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Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days
Derek Landy

$19.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

What can we say, without giving too much away?

Not much, is the answer.

But what we CAN say is that this book is hilarious, it′s tense, and it′s packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces you′ve come to expect. There′s a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But that′s not all. There′s also the little fact of the Big Bad, the uber-baddy who′s going to come along and really, really destroy the world. (Really.) And what we learn about that villain in this book will literally make your jaw fall off and your hair go white with shock. (Not really.)

Will Skulduggery make it out of the Faceless Ones′ dimension? Who knows. The problem is, he may not have much to come back to...

Top 10 Teen Books - Feb '10
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  4. Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark DaysDerek Landy
  5. HourglassClaudia Gray
  6. February: Conspiracy 365 Book TwoGabrielle Lord
  7. Breaking DawnStephenie Meyer
  8. Crocodile Tears: Alex Rider Book EightAnthony Horowitz
  9. Brigands M.C. Cherub Book ElevenRobert Muchamore
  10. The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins

New Middle Fiction

Smiles To Go
Jerry Spinelli

$14.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

Everything changes the day ninth-grader Will Tuppence learns one startling fact: protons-those tiny atomic particles, the building-blocks to the building-blocks of life-can die. The one thing that was so certain in this ... More »

The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester

$14.99 (Paperback book / Macmillan )

Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wits end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents farm to attend a top-... More »


Nanny Piggins And The Runaway Lion: Book Three
R.A. Spratt

$14.95 (Paperback book / Random House )

A curly tale of revenge, rescue and jam-filled doughnuts.

With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lio... More »

Review

Who Wants To Be A Billionaire The Floods Book Nine
Colin Thompson

$14.95 (Paperback book / Random House )

The world is in a recession and millions of people have lost millions of dollars.

And just when things are about to get even worse, the Floods set up Summer School in New York and take control. Hooray, help is at hand - ... More »



Crossover Fiction

The Pact
Jodi Picoult

$17.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Emily Gold and Chris Harte are soul mates. They have lived next door since they were born, sharing everything from chicken pox to Chinese food, and in high school their friendship blossoms into something more. Then a mid... More »

Dr No
Ian Fleming

$16.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Dr No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp.

Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable girl Friday, have been cap... More »


Spy Who Loved Me
Ian Fleming

$16.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is ... More »

Submarine
Joe Dunthorne

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Meet Oliver Tate, Fifteen years old.  Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts.  Like boxing.  Dad is in the blue corner') and that his mother is having an affair with her capoeir... More »



The Prize for Young Adult Fiction 2009 Shortlist

Something In The World Called Love
Sue Saliba

$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

The Two Pearls Of Wisdom
Alison Goodman

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

The Beginner's Guide To Living
Lia Hills

$19.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )


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