The Light in the Invading Darkness by Daniel Big Plume

Alexandra has to save the world from encroaching darkness. She’s only fifteen. Daniel Big Plume tells her tale in this high stakes story.

Lost Letters by Tom Hapgood

What appears to be a surprise find leads our narrator back into his past in Germany, where all he thought he knew is not as it first seems

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell

A story of a girl taken from all she knows and her fight to survive in a world where she doesn’t fit

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A book about people and the injustices that are served and the battle to conquer them

Ruby by Jack Heape

A heart-warming story of friendship between a show dog called Ruby, her handler, Toby and a reclusive epileptic girl called Rachel

Super Human by Dan Pouliot

An action-packed YA novel from start to finish which is primarily a mystery thriller with elements of family and coming-of-age thrown in

Sour Apples: A Novel For Those Who Hate To Read by Paul Jantzen

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?

The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart

Friends perform a ritual, entering their treasured items into a box buried in the woods. It must remain undisturbed or… So who opened it?