A highly rated book from a New YorkTime best selling author. The book starts a year after 9/11 in 2002. Shirin, a muslim girl wearing a hijab, starts a new year in high school, and endures the consequences of stereotypes and prejudices in politically turbulent times. Shirin enjoys break dancing with her brother to get away from daily negativity, until she meet Ocean James.

A historical thriller where 16 year old Ellie travels back in time to 1988 Berlin, when on a school trip. The wall is still standing and she meets members of a guild who use balloons and magic to get people across it. As Ellie gets more involved she comes to realise that dark magic is being used to change history.

Malorie Blackman creates an alternative future where everything is pretty much as we would have expected, except that there is a ruling class, which is dark skinned and a colourless underclass who were once slaves.

The popular series has four further books – Knife Edge, Check Mate; Double Cross; Crossfire.

USA; 1965; Female Author – She wrote and had the book published between the ages of 15 and 18.

Set in a small town in Oklahoma, where the teenagers belong to one of two gangs depending upon money, tastes and attitudes. Both groups understand how to handle situations, until one night things go too far.

This book is set in the future where the world is perfect, and no one wants for anything. Jonas, a twelve year old boy is selected as the Receiver of Memory and starts to discover everything is not as perfect as it seems to be. The author won the Newbery Award for this book.