The Boxer
By: Nikesh Shukla
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny…
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1. Hitler's Canary
By: Sandi Toksvig
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"My brother stood up so quickly he almost knocked Mama over. 'Why aren't you doing something? Do yo… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
2. Piecing Me Together
By: Renée Watson
4.08
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from a… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Those girls are not the opposite of me. We are perpendicular. We may be on different paths, yes. But there's a place where we touch, where we connect and are just the same."-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together
"I write my resolution in black Sharpie marker on top of a background made out of cut-up scriptures, words from newspaper headlines, and numbers from last year's calendar. Be bold. Be brave. Be beauti…"-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together
"Sam leans forward. "But then again I feel bad for feeling bad, if that makes any sense," she says. "It's kind of not fair for us to feel guilty for getting what we deserve. We work hard." It takes a …"-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together
"My grandmother called it bearing witness. She'd sit on the porch with her sister and talk the night away. Sometimes gossiping, sometimes praying. I'd hear them confide in each other, telling each oth…"-Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together
3. Orangeboy
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sixteen-year-old Marlon has promised his widowed mum that he'll be good, and nothing like his gang-… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
4. War Horse (War Horse, #1)
By: Michael Morpurgo
4.15
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"cause when there's life there's still hope"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
5. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
6. An Inspector Calls
By: None
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more
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- fiction
7. Pigeon English
By: Stephen Kelman
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his … read more
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8. Small Island
By: Andrea Levy
4.00
Format: None pages,
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart bro… read more
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9. Noughts and Crosses
By: Malorie Blackman , Dominic Cooke
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Adaptation of much-loved thriller about racism by award-winning children's author Malorie Blackman. read more
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10. Ferryman
By: Claire McFall
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed. Except she hasn't. The bleak landscape around h… read more
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11. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
By: Arthur Miller
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more
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12. The Bone Sparrow
By: Zana Fraillon
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fl… read more
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13. The Owl Service
By: Alan Garner
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more
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14. Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
By: Malorie Blackman
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice … read more
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15. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
16. Darling
By: India Knight
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
17. All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.23
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance … read more
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- fiction
- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
18. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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- fiction
"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
19. Away With Words
By: Sophie Cameron
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. Sweet Sorrow
By: David Nicholls
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you do… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"... and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it’s somehow free of care, worry or fear."-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
"...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of mus…"-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
21. A Bird in Winter
By: Louise Doughty
3.68
Format: None pages, ebook
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
22. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
23. Internment
By: Samira Ahmed
3.87
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."-Samira Ahmed, Internment
24. Check Mates
By: Stewart Foster
4.28
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Some people think that I’m a problem child, that I’m lazy and never pay attention in lessons. But t… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
25. Promise Boys
By: Nick Brooks
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
26. Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption
By: C.S. Pacat
4.42
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A mysterious new fencer arrives at Halverton in the newest chapter of the GLAAD Media Award-nominat… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
27. The Burning
By: Laura Bates
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of the Month! What happens when you can’t run or hide from a mistake that go… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"We are the granddaughters of the witches you burned. And we’re not putting up with it any more."-Laura Bates, The Burning
"We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn. And we are not putting up with it anymore."-Laura Bates, The Burning
"Jeez,’ another boy calls, ‘it was a compliment.’ ‘Compliments are like jokes,’ Cat says drily. ‘If you have to explain what they are, they haven’t worked."-Laura Bates, The Burning
28. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By: Natasha Tidd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more
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29. Where the River Runs Gold
By: Sita Brahmachari
3.80
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury… read more
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30. By Horvath Jugend Ohne Gott: Luchterhand Taschenbucher [Paperback]
By: Horváth
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
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31. The Boxer
By: Nikesh Shukla
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Told over the course of the ten rounds of his first fight, this is the story of amateur boxer Sunny… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
