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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Selznick, Brian

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddau...

The Black Book of Secrets

by Higgins, F. E.

When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who...

Night of the Soul Stealer

The Last Apprentice, Book Three

by Delaney, Joseph

Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason ...

Another Kind of Cowboy

by Juby, Susan

In Vancouver, British Columbia, two teenage dressage riders, one a spoiled rich girl and the other a closeted gay sixteen-year-old boy, come to terms with thei...

The Highwayman's Footsteps

by Morgan, Nicola

In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek...

Starcross

A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats

by Reeve, Philip

Art, Myrtle and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort. But they set out with visions of rest and relaxation ...

Baby

by Monninger, Joseph

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A Bridge to the Stars

by Mankell, Henning

In Sweden in 1956, eleven-year-old Joel and his father, a logger who was once a sailor, live alone with their secrets, including Joel's secret society that mee...

Wilderness

by Doyle, Roddy

As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother t...

Yellow Flag

by Lipsyte, Robert

In any race, there are drivers and, at the front of the pack, there are racers. In the final laps, it's the racer who moves his car through the sweet spot, pic...