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Jessica Harrow is dead… but her journey has only just begun. Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination

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Simidele is one of the Mami Wata, mermaids duty-bound to collect the souls of those who die at sea and bless their journeys back home to the Supreme Creator. But when a living boy is thrown overboard a slave ship, Simi saves his life, going against an ancient decree and bringing terrible danger to the mami wata.

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Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now.

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Follows the history of the LGBTQ+ movement and it's achievements in campaigning for equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community.

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A collection of poems that focus on one week in a secondary school.

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Follows the story of a young boy going into year 6, dealing with a failing friendship, an ill younger brother and his own mental demons.

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Twelve year old Izzy tries to deal with her dad coming out as transgender, as well as the school drama production and friendship dramas.

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A modern classic whose influence can still be felt in contemporary literature, Walker's searing exploration of both white racism and violent Black patriarchy in the first half of the twentieth century is a uniquely powerful reading experience.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (series)

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (series)

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A boy enrols at a Wizard school and has amazing adventures.

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A young boy wins a visit to a magical sweet factory where he meets a range of strange characters.

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Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

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Follows a young boy as he escapes from a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied Poland in search of his parents.

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Jane Austen's classic love story following the romantic fortunes of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters.

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A young boy with a stammer dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.

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A graphic novel in free verse, encompassing the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter action of 2020, from the perspective of a teenager quarantined with his family.

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Kuang's stunningly wrought novel is a compulsive dystopia about the power of language and the evils of authoritarianism, represented by the looming titular tower of translation.

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A young girl who busted an end-of-summer party after being raped by an older boy is ostracized by her friends and so retreats into her own head, unable to articulate what happened to her.

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A wry and humorous guide to the human body by doctor, comedian, and author Adam Kay.

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A teenage girl tries to re-build her life after being released from prison for the murder of her best friend when she was ten years old.

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Recounts the events that led to the lives of two Californian teenagers - one agender and the other black - being irrevocably changed when one sets fire to the other for wearing a skirt.

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Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.

But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.

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Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.

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An evacuated boy builds a relationship with the gorilla at the zoo owned by the woman with whom he's been billeted.

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"Life on the Refrigerator Door" is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year.

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To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best-known as Auggie Pullman's classroom bully. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War.

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By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents.

A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.

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CHERUB is not James Bond. There are no master criminals or high-tech gadgets. CHERUB kids live in the real world. They slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

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A poignant narrative that delves into the aftermath of World War II, focusing on the experiences of three young Holocaust survivors in the Lake District.

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Raina deals with the highs and lows of school life and friendship whilst contending with a stomach problem that doesn't want to go away.

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Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party.

No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew. That means someone is lying... And that Daisy's time is running out.

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A serial killer is burning people alive amongst ancient stone circles in this deeply disturbing and thoroughly engrossing thriller.

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From the eating habits of a marauding T-Rex to deceased Facebook users, the creator of the hugely popular webcomic answers the absurd, eccentric and inspired questions of the general public using level-headed science in this simply addictive book.

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A boy from the non-magical mortal world joins a girl in the hidden, magical world of the Archipelago to restore the magic that will save both worlds.

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When Sunny steps into Easton's Gym in the aftermath of a racist attack, he finds the community he's been desperately seeking and a relationship that helps him heal. But racial tensions are rising in the city, and when a Far Right march turns violent, Sunny is forced to make the hardest choice of all.

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In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege.Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The headmaster lies wounded in the library, unable to help his trapped students and staff. Outside, a police psychiatrist must identify the gunmen, while parents gather desperate for news. In three intense hours, all must find the courage to stand up to evil and save the people they love.

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When an American-style residential camp is set up in the grounds of an English stately home, the teenage camp counsellors find that all is not what it seems.

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An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family could be yours.

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Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses.

Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger...

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A girl tries to escape the opressively strict and abusive family life she experiences dominated by her alcoholic father.

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Overlaying a wonderful supernatural gloss on the streets and landmarks of the capital, Aaronovitch provides a thrillingly exciting opening mystery for his detective/apprentice wizard protagonist in the opening instalment of the Rivers of London series.

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classic tale about an unlikely and unassuming hero caught up in a perilous quest to steal a dragon's hoard and while doing so finds a magical ring.

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A teenager living in the repressive regime of 1989 Romania faces the choice whether to inform on his family to save their lives.

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When Empress and Aniya switch bodies on their 16th birthday, they learn a valuable lesson about the importance of friendship.

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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials Trilogy)

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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials Trilogy)

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After her friend is taken a girl begins a journey with her animal companion through a dangerous country of ice and witches to find him.

