Category: Young Adult Fiction

By Simon Holt

Pay attention the darkness and the light.

They will scouse borrow your soul in day or night.

In summer's heat or winter's cold

Your lifestyles will finish while the Vours take hold.

In the fearscape nobody can listen you cry,

And in its intensity your soul will die.

Reggie Halloway inspiration she used to be accomplished with the Vours - the demons who had possessed her brother, Henry - endlessly. She'd as soon as confronted them in a deathly conflict for Henry's soul and now she desires to put out of your mind them. yet Quinn, the Vour she left on the backside of a lake, is back.

And he's not on my own.

By J. H. Brennan

"Whoever holds Excalibur principles Avalon"

States the traditional lore. And now King Arthur's fabled sword has been stolen. Avalon is in chaos, and Merlin's most powerful sorcery can't realize the thief.

YOUR venture: to trace down Excalibur via nation-states in time and house of wonderful strangeness. the place you want to use magic and clear up cryptic puzzles to outlive. the place creatures of hideous energy will confront you. the place you'll find the dominion of Horror - and event past your wildest nightmares...

By R. L. Stine

No melting allowed!

Jaclyn used to dwell along with her aunt Greta in Chicago. yet now not anymore. They've moved to a spot referred to as Sherpia. It's a tiny village at the fringe of the Arctic Circle.

Jaclyn can't think she's caught out in Nowheresville. No motion picture theaters. No shops. No not anything. Plus, there's whatever rather strange in regards to the village.

At evening there are unusual howling noises. And in entrance of each condo there's a snowman. A creepy snowman with a purple shawl. A deep scar on his face. And a truly evil smile. . . .

By Travis Thrasher

His Loneliness Will quickly flip to Fear…. while Chris Buckley strikes to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the truth of his parents’ divorce, a faculty filled with anonymous faces—and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is gorgeous and mysterious adequate to depart Chris speechless. however the extra Jocelyn resists him, the extra the 2 are drawn jointly. Chris quickly learns that Jocelyn has secrets and techniques as deep because the city itself. secrets and techniques extra terrifying than the bullies he faces within the locker room or his mother’s unexplained nightmares. He slowly starts to appreciate the bad solutions. The query is whether or not he can retailer Jocelyn in time. this primary e-book within the Solitary stories sequence will take you from the chilly halls of highschool to the darkish rooms of an deserted cabin—and remind you what it ability to think in what you can't see.

By Lizzy Ford

A college for Witchlings...
The final selection among gentle and Dark...
Where the cost of a mistake...is your soul.
Sixteen-year-old summer season doesn’t count on her new boarding tuition to be any varied than the remaining: a short lived remain, until eventually her uncontrollable magic will get her thrown out back. In her brain, there’s no element in getting too pleasant with an individual. that's, until eventually she notices Decker, the boy who turns into the grasp of evening and fireplace on his eighteenth birthday.
When she learns that this specific college has attracted others with magic of their blood, she is hopeful that this time round, issues might be various. along with, she can’t deny her curiosity in Decker, and whilst he rescues her one evening from the darkish forests of the Rocky Mountains, their connection is instant.
Yet a dating with Decker may perhaps turn out to be Summer’s downfall, forcing her to select from mild and darkish, existence and demise, love – and their souls.
One selection. One soul. One fee.

By Madeleine L'Engle

Sandy and Dennys have continually been the traditional, run-of-the-mill ones within the extraodinary Murry kin. They backyard, make an occasional A in class, and play baseball. not anything particularly attention-grabbing has occurred to the twins till they unintentionally interrupt their father's experiment.

Then the 2 boys are thrown throughout time and house. They locate themselves by myself within the wasteland, the place, in the event that they think in unicorns, they could locate unicorns, and whether or not they think or now not, mammoths and manticores will locate them.

The twins are rescued via Japheth, a guy from the within sight oasis, yet ahead of he can carry them to defense, Dennys will get misplaced. every one boy is instantly embroiled within the conflicts of this time and position, whose populations comprises winged seraphim, a couple of stray mythic beasts, perilous and gorgeous nephilim, and small, lengthy lived people who think of Sandy and Dennys giants. the lads locate they've got extra to do within the oasis than just getting themselves home--they need to reunite an estranged father and son, however it won't be effortless, in particular whilst the son is termed Noah and he's approximately to begin construction a ship within the wasteland.

By Ilyasah Shabazz, Kekla Magoon

Co-written by way of Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the youth of the guy whose phrases and activities shook the area. Malcolm Little's mom and dad have continuously informed him that he can in attaining whatever, yet from what he can inform, that's a pack of lies—after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his goals of changing into a attorney have got him laughed out of faculty. There's no aspect in making an attempt, he figures, and lured by way of the nightlife of Boston and ny, he escapes right into a global of fancy matches, jazz, ladies, and reefer. yet Malcolm's efforts to depart the earlier at the back of lead him into more and more harmful territory. Deep down, he understands that the liberty he's discovered is barely an illusion—and that he can't run ceaselessly. X follows Malcolm from his adolescence to his imprisonment for robbery at age twenty, while he chanced on the religion that might lead him to forge a brand new course and command a voice that also resonates this day.

By Michael Scott

He holds the key that could finish the world.

The fact: Nicholas Flamel used to be born in Paris on September 28, 1330. approximately seven hundred years later, he's said because the maximum Alchemyst of his day. it's acknowledged that he came across the key of everlasting life.

The documents convey that he died in 1418.

But his tomb is empty.

The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. yet simply simply because he has been making the elixir of existence for hundreds of years. the key of everlasting existence is hidden in the booklet he protects—the publication of Abraham the Mage. It's the main robust e-book that has ever existed. within the incorrect arms, it is going to damage the area. That's precisely what Dr. John Dee plans to do whilst he steals it. Humankind won't comprehend what's occurring till it's too past due. And if the prophecy is true, Sophie and Josh Newman are the single ones with the ability to avoid wasting the realm as we all know it.

Sometimes legends are true.

And Sophie and Josh Newman are approximately to discover themselves in the midst of the best legend of all time.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Lee Taylor

Ursine Edwards was once a standard, well-adjusted youngster ahead of summer season holiday. Now, he has by chance married a demon, fallen into line with a wolf-pack, and is being hunted by means of witches in addition to the govt, who're all in flip attempting to use Ursine for his or her personal units.

By Alex Scarrow

Liam O'Connor must have died at sea in 1912.

Maddy Carter must have died on a aircraft in 2010.

Sal Vikram must have died in a hearth in 2026.

But all 3 were given a moment likelihood - to paintings for an company that not anyone is aware exists. Its objective: to avoid time shuttle destroying background . . .

Relocated to Victorian London, the TimeRiders joy-ride again to 1666 to witness the good fireplace of London. within the resulting chaos, Liam and their latest recruit, Rashim, locate themselves trapped among the fireplace and the Thames. They get away onboard a river boat, in basic terms to be faced via an unscrupulous captain along with his middle set on treasures of the excessive seas . . .

Back in 1888, Maddy and the remainder of the staff are frantically attempting to song them down. yet with restricted assets at their new base, can Liam and Rashim continue to exist the bloodthirsty and barbaric age of piracy lengthy sufficient to be rescued?

• e-book seven within the bestselling TimeRiders sequence through Alex Scarrow.
• The Golden Age of Piracy get a time-travel makeover!
• ideal for fanatics of health practitioner Who and Pirates of the Caribbean.
• TimeRiders (Book 1) received the crimson residence e-book Award older readers classification, and used to be Penguin UK's first ever #1 at the iBookstore.