Year 10
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Orangeboy
Winner: Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Shortlisted: Costa Children's Book Award
Shortlisted: YA Book Prize
Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through.
NOT...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 448
- MBE Code : 423
Punching The Air (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. ‘Boys just being boys’ turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal Shahid’s bright future is upended:...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 386
- MBE Code : 449
Run, Rebel
I am restless, my feet need to fly.Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears.Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself.Freedom always comes at a price.Run, Rebel is a trailblazing ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 437
The Book Thief
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 584
- MBE Code : 214
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Fault in Our Stars
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 401
The Grapes of Wrath
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.
Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 544
- MBE Code : 398
The Hate You Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 295
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
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 ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 459
The Little Big Things
Being challenged in life is inevitable, but being defeated is optional...Henry Fraser was 17 years old when a tragic accident severely crushed his spinal cord. Paralysed from the shoulders down, he has conquered unimaginable difficulty to embrace ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 176
- MBE Code : 360
The Outrage
"You know, when you live in a time of progress, it seems that progress is the only possible way. The idea that everything we'd gained, all of those hard-won rights, could be taken away from us, and that open minds could be closed again? But then the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 396
- MBE Code : 454
The Remains of the Day
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past...
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 422
The Sky is Everywhere
Beautiful, funny and heartfelt, The Sky Is Everywhere is about love and forgiveness. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 410
The Woman In Black
Author Kipps is a junior solicitor, who is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of the Eel Marsh House.
This house stands towards the end of a causeway, that is wreathed in multitudes of fog and mystery… But ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 118
They Both Die At The End
On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 374
- MBE Code : 455
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 617
This Book Kills
“I’ll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn’t even help. Well, not intentionally.”
When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary’s school, is found dead, the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 382
- MBE Code : 616
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lawyer Atticus Finch gives his advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel, where a black man was charged with the rape of a white girl.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 124
Touching the Void
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 362
When Shadows Fall (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)
Kai, Orla and Zak grew up together, their days spent on the patch of wilderness in between their homes, a small green space in a sprawling grey city. Music, laughter and friendship bind them together and they have big plans for their future – until...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 346
- MBE Code : 524
When The World Was Ours
Vienna, 1936.
Elsa, Leo and Max have always been best friends, a special team of three. Then the Nazis come.
As a growing darkness descends around them, Leo and Elsa run for their lives, taking two very different paths across Europe. And ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 568