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