October Young Adult Fiction
The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks
$38.95 (Hardcover book / Hyperion )
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club. Her father's "Bunny Rabbit." A mildly geeky girl
attending a highly competitive boarding school.
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on h... More »
Dragon Dawn
$12.99 (Paperback book / Black Dog Books )
The story before Dragonkeeper...
Danzi is not yet 1,000 years old – a youngster in dragon terms.
There is much unrest in the provinces.
Soldiers are everywhere and the people are uneasy. It is a dangerous time for a dr... More »
Where The Streets Had A Name
$19.99 (Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan )
"I need to see Sitti Zeynab one last time. To know if I will have the courage to go ahead with my plan. The two nurses look frazzled and smile wearily at me. 'We must leave now,' they say in urgent tones. 'I won't be lon... More »
Review
Finnikin Of The Rock
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But th... More »
Love You Two
$18.95 (Paperback book / Random House )
'Then something shifted. I don't know when what used to make me content began to make me cringe; when my adoration of her turned to irritation. Was it adolescence? Was it a mother-daughter thing?'
Pina's friends think sh... More »
By Royal Command: Young Bond 5
$19.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )
Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plo... More »
The Resistance
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )
The year is 2140. Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. As an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked with infiltrating Pincent Pharma Corporation and find out what’s happening in the secret Longevity... More »
The Other Side Of The Island
$19.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
In the eighteenth glorious year of Enclosure, long after The Flood, a young girl named Honor moves with her parents to Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life on the tropical island is peaceful — there is no sadness and no ... More »
Review
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
$19.95 (Paperback book / Andersen Press )
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heart... More »
Review
Sprite Downberry
$14.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Right now, Sprite Downberry's life is pretty tough. Her dad's busy and away a lot, and her mum, Sunny, is very moody and unpredictable, so Sprite feels she can't tell her about the nasty girls at school. And Sprite is al... More »
The Exorsistah
$14.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )
After the creep who's married to her friend Kiki tries to assault her, Emme Vaughn finds herself in an all-night Walgreens at 3 a.m. with a quarter in her pocket and a rumble in her stomach. She sure does wish she'd gott... More »
Something In The World Called Love
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
It's true, there's something in the world called love. Esma felt it when she moved into the house with the blue stairs. There was Kara beside her, and Simon below with his room that looked out to the road - two roads act... More »
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
$19.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
There are six things very wrong with my life:
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I have one of those under–the–skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years.
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It is on my nose.
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I have a three–year–old sist... More »
The Declaration
$17.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Anna Covey is a 'Surplus'. She should not have been born. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Su... More »
I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You: The Gallagher Girls Book One
$16.99 (Paperback book / Lothian )
The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school - that is, it would be if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students... More »
Review
My Candlelight Novel
$17.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
The house is a crumbling two-storey weatherboard place, a guest house, of the cheapest and shabbiest kind. But there is something magical and other-worldly about it. Because it's on the river, in that place where earth a... More »
Stravaganza City Of Masks
$16.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Imagine you are one moment ill in bed, and the next transported
to a world that is awash with deception, intrigue and
glamour.
In a spine-tingling discovery, Lucien finds out that he is in fact
a 'Stravagante' - somebod... More »
Murderers Thumb
$19.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
Adam Statkus and his mother are new to Falcon Ridge, a dairy farming community in rural Australia. Within days of their arrival Adam discovers the body of a girl buried in a silage pit. Is it one of the teenagers who wen... More »