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As well as being a compelling tale of love and friendship, this is an outstanding and thought-provoking exploration of the futility of prejudice.

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.

By turns funny and honestly self-aware, McCombie captures the emotional roller coaster that accompanies first forays in the quest for love. Hugely readable and entertaining!

Spending the summer alone together at Adam’s family house by the lake, Adam and Mary-Lou alternate between facing up to the challenges of life and trying to escape or ignore them.

The second in Kate Harrison's Soul Beach trilogy, Soul Fire continues the story of Alice Forster, whose life changed forever when her elder sister Meggie was murdered.

Freetown, Sierra Leone: a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with terrible secrets to keep.

Miranda July’s debut collection is an engaging mix of the heartfelt and self-aware, with some very funny moments and sharp observations.

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

A thriller with a difference, this riveting read explores the conflicting emotions felt by two young people who know that only by risking their lives can they save the world.

In this terrifying dystopia from Bali Rai, the young, the old and the sick have become the prey of horrifying demons that Fire City's wealthy employ to police the city.

'We're not supposed to do this - to love each other like this!' Lochan and Maya. Brother and sister. Lovers.

This unusual story of star-crossed teenage love is told visually, through a series of photographs, collages and scrapbook pages

With elements of romance, political intrigue and state-sanctioned violence, this first installment of a dystopian trilogy has something for everyone.   

This thought-provoking novel from acclaimed author Aidan Chambers explores unexpected friendships and the consequences which can result from loving the wrong person.

Lyra and Will, the fiesty protagonists from the first two novels, are reunited to embark on their final, dangerous journey on which the future of all the worlds depend.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will.

Eva is an echo, created by the mysterious Weavers as an exact copy of someone else. When her 'other', Amarra is killed in a car accident, Eva must take over her life.

Adelice discovers she has a powerful but dangerous gift as she struggles to retain her indiviudality within a repressive regime.

When the beautiful and mysterious Delos family arrive on Nantucket Island, Helen Hamilton's teenaged life is turned upside down.

Amy's parents are divorced, both have new partners and she's struggling with the dynamics of two differently shaped families.

Shortlisted for the 2005 Booktrust Teenage Prize, this is a controversial and daring look at the gritty reality of teenage experience.

Beautiful young aristocrat Jenny is the closest friend of Mary, the young Queen of Scots. When she overhears a whispered plot against Mary she sets out to become a spy to keep her friend safe, little realising how much danger she will soon encounter.

Daniel Clowes’ latest exercise in dysfunctional love affairs smitten by misanthropy concerns the titular, Mister Wonderful, Marshall, a neurotic divorcee who goes on a first date, with the obvious ‘complications’ ensuing.

Heartbroken Micah runs away from the flat, featureless plains to climb the distant inhospitable mountains in search of returner's wealth...

Bridget, Carmen, Tibby and Lena have been inseparable all their lives and are about to embark on their first summer apart.

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year-old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life.

Hannah has been best friends with Joey forever. But when the dynamics of their relationship begin to change, Hannah finds it hard to adjust.

When the bombs begin to fall, runaway Skip camps out in the State Library with homeless old Billy and little Max, waiting for the mother who never comes.

Based around the British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919, Rai’s seventh novel for young adults moves seamlessly through time, place, belief and genre.

Vividly evoking the traumatic history of a nation once brimming with promise, The Boy Next Door tells an engrossing, unpredictable story of love against the odds, and of the shadows cast by the past.

Stories of war - life as a soldier in the Chechnya war; fierce fighting and a miraculous salvation from sure death; an ex-serviceman's inability to reintegrate into peaceful life after his army stint in Chechnya.

This debut collection from Stuart Evers is a beautifully packaged and carefully measured set of short stories that, in the lighting of a cigarette, watch as characters fall in and out of love, cause pain, heartache and misery, and become obsessed.

In the aftermath of the car crash that killed her boyfriend, Wren puts aside her plans for college and retreats to her father’s isolated artist studio in the far-north woods of Maine.

Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf.

Holly is a new girl in a new school, with a new home and a new identity - but one wrong move could put her in terrible danger.

A modern-day gothic horror story, which mixes the creepy with teenage experiences of love and identity.

The car crash that left her best friend dead has left Jenna with scars both emotional and physical.  She feels as though her life is over - but then Ryan turns up.

The sequel to Lament, this unusual supernatural tale blends Celtic legend and folklore with contemporary teen romance.

This romantic historical novel is based on the true story of astronomer Tycho Brahe

Spanning more than 30 years in the lives of Grace and Tamar and their family, Davies’s stories are short, sharp snapshots of childhood, adolescence, coming-of-age, marriage, divorce and the messiness of all the living that has to go on in between.

It seems like Flynn has it all - but he's also a manic depressive and two small daily pills represent the border between functioning normally and chaos.

The story of a girl, a guitar, a guardian angel and a long-lost father. The girl is Candy Caine: in her dreams she's storming Glastonbury; in reality she doesn't even have a band.

Loosely based on the real life case of the Kerry babies, powerful imagery and lyrical prose is woven throughout this unforgettable, outstanding and ultimately hopeful novel.

Edward seems to hate Bella, but it turns out that he is in love with her and he is afraid of what he might do to her.

Orphan Bryn has grown up among Callum's werewolf pack. Discovering a caged Were revives terrible memories for her and begins a thrilling and potentially deadly chain of events...

the stories of Shaena Lambert are about malevolent pubescent sexuality; tough women; and adolescent boys boasting about their knowledge of female anatomy.

In the distant future, humans are all connected to 'the Feed' - a microchip planted in their brains from birth.

The year is 1944 and France is occupied by Nazi troops. When Luc Belleville returns home to his sleepy village in France after some time away, 15-year-old Arianne is instantly drawn to him.