Lex Trent is a seventeen year old boy who has already spent years being a thief, burglar, and con artist. Does he have a conscience? Will he survive in an extraordinary world divided into Gods, monsters and humans.

Review: Lex Trent is well spoken and honest looking by day, and the best thief and con artist in the world at all other times. The fact that the world is shaped like a weightl ...

 Raina Telgemeier taps right into the most amusing and painful memories of being a teenager with her graphic novel about her experience of getting braces, having crushes on boys and being traumatised by rude siblings and catty girlfriends. And an earthquake.

Review: Readers may recognise her artwork from her adaptations of Ann M. Martin's Baby-S ...

Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes, is transported to the merchant city of Classe in Talia (real-life Ravenna). Here she discovers she is a Stravagante who can travel through time using her talisman, a pouch of silver mosaic tiles. In Classe, Isabel meets Flavia who is a successful female merchant and mother to a pirate. When the city comes under attack from the fierce Gate People, ...

A sequel to 'The Way I See It', 'Talk to the Hand' continues Nicole's account of her very full life, and her tips for overcoming setbacks and crises and makes apparent just why all who are in contact with her find her inspiring, funny and unforgettable.

At eleven Nicole was diagnosed with spinal cancer, and takes her story from age eighteen to the present. The detail ...

 Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. To escape this desolate world, Lou often goes to Austerlitz station just to watch people showing emotion. There she meets a homeless girl called No, only a few years older than herself. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until one day N ...

1950’s American Deep South is the setting for Tony Johnston’s 'Bone by Bone by Bone', and the theme is racial violence. Against this heavy backdrop, Johnston tells a small story of two boys, one white, one black, who become best friends. White David shares all he can with black Malcolm, including repeating the anatomy lessons of his doctor father. The irony is that David, t ...

DeShawn lives on the Frederick Douglass Project, a run-down estate, dominated by drugs and gang violence, in the wrong part of New York. Dropping out of school and joining a gang is the norm and every kid knows someone who’s died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis. DeShawn is smart enough to know that he should stay in school and keep away from the gangs but while his friends have dru ...

Ballydog is the baddest town in the world - now under threat of retribution from a vast sea monster, unless three very different teenagers can save it...

Review "The Badness of Ballydog" is a modern-day take on Ireland's tradition of myth and legend. A sea monster of leviathan proportions is on its way to wreak destruction on Ballydog. Past and present badness has ensured ...

 A novel about bullying in a rural school from the narrative point of view of three of the teenagers involved - the victim, Gary; a new girl to the school, Zoe, and a friend of the bully, David. 

In his first novel, teacher turned author Jim Carrington portrays convincingly the voices of his three protagonists and does get into their minds in order to express the angst ...