Ally’s World: The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl by Karen McCombie My eldest sister is 17 going on 70, my other sister is away with the faries (literally – her room is a shrine to whoever invented fairy lights) and my little brother is a space cadet. Me? Somehow I ended up normal, but it’s a struggle, let me tell you…
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he’s working for ASIS – the Australian Secret Service – and his target is the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. But this time Alex isn’t working alone. He’s teamed up with Ash, once his father’s best friend and now a secret agent with the key to unlock Alex’s past. But the odds are stacked against them. An old enemy has returned with a plan that will destabilize half the world. Caught between two secret services, with no one he can trust, Alex will need all his wits to survive.
H.I.V.E: Higher Institute of Villainous Education The Overload Protocol (First recommended on Book Blast)
A new power is rising to challenge Number One, the most formidable villain alive. But who is it? And why do they want to assassinate Otto Malpense, star pupil of H.I.V.E, and his best friend Wing Fanchu? Otto faces his toughest challenge yet – surviving the next twenty-four hours… and uncovering the terrifying truth which lies behind the Overload Protocol.
The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins
When Ludlow Fitch suffers an unspeakable betrayal he runs from the rotten, stinking City. On the night he enters Pagus Parvus a second newcomer arrives at the remote village. Joe Zabbidou, a mysterious pawnbroker who buys people’s deepest, darkest secrets, is searching for new customers – and for an apprentice. Shadowy
Ludlow seems perfect for the job. But as he begins his new life recording the villager’s fiendish confessions,
Ludlow’s murky past threatens to come into the light…
Missing Persons Case 4: The Unsuspecting Gourmet by M.E Rabb
Meet Sam and Sophie – runaway sisters from Queens, New York, who are trying to make new lives for themselves in the tiny town of Venice, Indiana. They have changed their names, dyed their hair… and even discovered a new talent – finding missing persons. But they must never forget the importance of staying missing themselves…
The Making of May by Gwyneth Rees (First recommended on Book Blast)
May’s life changes totally when she moves to a huge country house where her brother Ben has got a job as Gardner – despite lying about his qualifications. She quickly makes friends with Alex, the son of the Hall’s owner, and together they start to transform the overgrown walled garden – the secret garden May has always dreamed of. But May soon discovers strange goings on at the house. What lies behind the locked tower-room door that housekeeper Mrs Daniels guards so closely? As May sets off to unravel the tower’s secret, Mrs Daniels is on the trail of Ben’s big lie. Could May be about to lose Thornton Hall forever?
The Intruders by E.E Richardson
Joel Demetruis is quite looking forward to moving in with his new step-family, but his sister Cassie don’t want anything to do with Gerald and his two sons. To make matters worse, their new home is practically derelict. Joel is fascinated by the old house, but even he has to admit that there’s something not quite right about it. He keeps seeing things out of the corner of his eye, and he’s plagued by nightmares of a terrified boy who repeats the same fractured prayer over and over. Events in the house become harder and harder to explain, and as Cassie’s battle with her stepbrothers draws everyone deeper into the mystery, all four kids are forced to confront the question of just who the intruders really are…
Stone Heart by Charlie Fletcher (First recommended on Book Blast)
When George breaks a small dragon carving from the Natural History Museum he finds himself plunged into a world he can’t understand; racing for survival in a City where sculptures and stone carvings move and fight, where it’s impossible to know who to trust and where nothing is what it seems. Enter the original and breathtaking world of this epic adventure, the first of an exciting three book sequence, and you’ll never see the city the same way again…
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf by Jenny Nimmo
This is the sixth thrilling magical adventure starring Charlie Bone! Charlie Bone has finally found his father, but he’s disappeared again. However, this time Charlie knows where he is – on a second honeymoon with his mother. But there’s no time to miss them, for there’s a strange salty mist in the air, and chilling howls in the night. And someone has been searching Charlie’s house. What are they looking for? And could Dagbert, the new boy with pale lips and cold aquamarine eyes, have something to do with it? The new boy with the power of harnessing water, whose father has Cook so rattled she’s threatening to leave the school. The new boy who sticks so closely to Charlie, his friends are almost driven away. Something is going on – and the Bloors have to be behind it. Charlie and his friends must find the creature who howls so desperately. But will they be in time?
Untouchable by Kate Brian
Reed’s boyfriend, Thomas Pearson — the popular, easygoing, irresistibly handsome and charismatic boy she fell in love with — is dead. No one knows how it happened, and everyone is after the truth. Or are they?Life at
Easton Academy begins to feel very different. Taylor is acting like the poster child for Prozac, Kiran is spiking her cornflakes, Noelle is being kind of…nice, and Arianna keeps floating along as if nothing has happened. Thanksgiving break arrives and Reed and Josh find themselves alone on campus. They are forced to confront the feelings they’ve been hiding. Those feelings combined with an empty campus result in the hottest hookup Reed could possibly imagine.But when Reed breaks the news about Josh to the Billings Girls, there’s no fun game of tell-all. Instead, Josh begins to look like suspect No. 1 in the murder of Thomas Pearson.
The perfect life Reed has constructed as a Billings Girl begins to crumble. And as everyone becomes more convinced of Josh’s guilt, Reed’s private suspicions lead her somewhere she doesn’t want to go.
