'Twilight' tempted the imagination. 'New Moon' made readers thirsty for more. 'Eclipse' turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for...

Sephy is a Cross, a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought, a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into C...

Someone is trying to kill Luke Challenger. Being garrotted with cable car wires is not the way he wants to end his young life! Luke and his friend Nick flee the would-be assassins into the deepest Brazilian jungle - where they encounter a lost world of real-life dinosaurs. Then a mysterious cult comes after Luke. Why are the sinister Sons of Destin...

Charles and Mary Lamb revolutionized Shakespeare by re-writing the great Bard's plays into short stories, originally intended for children, in 1807. Since then, generations after generations of people have read and listened to their stories, which appeal just as much to adults as they do to children. Also good resources for students studying Shakes...

This classic Shakespeare tale of false identities, cross-dressing, disguises and romantic confusion is brought to life in a story (rather than a play) format. Based in a Dutchy in France, most of the action in fact takes place in 'The Forest of Arden' where the characters in the play fall in love, fall out with each other and find out some unlikely...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus e...

My name is Zelah Green and I'm a cleanaholic. I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And I'm just about doing OK and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with loads of strangers. It's stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. There's Alice who's anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol wh...

I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, written in 1949 while living in USA. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. This coming-of-age novel recounts in the first person the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to liv...

The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the faceof brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.

In 2051 Britain is a divided country - half the population shelters in fortified suburbs, the other half smoulders in sealed off ghettos. Zoe is one of the privileged, Daz a semi-literate ghetto dweller. What happens when they fall in love?

Grace's life starts to change the day she catches a glimpse through a telescope of a ghostly-looking knight, but her search for the knight seems impossible. Over-protected by her family, she can't go off the estate alone. The only answer is to break the rules and in doing so she finds herself on a quest that will lead her to a guardian angel, a ban...

Nick is a bit of an outsider and worried that he's a failure. On his way home after losing yet another battle with the school bully, he meets the mysterious Moe Nagic. Moe is selling a puzzle made from a watercolour painting called `The Trokeville Way'. What makes this puzzle unusual is that you can actually go into it, to step into another world....

In the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to...

When a teen magazine begins its hunt for a new cover girl, three friends, each very different in style and personality, become obsessed by the way they look. As Nadine starts to change her appearance, Magda becomes more infatuated by designer labels and their best friend Ellie, who feels plain in comparison to her two more glamorous colleagues, fin...

Forced out of the family home by an abusive stepfather, `Link' is down and out in London. He vividly recounts the day to day experiences of life on the streets. As the author alternates Link's tale with that of an unknown serial killer preying on the homeless, you see how closely their lives brush against each other and know it's only a matter of t...

Escaping from his violent stepfather, 12-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. But Sipho has to learn who to trust in the 'new' South Africa.

It's bad enough being a teenager but Georgia Nicolson's problems go way beyond the average. She lives with her annoying parents, a three-year-old sister, her wildcat Angus and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blond, have a smaller nose, slimmer eyebrows and a boyfriend. Georgia relates her tales of love and life in her d...

When Abren becomes conscious of her surroundings she is struggling to get out of the flooded river Severn with her only possession, a beautifully embroidered cloth, clutched in her arms. What is she doing in the water, who is she, and where can she go? A magical fantasy of a story that follows the journey of a girl's life over many centuries.

The well-intentioned, wealthy physician Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the duality of human nature. He discovers a drug which can separate the good and evil sides of his character. But can he stop his dark side, the hideous Mr Hyde, from taking control?

Set in an alternative London which was heavily bombed by German airships, monstrous creatures known as wych-kin prey on terrified citizens. At the heart of the city is the beautiful, vulnerable and enigmatic Alaizabel Cray - key to the ultimate evil. Winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Silver Award.

Mary's grandmother is executed for witchcraft, and Mary is forced to leave her home to avoid the same fate. At first she flees to the English countryside, but when the atmosphere of superstition and suspicion becomes all-consuming she leaves on a boat for America in the hope that she can start over and forget her past. But during the journey, she r...