New Fiction in Library:
The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis
(Under School Spinner)
Under Taliban law
women and girls are
not allowed to leave
the house on their
own. With no man to go out,
Parvana and her mother are
prisoners in their own home.
Parvana must pretend to be a boy to
save her family.
Rebound
Kwame Alexander
(811 ALE)
It's 1988. When
Charlie Bell gets into
trouble one too
many times he's packed off to stay
with his grandparents for the
summer. There his cousin Roxie
introduces him to a whole new
world: basketball.
One of Us is Lying
Karen McManus
(Young Adult Spinner)
Five students go into detention; one of them ends up murdered. Everyone is a suspect.
Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi (Under School Spinner) A stunning world of dark magic and danger in this West
African-inspired fantasy debut. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise.
Dumplin’ Julie Murphy (Under School Spinner) The #1 New York Times bestseller and feel-good YA of the year—about
Willowdean Dixon, the fearless, funny, and totally unforgettable heroine who takes on her small town’s beauty pageant.
Dear Martin Nic Stone (Under School Spinner) Raw, captivating, and
undeniably real, Nic
Stone boldly tackles
American race
relations in this stunning debut.
Dark Artifices
Trilogy
Cassandra Clare
(813 CLAR)
Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed. Emma
Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, on a mission to avenge her parents' death. A supernatural thriller with vampires and witches.
Internment Samira Ahmed (Under School Spinner) Set in a horrifying 'fifteen minutes in the future' United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is
forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents.
Toffee Sarah Crossan (823 CROSS) Carnegie Medal Winner
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds
herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee.
The Gifted, the Talented, and Me William Sutcliffe
(Under School Spinner) Fifteen-year-old Sam is not a famous vlogger, he's never
gone viral, and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. In fact he's ordinary and proud of it.
A brilliantly funny look at fitting in, falling out and staying true to your own averageness.
Rayne & Delilah’s
Midnite Matinee
Jeff Zentner
(Under School Spinner) Josie and Delia are best friends and co-hosts on their own
public access TV show, Midnite Matinee. They dress as vampires, perform daft skits involving skeleton raves and dog weddings, and show the weekly so-bad-it's-good low-budget horror movie. But the end of senior year is coming, and Josie is torn between pursuing her television dreams in a new city or staying making TV with her BFF.
The Call
Peadar O’Guilin
(Under School Spinner) Every teenager in
Ireland is training to
survive The Call.
Kick the Moon Muhammad Khan (Under School Spinner) Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE's are looming
and his teachers just won't let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don't care about any of it. There's no space in Ilyas' life to just be a teenager.
A Change is Gonna Come Patrice Lawrence (823 LAWR) Featuring top Young
Adult authors and
introducing a host of
exciting new voices, this anthology
of stories and poetry from BAME
writers on the theme of change is a
long-overdue addition to the YA
scene.
The Truth About Keeping Secrets Savannah Brown (813 BROS) Sydney's dad is unexpectedly dead.
Sydney believes his death was anything but an accident. And when the threatening texts begin, she's sure of it.
On the Come Up Angie Thomas (Young Adult Spinner)
The award-winning author of The Hate U Give returns with a powerful story about
hip hop, freedom of speech – and fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you.
Leah on the Offbeat Becky Albertalli (Young Adult Spinner)
Leah Burke - girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier's
best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - takes centre stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.
Two Can Keep a
Secret
Karen McManus
(Under School Spinner)
Two teenagers are dead. Two murders unsolved. A killer who
claims to be coming back. Ellery and Malcolm know it's hard to let go when you don't have closure. As they race to unravel what happened, they realise every secret has layers in Echo Ridge. The truth might be closer to home than either of them want to believe.
The Wall John Lanchester (Under School Spinner)
Kavanagh begins his
life patrolling the
Wall. If he's lucky, if
nothing goes wrong,
he only has two years of this, 729
more nights. The Wall is a dystopian
look at a post-climate catastrophe
walled-off Britain.
Paper Avalanche Lisa Williamson (823 WILL)
Ro Snow is the girl
no-one notices.
Besides, even if
anyone tried to call
on her they'd discover that no. 56
isn't her house at all - it's her decoy
house, where she tells people to
pick her up and drop her off so she
can hide who she really is and where
she really lives.
The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods Emily Barr (823 BARRE)
Arty has always lived
in a commune
hidden in the forests
of south India. But her happy life,
separate from the rest of the world,
is shattered after a terrible event.
Night Flights
Philip Reeve (823 REE) In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorised cities attack and devour
each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang isn't afraid.
Chasing the Stars Malorie Blackman (Under School Spinner) Olivia and her
brother are heading
alone back to Earth.
Nathan is part of a
community heading in the opposite
direction. When their lives
unexpectedly collided, Nathan and
Olivia are instantly attracted to each
other. Surrounded by deception and
murder, is it possible to live out a
happy ever after?
Salt to the Sea Ruta Sepetys (Under School Spinner) Based on a true story
from the Second
World War. When
the German ship the
Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in port in
early 1945 it had over 9000 civilian
refugees, including children, on
board. Nearly all were drowned.
Modern classics:
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Sue Townsend (823 TOW) Writing about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual' and, of course, Pandora, Adrian's painfully honest diary is hilarious reading.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon (823 HAD) This is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, our narrator, Christopher, is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness (Under School Spinner) Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence. Which is impossible.
His Dark Materials Trilogy, and the Book of Dust Philip Pullman (823 PUL)
The epic story Pullman tells is not only a spellbinding adventure featuring armoured polar bears, magical devices, witches and daemons, it is also an audacious and profound re-imagining of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Classics:
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes (Under School Spinner) Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose experimental transformation preceded his, dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury (813 BRA) This hauntingly prophetic classic novel is set in a not-too-distant future where all books are banned and then burned by a special task force. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams (823 ADA) It's an ordinary Thursday for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly to make way for a hyperspace express, and his best friend has just announced he's an alien. Now they're hurtling through space with their towels and a book inscribed with the words: DON'T PANIC.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (813 LEE)
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.
Recent Winners of the CILIP Carnegie Medal
2019 WINNER The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo (Under School Spinner)
Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. But X has
secrets – her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the
notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed.
And a slam poetry club that will pull those secrets into
the spotlight.
2018 Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean 2017 Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 2016 One by Sarah Crossan 2015 Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman 2014 The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks 2013 Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner 2012 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 2011 Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness 2010 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 2009 Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd 2008 Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve 2007 Just in Case by Meg Rosoff 2005 Tamar by Mal Peet 2004 Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce 2003 A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly 2002 Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech 2001 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by
Terry Pratchett 2000 The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo