The world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves...Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of Greenland. The vast, floating city of Pomperoy is just one of the shocks that are not in their navigation plans. Unwittingly, the refugees bring catastrophe in their wake for Tuck, a gypsea pirate-boy, and also for Ilira – a land whose inhabitants exist in a state of terror at the top of the world.Back in the drowned ruins at the feet of the towering sky city, Fox is beginning his battle with the cruel, corrupt forces that rule the New World. But separated from Mara, his resolve begins to waver...

Zenith

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bertagna, Julie

Science Fiction

Young Picador

A startling, thrilling novel set in a dystopian future ravaged by global warming It is 2099 - and the world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears forever beneath storm-tossed waves. For 15-year-old Mara, her family and community, huddled on the fast-disappearing island of Wing, the new century brings flight. Packed into tiny boats, a terrifying journey begins to a bizarre city that rises into the sky, built on the drowned remains of the ancient city of Glasgow. But even here there is no safety and, shut out of the city, Mara realizes they are asylum-seekers in a world torn between high-tech wizardry and the most primitive injustice. To save her people, Mara must not only find a way into the city but also search for a new land and a new home...

Exodus

Teen & Young Adult

Julie Bertagna

Literature & Fiction

Carmen's mum is obsessed with dieting. Swept off by her mum to live in Birmingham, she finds her old life disappearing. She wonders what would happen if she were thin but then wonders if that could ever happen after so many failed diets.

Massive

Children's Books

BELL, JULIA

Growing Up & Facts of Life

A fast and furious novel about sex, love and the courage to live. Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she wants. She idolises Link, the maths genius and track star. And she's totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. She knows she will never grow out of it. Until someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. A simple question. But the consequences overturn everything Ellen has ever believed and threaten to tear apart the family she thought she knew.

My Heartbeat

Garret Freymann-Weyr

Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she wants. She idolises Link, the maths genius and track star. And she's totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. She knows she will never grow out of it. Until someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. A simple question. But the consequences overturn everything Ellen has ever believed and threaten to tear apart the family she thought she knew.

A second novel for Young Picador from Whitbread-shortlist star! It's a long, hot summer - and a climactic one. For 14-year-old Sapphire it brings the awesome, terrifying realisation that she is pregnant - a discovery that catapults her into the eye of a storm as her body, her future, her life, become a battleground for everyone's needs but her own. Meanwhile, out in the humid urban night, a mysterious firebug is running wild, working out his own anger and confusion with dramatic consequences. Somehow, from this cauldron of emotion and fear, Sapphire must find a way to take control of her life - and make the most agonising and lonely of choices.

The Opposite of Chocolate

`Big, bold and brave` J-17
`I`m fat,` I hear myself saying. I look in the mirror. My face has gone hot and red; I feel like i`m going to explode. `I`m fat.` It sizzles under my skin, puffing me up, pushing me out, making me massive.
Weight has always been a big issue in Carmen`s life. Not surprising when her mum is obsessed with the idea that thin equals beauty, thin equals success, thin equals the way to get what you want. And somehow her daughter is going to be thin.
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds her old world disappearing. With everything to gain and absolutely nothing to lose. Carmen starts to ask: if she were thin, very thin, could it all be different?

One Thurday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has already had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Faith is joy is love is hope in this novel of exquisite power and everyday miracles, reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. Thomas can see things no one else can see. Tropical fish swimming in the canals. The magic of Mrs. Van Amersfoort, the Beethoven-loving witch next door. The fierce beauty of Eliza with her artificial leg. And the Lord Jesus, who tells him, "Just call me Jesus." Thomas records these visions in his "Book of Everything." They comfort him when his father beats him, when the angels weep for his mother's black eyes. And they give him the strength to finally confront his father and become what he wants to be when he grows up: "Happy."

The Book of Everything

Guus Kuijer

A Song for Summer

When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she finds her destiny.Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all around her. But it’s the handsome, mysterious gardener, Marek, who intrigues her – Marek, who has a dangerous secret. As Hitler’s troops spread across Europe, Ellen has promises to keep, even if they mean she must sacrifice her future happiness...An unforgettable love story from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan.

IBBOTSON, EVA

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Zenith

Exodus

Massive

My Heartbeat

My Heartbeat

The Opposite of Chocolate

Massive

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book of Everything

A Song for Summer