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A boy struggling with OCD, starts at a new at school and learns to cope with the help of friendship and understanding.

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A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives.

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A prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

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The classic romantic story about of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

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Boasting concepts and characters that have passed into the national fabric, Adams’s mind-blowingly imaginative absurdist spin on science fiction makes the transition from radio to novel with consummate ease.

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Things get very chaotic very quickly for a young teenager the day when his 'phone breaks one morning before school.

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A survivor of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 shares his feelings of guilt with his granddaughter after telling her the story of what happened on that day, and subsequent days and years.

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A boy hoping to make it to the world of big league football is set back by the break up of his parents.

Verse format is light and easy to read. Charming tale with lots of word play, punning jokes and likeable male lead. More than a football story!

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Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure.

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Orwell's powerfully unnerving and enduring allegory of oppression and rebellion.

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Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s astonishing visual memoir of growing up in Iran. Intertwining the intimate with the political and compelling drama with warm, knowing humour, Persepolis is a continual revelation.
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Funder’s award-winning book leads the reader on a dizzying journey into the underbelly of the former East Germany.

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After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he was found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, (and he's a dog).

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In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

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After a sixteen-year-old American boy is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison, he struggles to find a way to keep true to himself.

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Hello, Niveus High. It's me. Who am I? That's not important. All you need to know is... I'm here to divide and conquer. - Aces.

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When Achilles is sent to war in the wake of Helen of Sparta's kidnap, his friend Patroclus goes with him out of fear and love.

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A fantasy adventure in which cities roam the country demolishing smaller towns and looking for relics and technology of the Ancients.

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When strange plant spores begin destroying buildings and killing people, a young boy and others strive to survive in their tower block in south London.

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Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

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In an alternative London in which the British Empire still exists and foreigners are segregated, a young boy and girl work with the mysterious being called Tyger to open a mythical gateway and bring about social change.

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On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?

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Thousands of years ago, a powerful and malevolent force conjured a demon: a demon so evil that it could only be contained in the body of a ferocious bear, a demon determined to destroy the world. Only one boy can stop it ...

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Max, Leo and Elsa are three friends in Vienna in 1936, whose lives are transformed by the course of events over the next nine years.

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The Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways.

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A boy who has lived for a thousand years, stuck at the age of 11, strives to find a place in the world where he belongs.

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The granddaughter of Baba Yaga yearns to change her destiny which ties her to her grandmother's enchanted house which moves from place to place at will.

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Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle. But when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

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Set during the end of World War 2, a group of refugees escape Germany by ship.

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Wry, witty and very funny diary-style story packed with doodles and comic strips about the frustration trickster god Loki feels at having to live trapped in the body of a weedy eleven-year-old boy.

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Follows the romance between Romanian refugee Nicu, and Jess, whose home life is overshadowed by violence.

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A teen girl grieving the loss of her best friend investigates a schoolgirl ghost haunting her cousins' house

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When a flu wipes out most of the population, strangers Jamie and Andrew form a bond while fighting for survival in a changed world.

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Two teenagers are chosen to be apprentice scythes, trained to kill people in a world where no one can die naturally.

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A boy has to hide from his friends and teachers the fact that he and his mum are living in a van.

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Four teenagers are suspected of murder when a fellow classmate dies during the detention they were all in.

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A heartfelt saga about Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women whose friendship shines with hope and humanity against the backdrop of war and destruction.

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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.

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"Touching the Void" is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes.

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A boy feels neglected when his baby sister is ill, but he makes two new friends - a confident home-educated neighbour and a strange creature that lives in the shed.

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Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

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Using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history.

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Classic story about a boy whose life is changed by a mysterious benefactor.

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Autobiography of a teenage Pakistani school pupil and education activist who survived an assassination attempt.

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Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule : kill or be killed.

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How friendship may be difficult or even impossible when there are racial tensions and prejudices in peoples from different cultures and countries.

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Liccle Bit's friend McKay struggles to balance loyalty to his neighbourhood gang with loyalty to his family.

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Epic story of a man who trades in illegitimate children and a child who survives and is reunited with his gentleman father.

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Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.

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A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on.

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Tells the real life story of two Somalian brothers who grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp.

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A 16-year-old girl is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend.

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Excellent, thorough guide to the basics of politics, with plenty of appropriate examples. Format and style are accessible and clear

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A boy is visited by ghosts of family and friends he knew as he takes the lift down from his family's flat to exact revenge on the person who shot his brother dead in a gangland attack.

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Follows three children from different points in history as they flee their home countries during times of turmoil to find safety abroad.

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George Orwell's famous Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day.