It's Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it's shaping up to be the worst year ever. He has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school in…
My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.rnWell, some of her does.rnA collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.rnrnTo ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the los…
Dominic finds the photograph in his grandad's loft. When his parents refuse to tell him anything, Dominic starts to seel out the truth for himself. Uncovering a horrific secret he unleashes a chain…
Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has c…
Dewey Marriss is stuck in a crunch. He never guessed that the gas pumps would run dry the same week he promised to manage the family's bicycle-repair business. Suddenly everyone needs a bike. And n…
Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform draped over his wooden desk chair, his sister arguing over the breakfast cereal, the click of his mother's heels as s…
During the Depression era of the 1930s, Maggie grows up in the logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father.
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Y…