Quentin Jacobsen − Q to his friends− is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children‚ they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school‚ Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber−cool.
One night‚ Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo‚ dressed as a ninja‚ persuades him to partake in several hours of mayhem. Then she vanishes. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance‚ Q follows Margo′s string of elaborate clues − including a poem about death.
Q′s friends‚ Radar‚ Ben and Lacey‚ help with the search‚ and a post turns up on a website: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. The race is on!
After an epic drive through the night‚ they catch up with Margo‚ and Q learns first−hand that the way you think about a person isn′t the way they actually are.
Gift Ideas for Teens: Real World Novels
Six Impossible Things
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
A funny, emotionally honest story of first love, with a fairytale backbeat.
Fourteen year old nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with a reversal of family fortune, moving house, new school hell, a mother with a fai... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Day
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A beautiful, haunting novel from the author of the multi-awarding winning The Red Shoe. Set in 1967, and imbued with the atmosphere and psychological intrigue of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
There were only eleven of them, li... Buy or find out more →
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... Buy or find out more →
All I Ever Wanted
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
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Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go—anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won’t get off the couch, and two brothers in... Buy or find out more →
Paper Towns
$15.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Quentin Jacobsen − Q to his friends− is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children‚ they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school‚ Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber−cool.... Buy or find out more →
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing... Buy or find out more →
Shortlist for the Silver Inky 2009
Exposure
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Winner of the 2090 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The third Paul Faustino novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall... Revered as a national hero, m... Buy or find out more →
Skim
$24.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
The time is the early 1990s, the setting a girls' academy in Toronto. Enter "Skim," aka Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kil... Buy or find out more →
Paper Towns
$15.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Quentin Jacobsen − Q to his friends− is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children‚ they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school‚ Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber−cool.... Buy or find out more →
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
$14.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
The Hunger Games
$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Winner of the 2009 Silver Inky Award for international teenage fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to... Buy or find out more →
