Home Ground
By: Alan Gibbons
3.46
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Sam's team are edging closer to the bottom of the league this season and team captain Jordan's bad …
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1. Long Way Down
By: Jason Reynolds
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more
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"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
2. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
3. I Must Betray You
By: Ruta Sepetys
4.41
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu … read more
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"A revolution eats its heroes."-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
"I envied him, the courage to be himself. In public."-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
"Fertility under state control? That's an abuse of human rights!' Bunu would wail."-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
"I hadn’t yet absorbed one of life’s universal truths: Things that seem straightforward? Often aren’t."-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
4. The Final Year
By: Matt Goodfellow
4.71
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more
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5. Crossing the Line
By: Tia Fisher
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more
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6. Choose Love
By: Nicola Davies
4.13
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. … read more
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7. The Boy Lost in the Maze
By: Joseph Coelho
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more
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8. Safiyyah's War
By: Hiba Noor Khan
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more
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9. 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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10. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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11. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
12. You Don’t Know What War Is
By: Yeva Skalietska
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as t… read more
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13. When Shadows Fall
By: Sita Brahmachari
3.70
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A heart-breaking and poignant novel from award-winning author Sita Brahmachari. Kai, Orla and Zak g… read more
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14. Medusa
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more
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"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."-Jessie Burton, Medusa
"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"-Jessie Burton, Medusa
15. White Bird
By: R.J. Palacio
4.50
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
In R. J. Palacio's collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, reader… read more
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"Solo se detiene la maldad cuando por fin las personas se unen para acabar con ella."-R.J. Palacio, White Bird
"We are not defined by our mistakes, but by what we do after we've learned from them."-R.J. Palacio, White Bird
"You see, Julian, it always takes courage to be kind. But in those days, when such kindness could cost you everything - your freedom, your life - Kindness becomes a miracle. It becomes that light in t…"-R.J. Palacio, White Bird
16. When Life Gives You Mangos
By: Kereen Getten
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The story about a young girl who can't remember anything from her previous summer after a hurricane… read more
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"Somehow, they suit each other, Rudy and Eldorath. They have the same imagination, and it’s as if they have been waiting for each other their whole lives."-Kereen Getten, When Life Gives You Mangos
17. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
By: Kwame Alexander
4.32
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more
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"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
18. The Song Walker
By: Zillah Bethell
4.16
Format: None pages, None
"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more
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19. A Kind of Spark
By: Elle McNicoll
4.52
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more
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"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
20. Needle
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more
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21. The Light in Everything
By: Katya Balen
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more
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22. Birdsong
By: Katya Balen
4.31
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The blackbirds’ song uplifts and restores in this captivating novella from one of the most exciting… read more
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23. The Blue Book of Nebo
By: Manon Steffan Ros
4.16
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more
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"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
24. The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
By: Emma Carroll
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
It only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, fro… read more
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25. Welcome to Trashland
By: Steve Cole
3.60
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Theo lives in a vast dumping ground got broken electronics in Ghana. He searches the trash for meta… read more
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26. Seven Ghosts
By: Chris Priestley
3.95
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Jake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to a stately house for a to… read more
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27. Glitter Boy
By: Ian Eagleton
4.60
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Eleven-year-old James loves dancing, poetry and Mariah Carey. His teacher, Mr Hamilton, is getting … read more
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28. The Climbers
By: Keith Gray
3.58
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In this compelling story of teenage rivalry and friendship, award-winning author Keith Gray capture… read more
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29. The Battle of Cable Street
By: Tanya Landman
4.05
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney, where Elsie and her brother Mikey are growing… read more
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30. Home Ground
By: Alan Gibbons
3.46
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Sam's team are edging closer to the bottom of the league this season and team captain Jordan's bad … read more
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31. Dropping Beats
By: Nathanael Lessore
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A hilarious and heartfelt young YA contemporary debut about the misadventures of an aspiring young … read more
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