In 'The Power', the world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small...

Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only 14, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly ... Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic...

?My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a ?jiffy? lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn?t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself....

Chantelle has everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have...

A girl discovers that she has turned invisible after spending too long on a sunbed in an attempt to get rid of her acne.

'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM 1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn between evangelical and rationalist dogma. Amid the disquiet, a young nursemaid in a pious household conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn. Rumours swirl about the identity of the child?s father,...

I WAS DEAD FOR 13 MINUTES. I DON'T REMEMBER HOW I ENDED UP IN THE ICY WATER BUT I DO KNOW THIS - IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT. AND I WASN'T SUICIDAL. Tasha Howland is popular at school, leader of the cooler-than-cool clique known as the Barbies. She's pretty, smart and confident. Everybody admires her and wants to be friends with her...don't they? So when she is found nearly dead in a freezing cold river, unable to remember how she got there, Tasha is forced...

At the age of seventeen, Claudine is in despair having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. However, she gradually warms to Paris, and records her witty observations and adventures among the intriguing characters that surround her.

There are lots of things about growing up that are hard to be honest about, even with your best friends. So Margaret talks to God about her feelings - in one of Judy Blume's funniest and best-known novels.

Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces Opal...