A fast-paced fantasy YA novel that explores vital themes in today's society – such as climate change and the environment – within the context of an exciting page-turner. This timely adventure story will empower and excite young people at the same time
In the beginning, Celia seemed like a normal kid, but then... I crept out onto the balcony while Mum, Dad and Big Olive talked...."I've seen how she is and I'm almost certain she is going to turn out like Hetty," said Big Olive. "It's the wohunk streak..."
A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do.Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps them reconstruct the right codes for the portal between worlds. But it's soon clear they want something more: a gateway for invasion, because this version o...
Climate catastrophe leaves the people of Earth fighting for oxygen in this gripping dystopian thriller from bestselling sci-fi author Alastair Chisholm. Sparrow lives in the world after the Reek. The atmosphere is toxically polluted, and Axel Brodie, the tech billionaire behind Zephyr Industries, is cashing in as the only supplier of clean air. Sparrow is struggling to help her family survive until her brilliant inventor friend, Miriam Fenn, comes up with a new...
The terrifying impact of global warming on vulnerable lives is laid bare in this gripping tale of survival from internationally bestselling author Steve Cole. Gayla is trapped when floodwater pours into her bedroom in a residential centre for kids with disabilities. The other children have been evacuated while Gayla waited for her father, but now the streets around are cut off and she’s all alone with no way out. Junjun’s makeshift shack has been washe...
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
The Lightning Tree (The Ni Revolution Trilogy, #1)
by Lene Fogelberg
Follow Bertie Bottle as he is swept away into the ocean after being discarded on the beach. He meets Thom the Turtle who is experiencing first-hand the problems with litter, which causes harm both to him and other spectacular sea creatures. A thought-provoking rhyming picture book for young children, highlighting the problem with litter and single uses plastics. “Everyone can make a positive difference to the world we live in. Small changes can have a massive impact. What change can you make?”...
A classic he-said-she-said romantic comedy, with bonus content including a Q&A with the author.All I've ever wanted is for Juli Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off – you know, just give me some space.Juli has been making Bryce's life hell from the moment they met. All he wants is to live a normal life, without some crazy person mooning after him.The first day I met Bryce Loski, I flipped. Honestly, one look at him and I became a lunatic. It's his eyes.But she doesn't see it that way. In...
Seedfolks (Joanna Cotler Books) (Audio Bookshelf Unabridged)
by Paul Fleischman
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
The epic conclusion to the fantasy adventure that started with Zo and the Forest of Secrets. After the mysterious Council tried to wipe Zo’s memory, she’s been hiding her powers from them. With her friend Adri gone, she must set out to find the truth… and save who she can along the way. On a mind-bending journey that leads her to old friends and new foes, Zo finds herself at a secret school for children with powers just like her. Does the Invisible Island hold the answers she needs? “Futuris...
The Greta Thunberg revolution comes true for the raccoons of a small suburban city when they rise up, throw out their government, and start an ecological commonwealth. Clutch, Bandit, and Touchwit are prepared to die for a free, healthy and diverse city. But to earn their self-respect as leading citizens they must overcome their father Meatbreath, an autocrat obsessed with multiplying himself in a host of weaponised children. Will the three heroes be able to use the powers they have inherited fr...
A stunningly atmospheric story for young readers from the award-winning author of The Sound of Whales. 'Thomson's ambitious plot, tight, poetic prose and feel for history is a breath of island air.' THE TIMES on THE SOUND OF WHALES Innis Munro is walking home across the bleak wilderness of Nin Island when he hears the chilling howl of a wolf. But there are no wolves on the island – not since they were hunted to extinction, centuries a...
A Girl of the Limberlost (G.K. Hall large print perennial bestseller collection) (A Dell Yearling classic)
by Gene Stratton-Porter
Elnora Comstock is a poor girl, living with her widowed mother on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. She begins high school despite lack of money and her painfully unfashionable dress. She faces cold neglect from her mother, a woman ruined by the death of her husband. Eventually, Elnora wins her mother's love. She then meets and falls in love with a young man who is already engaged.
Reality can never quite compare with the online world of Demon Streets for Verity. There she gets to learn new demon fighting skills and have fun. In reality she goes to school to learn useless skills and her fashion designer mother, Saffron Fibbs, is operating punishment by chores (for a small boy related misdemeanor).
Miho's backyard had always been the sea. The creatures within it were an endless source of fascination. But when the sea steals away her small family, she finds herself the ward of an uncle she has never met and submerged in a world she has never known: Japan. From the city of Nagoya to the seaside town of Goza, Miho struggles to fit in and navigate the language, the culture and her own grief. It is in Goza that she discovers her surprising family history and finds new teachers. She is befriende...
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.