Wednesday, 18 June 2014

New Books! Shiny Covers! Read Me!

Skye and Summer Tanberry are identical twins, and Skye loves her sister Summer more than anyone else in the world. Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, will she ever step out of Summer's shadow and find her own chance to shine?

Imagine an ancient manuscript no one can read.
Imagine a secret code for someone just like you.
Imagine the chance to uncover a Truth hidden for centuries - but the Rules say it's forbidden to even try. Brodie Bray likes a challenge. But when she and her friends try to crack the code, she finds someone will kill to stop them.

How far would you go for freedom?
Would you lie to your family? Break up with your best friend?
Would you risk your life?
It's 1940. Europe is at war, and fifteen-year-old Nicole's city has been invaded by the Nazis. Desperate but determined, she joins a secret group of freedom fighters - and learns that she is not too young to fire a gun, plant a bomb....

For Fin, it's just like any other day - racing for the school bus, bluffing his way through class and trying to remain cool in front of the most sophisticated girl in his universe. Only it's not like any other day because, on the other side of the world, nuclear missiles are being detonated.

When a boat carrying a group of asylum seekers is sunk by a freak wave, Faris wakes from the shipwreck in an Australia he's always dreamed of.

Every teenager must take the test.
If you pass, you live.
If you fail, you're forsaken.

Eleanor is the new girl in town.
Park is the boy at the back of the bus.
Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other.
Note: Not suitable for younger readers!

There is no escape from the Rig. A maximum security juvenile prison stranded in the middle of the Arctic Ocean - every moment is tracked, every door is locked.
But Will Drake likes a challenge, and this will be the biggest one yet. Imprisoned in an impossibly secure institution for the very worst of the world's kids, Drake knows two things - he will have to be tough to survive, and there is always a way out.

Can twins Jack and Jaide find the mysterious Golden Card of Translocation and make it out of Rourke Castle alive?

Meet Bugs: smart, sarcastic, sixteen and stuck in a small town without a driver's licence.
Bugs has been best mates with Jez forever; they've always been Jez and Bugs, Bugs and Jez.
That is until Stone Cold, the new girl, arrives in town. The year was already going to be a challenge without adding spoilt, bitchy Stone Cold to the mix. Why would anyone want to be mates with her?

'They're trying to change me, but I won't let them. I won't be Esther. I'm always going to keep on being me, Kirby.'

One night in Chicago, two guys - both named Will Grayson - cross paths.
What follows is...

Hayley Kincain is hoping for a normal life now that she and her father have left their life on the road. But it seems things will never be normal when you dad is running from a past that tortures him and you're trying to block out your own painful memories.