For fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comes a teenage zombie assasin who is taking on the humor and horror of high school one monster at a time. Kate Grable is horrified to find out that the football coach is giving the team steroids. Worse yet, the steriods are having an unexpected effect, turning hot gridiron hunks into mindless flesh-eating zombies. No one is safe--not her cute crush Aaron, not her dorky brother, Jonah . . . not even Kate! She's got to find an antidote--before her entire hig...
"Written in short, episodic bursts awash with snarling dialogue this pacily energetic first novel is highly readable." - "Book for Keeps" magazine. Declan Murray has made mistakes. Caught up in a downward spiral of graffiti-spraying and theft, and narrowly escaping death in a warehouse fire which takes the lives of his friends, he has been given a second chance - a re-start programme in the Canadian mountains. But second chances aren't easy. For a start he is being tormented by the ghosts of the...
Ground Training (Children's Continuous) (Pine Hollow, #10)
by Bonnie Bryant
"You had an accident", Miss P. was saying, her hands on my shoulders so I couldn't climb to my feet."You hit your head". The diving platform is thirty-three feet up, higher than a third story balcony. Expert at the most breathtaking dives, Bonnie Chamberlain captures the best scores in every heat, and she is bound for Olympic trials. She has never felt fear -- until now. One slip, one inexplicable mistake, and it's all over. Or is it? Determined to compete, Bonnie forces herself back into her...
Ghost Striker! (The Tigers) (Tiger, #6)
by Janet Burchett and Sara Vogler
The Tigers are facing a difficult away match against a tough team, but they have got the special help of their ghost goalie or have they? Things look bad when an old opponent arrives - intent on revenge!
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and...
When American teen Kit Bridges moves to England to attend an elite equestrian boarding school, neither she nor her new home will ever be quite the same. Trying to move on from her mother’s death and afraid of riding after a bad fall, plucky fourteen-year-old Kit Bridges doesn’t quite know what to expect when her father takes a position at The Covington Academy, a prestigious boarding school in England. Things are looking up when Kit meets her cool, possibly secretly royal new roommate, Anya, an...
Meet Joey; a talented sixteen-year-old footballer who is hoping to be taken on by the local professional football team. He lives next door to Sal, a football-mad tomboy whom he's known most of his life. She's a couple of years younger than him and really is his best friend (only out of school though, he's too cool to be seen with a Year 9 girl). They share a great banter and love of football. As the story progresses it's also very clear that Sal is madly in love with Joey but he's completely obl...
"THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG - IN THE BIG TIME!"Andrew and Chris Weston have both been invited to attend a special summer coaching course at one of the country's top football clubs. The brothers are determined to give it their best shot, hoping to impress United's scouts. Another bonus is the chance to be ball boys at a World Cup qualifying match between England and Holland. But the big event turns out to be even more explosive than anyone could ever have guessed...!
When Mia Cox finds out she can’t donate her kidney to save her younger sister’s life, she doesn’t hesitate to jump on a plane to New York, convinced she can talk their estranged birth mother, Carmen, into donating hers instead. She doesn’t know the city or how she’ll find Carmen when she gets there, but she has to try. If she doesn’t, Maddy’s going to die. On the cross-country flight, Mia figures she’ll have more than enough time to make a plan for when she landswhere she’ll go, where she’ll...
An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Redeeming 6, the fourth book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh's extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover. The reader reaction to The Boys of Tommen says it all! 'This book wrecked me even further than I could've imagined, in all...
An epic and unforgettable love story begins in Saving 6, the third book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh's extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover. The reader reaction to The Boys of Tommen says it all! 'Absolute perfection. This book will ruin you' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I have no w...
Molly Motion (The Adventures of Molly Motion, #1)
by Chrissy Langdon
'Football matches can change in a matter of seconds. So too can lives.' Luke stands at the stern of the Stena Seacat, and stares down at Dun Laoghaire harbour below. His whole universe is about to alter. Ella is behind him, trials for Everton are ahead of him. He has no idea where the journey will take him but he can't wait to begin.This tremendous follow up to a powerful debut novel, The Stretford Enders, charts Luke's first love, football as he sets out to play for Everton and leave behind his...