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  “An atmospheric, satisfying YA sci-fi thriller” - Guardian “An ominous, evocative science-fiction thriller” - New Scientist Lily's emotional problems run deep - three miles deep. After she gets kicked out of school for her destructive behaviour, Lily agrees to an unusual fresh start: going with her mum to live at Deephaven, an experimental deep-sea mining rig and research station located at the bottom of the ocean. Lily...

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist in this romp through the city that never sleeps from the New York Times bestselling author of Since You’ve Been Gone.Two girls. One night. Zero phones.Kat and Stevie—best friends, theater kids, polar opposites—have snuck away from the suburbs to spend a night in New York City. They have it all planned out. They’ll see a play, eat at the city’s hottest restaurant, and have the best. Night. Ever. What could go wrong?Well. Kind of a l...

After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he sees his father out with another woman, high school senior Seth Baumgartner, who has a summer job at the country club and is preparing for a father-son golf tournament, launches a podcast in which he explores the mysteries of love.

Olivia spends her fourteenth year trying to adjust to her parents' divorce, watching the changes her widowed grandmother is going through, and discovering boys.

If I let you read mine, will you let me read yours? Forgotten Girl, a fifteen-year-old poet, is going through the most difficult time of her life the breakup of her parents, and her mom's resulting depression when she meets Random Boy, a hot guy who, like her, feels like an outcast and secretly writes poetry to deal with everything going on in his life. In The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy, the couple's poems come together to tell their unique love story. The two nameless...

Four friends from wildly different backgrounds have bonded over Dungeons & Dragons since the sixth grade. Now they're facing senior year and a major shift in their own universes. Math whiz Archie is struggling with his parents' divorce after his dad comes out as gay. Mari is terrified of her adoptive mother's life-altering news. Dante is carrying around a huge secret that is proving impossible to keep hidden. And when Sam gets dumped by the love of his life, everyone is ready to join him on a cr...

When 13-year-old Emma bumps into her old friend Abby on the bus one Saturday afternoon, she later realises that she was the last person to see Abby before her mysterious disappearance. Amidst the media frenzy and everyone's struggle to come to terms with the possibility of Abby's death, Emma starts a terrifying journey of her very own, as she uncovers things that lead to a discovery even the police have not thought of-A thrilling and memorable novel for readers of all abilities from 10 years up.

All Noah Mitchell wants is to meet his online crush, MagePants69, IRL. He knows the boy lives in the same small town, but his crush’s overprotective parent won’t ever let them meet. So on a hunch when M’s offline obligations start matching Noah’s mother’s rehearsals, Noah decide to join the musical for a shot at love. Used to being ignored at home and bullied at school, the theatre is even more than Noah bargained for. While Noah does get closer to his crush - Eli - Noah doesn’t want to risk re...

In 1918, having run away from the Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy makes her way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.

  "brave and intelligent" BookTrust BOOKTRUST TEENAGE PRIZE 2005 WINNER  SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL & WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD 2005 A book as blisteringly relevant as it was when published 20 years ago. Three children walked away from the edge of town one day - but only two of them came back . . . JJ was charged and convicted of murder. Six years later, she has now been released, and has a new identity. But is the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL An achingly funny, touching story for anyone who has been thrown in at the deep end. ‘Smart and funny. It will tug at your heartstrings’ Dawn O’Porter It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no idea how she'll cope when her dad announces that the family has to sell up and move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex. With his girlfriend. And her three kids. Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts, awkward encounter...