learns that they may be in more danger than they could have ever imagined.
12) Linked
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
For years, Elissa has suffered nightmarish visions and unexplained bruises. Finally, she's promised a cure, and an operation is scheduled. But on the eve of the procedure, Elissa discovers the truth: she's seeing the world through another girl's eyes, a world filled with wires, machines and pain. Elissa follows her visions, only to find a battered, broken girl - a girl who looks exactly like her. Elissa and her twin Lin go on the run, but even after...
13) The ice dragon
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Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This is an enchanting tale of courage and sacrifice for young readers and adults by the wildly popular George R.R. Martin, author of 'A Song of Ice and Fire', the series that inspired HBO's Emmy Award-winning 'Game of Thrones'. Illustrations by acclaimed artist Luis Royo enrich this captivating and heartwarming story of a young girl and her dragon.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Some loves are cursed, others are dangerous. Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's dark. She's a siren. You can never trust her, or even yourself when she's around. Lucky for her, Wesley 'Link' Lincoln can never seem to remember that; quarter incubus or not, his heart is mortal when it comes to Ridley.
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'The Secret Commonwealth' sees Lyra, now 20 years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right. Theirs is...
16) The new recruit
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Publisher
Chivers Children's Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Description
What if your prank killed your best friend? Could you live with yourself? You try to forget, and move on with your life; you enrol in Army training, you want to make something of your life.
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Series
An inheritance games novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Swept away to a luxury private island, Lyra, Gigi and Rohan must do whatever it takes to best one another, a cast of formidable rivals, and a game that only the sharpest minds can conquer.
20) The island
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
Welcome to The Island. Where your worst fears are about to come true. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday: a week-long trip for six teenage friends on a remote tropical island. But when their guide dies of a stroke leaving them stranded, the trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare. Because someone on the island knows each of the group's worst fears. And one by one, they're becoming a reality. Seven days in paradise. A deadly secret. Who will...