It is 1650 and a baby lies dead before it even drew breath. A young servant, terrified and alone, is accused of murder and sent to the gallows. Anne Green calls on God to show her innocence to the world before she is hanged. Hours later, surrounded by doctors preparing to dissect her, Anne’s eyelid flutters.

 Based on a true story of a girl who came back from the dead. In this ...

Synopsis: One inch from the wall of brown turf, he froze. "There's something here. In the earth. A hand." Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus find something that makes his heart stop. Curled up deep in the bog is the body of a child. And it looks as if she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother ...

Synopsis: “ My name is Jackson Jones. I stood and watched a teacher die. For the first time in my life I felt real shock...My whole body actually went numb. They say the brain is like a computer – well, my computer crashed.”

Review: From the first line of this novel, it is difficult not to be gripped by the direct, punchy voice of teenager Jackson Jones. ...

Synopsis: Who is the mysterious woman in white who Walter Hartwright meets very late one night on the road to London? How is she connected to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, who he must help to save from the evil clutches of Sir Percival Glyde and the mysterious yet wicked Count Fosco? The mystery must be solved if Laura is to escape from the men who threaten to harm her.

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Towards Freedom is the third in a trilogy and begins in 1951, in America, after Elli’s escape from Germany and the horrors of Auschwitz. The fact that this novel is autobiographical makes it all the more gripping to read. The reader is given realistic access to the events of 1939-1945 and beyond, through the eyes of a teenager who belonged to a one of the most discriminated races ...

eing sixteen is hard for anyone, but for Rosie Rushton's three characters there are added terrors. Lyall knows that his foster parents don't want him any more. He is filled with guilt, anger, grief and confusion as he relives his abandonment by his birth mother and the death of his little sister who was left alone in his care when he was a seven year old. Jay, bullied at school, lives w ...

Synopsis: Things are not looking up for our heroes. Will has found his father, only to lose him again. Lyra has been captured by Mrs Coulter, her mother, who is determined to stop her achieving her destiny, at any cost. The Magisterium wants to wipe out heresy and Lord Asriel is about to pick a fight with God. 

Review: Philip Pullman has been said to have courted contr ...

Thursday's Child is an outstanding and original story. It is a complex and haunting tale that will mesmerise readers of all ages. The narrative style and characterisation are excellent. The story is told from Harper's point of view but in a way that enables the reader to enter into the silent earthworld that her brother, Tin, inhabits as he seems to transofrm from his human for ...

Synopsis: The Crew didn't think things could ever get that bad again. They were seriously wrong. Things have calmed down for the Crew (Billy, Ellie, Della, Jas and Will) and life in the Ghetto is ticking on as usual. But things are about to kick-off all over again. The police have launched Operation Clean-up and dealers are regularly being pulled off the street and into the police st ...

This extraordinary book is written with such power and grace that readers may be tempted to stop and savour every paragraph. Wynne-Jones speaks with authority about surviving in the Canadian outback so that when his protagonist, fourteen-year old Burl Crow, fishes for food or builds a travois to transport his wounded father, the details feel exactly right. This deceptively simple tale of a teen ...