The Mortmain family are living through difficult times in a castle, which they had leased, thinking it would be a good idea. Things take an interesting turn when their new landlords from America arrive. An entertaining coming-of-age novel from the 1930s.

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.

A best selling novel about a horse in the 1800s. The horse describes its life from when he was born in an English farm, to pulling cabs in London and then finally his retirement in the countryside.

A pirate story for young adults written in the late 1800s.

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.

Gerta is 12 years old living in Berlin, Germany. As the Berlin Wall rises her family gets divided overnight, her father and one brother are on the other side looking for work and she is with her mother and other brother on the eastern side. Will Gerta’s family ever reunite?

A book set in the 60s in Greenwood, Mississippi where Sunny’s home is going through changes and so is her town. Students from up north are being driven down south for the Freedom Summer to register citizens in the town to vote.

Peter has followed his parents on an expedition to Greenland from New York. There he meets Thea who has never seen the sun and lives in an underground community. A story full of science, adventure and mystery.

Auggie Pullman has a deformed face and has been homeschooled till he is about to start Grade 5, when his parents think it is time to face the real world. The book tells the story of Auggie’s journey in school from the perspective of different children in his school, his sister and himself. A very moving book that deals not only with ‘coming of age’ issues but that of being really different and trying to make your place in the world.

This is the first in a series of the most fabulous set of books about a young girl called Anne Shirley, who is inadvertently adopted by an ageing brother and sister on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s. Anne has a vivid imagination and a strong compulsion to chatter and get embroiled into situations, endearing her to all … eventually.