Young or old, everyone in Jen's life has a story to tell, a story of heartache and uncertainty. Love can't always stay. Jen's first encounters leave her fractured, reckless, no longer Jen, but Jinx.

A most unusual book. If one were to recount the events of Australian author Margaret Wild's novel Jinx as a chronology, it might well resemble the storyboard for ...

Synopsis: Where is she? Jade Henderson is missing, taken from her cot in the night. Stella Parfitt watches the police investigation unfold and begins to ask her own questions. Where was her mother that night? The woods hold a dark secret...

Review: Stella is not sure sometimes whether she or her mother is the adult. When her mother arrives home drunk, late and soaked from a ...

Although this trilogy does begin once upon a time and end happily ever after the pages in between are a far cry from the safety of a traditional fairytale. The stories deal with some dark material including the violent rape of Alice in Watching the Roses.

In The Tower Room, Megan is the Rapunzel in her tower who catches the eye of the young Science teacher, Simon F ...

The amount of fiction which examines the experience of unmarried adolescent mothers has increased in recent times, but novels considering the situation of teenage fathers are far fewer, Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody (1991) being one of the better known. If for no other reason then, Margaret Bechard's novel would be notable for providing another work in this under-represented are ...

Harrison’s story, told through the first person, is a stark reminder of the horror and brutality of war. His ‘no-holds barred’ style of writing drags the reader straight onto the Western Front from the outset. The persistent use of the present tense forces the reader to share every raid, rat encounter, lice infestation, and lack of rations, with the soldiers themselves. As reader ...

Looking around at people today, it's not hard to see where MT Anderson got his idea for his satire on modern communications. Teenagers text each other all day; colleagues email people at the next desk; for research, you can 'google' people, events or companies; people listen to personal stereos with a half-glazed look; and teenagers and office workers alike use instant messaging to ...

When Greg and Inderjit start working on their maths project together, they realise it adds up to more than just pie charts and histograms. They discover all about a nuclear aircraft crash in 1968. In the meantime Greg finds out about a more personal cover up in his family.

The disconcerting aspect of this book is that the issues it considers are so likely to be out there in reality, conc ...

Joan O'Neill has already proved to readers of her Daisy Chain War sequence that she is a warm, funny and empathetic writer who can bring ordinary teenage experience vividly to life.

 Growing up herself in Ireland in the 1950s, she has an insight into a life which has very similar concerns but totally different solutions to deal with the problems encountered by young adul ...

Bali Rai’s short stories are very finely crafted in a series of linked vibrant narratives, each with a distinct teenage voice telling what life is like for Asian, African Caribbean or White adolescents on city streets in Britain today. The contemporary reality of life, with its dangers, thrills and imaginings are laid bare for readers.

The title story, ‘Dominoes&rsquo ...

Matt, Becci, Sophie and Nathan are a bit of a foursome, even though Matt and Sophie are a real couple, and Becci only wishes that Nathan would notice she's not just Matt's little sister. They're all looking forward to the themed fancy dress party they're going to, getting in to the Christmas spirit, laughing, drinking...They've got futures, dreams, lives ahead of them...Noth ...