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Muddle and Win
Muddle is a demonic but well-meaning wart. Win is an over-achieving, sharp-suited angel. Both of them have been sent by their respective employers to capture the soul of Sally Jones.
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Henry Tumour
Henry Tumour is certainly a memorable book: it's funny, shocking, and thought-provoking, too. Just be warned that the language is extreme throughout!
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Don't Call Me Ishmael
Ishmael Leseur is cursed with a name that demands attention - mostly from class bully Barry Bagsley and his gang of goons.
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How to be Popular
For five years, 'Doing a Steph Landry' is shorthand for dorkiness - but no longer! With How to be Popular as her guide, Steph's out to take control and get the gorgeous guy.
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Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor is a warm and funny piece of literary comedy that is laidback like the summer it depicts and staunchly proud of its identity.
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Me, Suzy P
Fourteen-year-old 'disaster magnet' Suzy heroically struggles with her name, her hair, her family and her love life in this hugely enjoyable comic novel.
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Sundae Girl
All teenagers are embarrassed by their parents but Jude feels she has more reason than most to cringe when hers are around her in public.
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Six Words and a Wish
This gentle book is filled with humour and teenage banter
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Dead End in Norvelt
In a small town populated by larger-than-life characters, truth meets fantasy as this hilarious, semi-autobiographical novel charts the progress of Jack’s summer
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A Month with April-May
Follow bored, angry yet irresistible teen April-May as she negotiates a new school and a new family situation in her own unique way.
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Dark Lord: The Teenage Years
The Dark Lord falls to earth, crash-landing in a suburban car park in the body of a teenage boy, spitting out poisonous mucus
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The Ant Colony
Sam and Bo reveal their pasts in alternate chapters, each gradually facing the dysfunctional relationships and traumatic incidents which have triggered their current unlikely friendship.
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Geekhood: Close Encounters of the Girl Kind
This is a very funny book about the trials and tribulations of growing up, portraying adolescent confusion and fear of change with humour and sensitivity.
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Swim the Fly
Matt, Coop and Sean have been friends forever. Each summer, they set themselves a goal, and this year tops the lot - they must see a real live naked girl.
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
Derek Landy’s series about Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective, reaches its sixth entertaining installment
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The Pig Who Saved the World by Gryllus the Pig
In the second instalment of The Grylliad, Gryllus the Pig is hoping to be returned to his true human form but a new threat to the universe means his plans are put on hold...
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It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!
Georgia Nicholson's account of her life with her friends, her family, her eccentric cat Angus and her on-off relationship with 'sex god' Robbie is colourful and convincing.
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The Mourning Emporium
The sequel to Lovric's The Undrowned Child moves from Venice to the dark, narrow backstreets of Victorian London, and evil plot to supplant the Royal succession.
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Divine Freaks
The first 13 years of Kitty Slade’s life are a ghost-free zone - until one day, during a biology class, Kitty discovers she can see dead people.
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Flour Babies
As part of a Child Development project, each boy in Class 4C is given a 'flour baby', a sack of flour which must be looked after for three weeks, ensuring it does not get lost or dirty.
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Berserk
Chas and his troubled mates flirt with danger, girls and law-breaking, in this humorous, gritty story that becomes an irresistible farce-come-thriller.
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Dead Rules
In this dark but funny novel, R.S. Russell envisages what would happen if teenagers who have died in traumatic circumstances were transported to 'Dead School', where they remain exactly as they were on death
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire
Skeletons, vampires, black magic, ancient gods, secret powers and a gruesome monster... Skulduggery Pleasant is back.
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Dodger
Terry Pratchett once again proves himself a master storyteller in this tribute to one of Charles Dickens' best-known characters, the Artful Doger.
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Ruby Redfort: Look into my Eyes
Blessed with an extraordinary talent for spotting things which others seldom notice, 13-year-old Ruby lands an undercover job as a code-breaker for secret-spy organisation, Spectrum.
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...Startled by his Furry Shorts
Having told Massimo, the Italian stallion, that she is only interested in a monogamous relationship, Georgia Nicholson now has an agonising wait to find out if he will be her real boyfriend or not.
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My Family and Other Freaks
Danni is desperate to get noticed by Damian, the coolest boy in school - but her embarassing family is always getting in the way
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Pop!
Elfie wants to change her life forever, so decides to achieve celebrity by entering TV talent contest Pop to the Top, coercing her reluctant friends Agnes and Jimmy to join her.
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OMG! Is This Actually My Life?
When Hattie is sent to her room for being sick in her step-father's fish tank, she decides to start writing a diary and sort her life out.
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Amy Green, Teen Agony Queen: Boy Trouble
Amy's parents are divorced, both have new partners and she's struggling with the dynamics of two differently shaped families.
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Dancing in My Nuddy-pants!
This fourth book in the series sees Georgia suffering her usual problems with boys and school, continuing her on/off relationships, and enduring the embarrassing behaviour of her parents.
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The Princess Diaries
Mia hides her real feelings as she takes care of her disastrously disorganised mother, until her absent father drops a bombshell: She is actually Princess Amelia of Genovia.
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...Then he ate my Boy Entrancers
This latest installment of Georgia Nicholson’s diaries sees her jetting off to Hamburger-a-gogo land in search of Masimo, the ‘Lurve God of the Universe’.
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The Pig Scrolls
The combination of an Ancient Greek setting, together with a leading character who is a vain and cowardly talking pig, makes for an unusual tale.
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Stop in the Name of Pants!
‘Luuuurve God’ Masimo has gone back to Italy for the summer and she finds herself drawn to her old friend Dave the Laugh, who seems to be drawn to her too…
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Tall, Thin and Blonde
Jen and Amy have been best friends forever, but when they start High School, they find themselves growing apart.
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The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven
Mia is back and she's under pressure, worried that she may have blown it with Michael and lost a load of money.
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Skulduggery Pleasant
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective, fighting to save the world from wizard-gone-to-the-dark-side, Nefarian Serpine.
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Zombies Don't Cry
Being a teenager is hard enough when you’re alive but imagine the extra problems faced when you’re a teenage zombie!
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Socks Are Not Enough
Things are not going well for Michael Swarbrick and he doesn't want to talk about it.
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All American Girl
Teenager Sam is the All American Girl of the title. One day, quite by chance, she just happens to save the life of the President - this changes her life in ways she never imagined.
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Heist Society
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre... to case it
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Bollywood Babes
Geena, Amber and Jazz - the Bindi girls - are back! Amber is still keen to further the romance between Auntie and handsome teacher, Mr Aurora, but things go awry...
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Girl 15 Charming But Insane
Laugh-out-loud funny, a riotous take on Jane Austen’s Emma that is both snazzy and very contemporary
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Dead Romantic
Camille is longing for the perfect boyfriend - and her best friend Zoe has a rather unusual plan to bring her dream boy to life.
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Withering Tights
When Tallulah’s parents pack her off to an am-dram college - Dother Hall, she hopes she will become a toppity-top-actress type without accidentally tripping over her knees or involuntarily doing Irish dancing.
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Welcome to the world of Georgia Nicolson, an angst-ridden adolescent, who keeps a diary to record the rollercoaster of emotions and experiences she faces every day.
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Waiting for Gonzo
Moving to a sleepy village, both Oz and his sister Meg have some unwelcome problems to face.
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Ostrich Boys
When teenager Ross Fell is killed, his closest friends are horrified by the sham and hypocrisy of his funeral.






