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The Hunger Games [Paperback] / Suzanne Collins.

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called 'The Hunger Games'. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.
Author: Collins, Suzanne, 1964-
Published: London : Scholastic, 2011, c2008, 2018.
458 p. ; 20 cm.
The hunger games ; 1
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
Average rating: (3 reviews)
8 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T COL - Onloan - Due: 18 Apr 2024 - 009898829
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T COL - Onloan - Due: 05 Apr 2024 - 011065936

The cruel prince [Paperback] / Holly Black.

Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Author: Black, Holly
Published: London : Hot Key Books, 2018.
370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
[The Folk of the Air] ; [1]

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T BLA - Available - 009594851

Northern lights [Paperback] / Philip Pullman.

"This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty, Oxford. The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant. Set in an England familiar and strange, Philip Pullman's lively, taut story is a must-read and re-read for fantasy lovers of all ages."
Author: Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Published: London, UK : Scholastic Children's Books, 2017.
397 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
His dark materials ; volume one
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PUL - Available - 010103271
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PUL - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 12 Apr 2024) - 010103318

Mortal engines [Paperback] / Philip Reeve.

London is hunting. The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plans of London's leaders begin to unfold ...
Author: Reeve, Philip
Published: London : Scholastic, 2015.
320 pages ; 20 cm.
Predator Cities / Mortal Engines series ; 1

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T REE - Onloan - Due: 21 Apr 2024 - 009826624
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T REE - Available - 009703604
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T REE - Available - 009826617

Sabriel [Paperback] / Garth Nix.

Garth Nix's fantasy masterwork is a compelling high fantasy, the gripping story of a young heroine who must do battle in Death itself to defeat a powerful enemy. A tale of dark secrets, deep love and dangerous magic.
Author: Nix, Garth
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2014.
Published: Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, 2014.
Published: ©1995
361 pages : 1 map ; 20 cm.
Old Kingdom series ; bk. 1.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NIX - Available - 009317559
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T NIX - Available - 008694699

The mortal instruments. City of bones. Book One / Cassandra Clare.

Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn aand werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn to the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love.
Author: Clare, Cassandra
Published: London : Walker, 2007, 2013, 2015
442 p. ; 20 cm.
The mortal instruments ; 1
Shadowhunters

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T CLA - Available - 009898799

The inheritance cycle. Book one. Eragon / Christopher Paolini.

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, it brings a dragon hatchling. Overnight Eragon is thrust into a perilous new world of magic and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.
Author: Paolini, Christopher
Published: London : Doubleday, 2004. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
509 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
Inheritance ; 1.
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
1 reserve

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAO - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 22 Apr 2024) - 009628594
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAO - Onloan - Due: 27 Apr 2024 - 008509498
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAO - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010343707

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / by Ransom Riggs.

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
Author: Riggs, Ransom
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Quirk, 2011, 2013, 2016.
352 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children ; [1]
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 7 and 8

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T RIG - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 009077996
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T RIG - Available - 009337335

Divergent / Veronica Roth.

In the world of Divergent, society is divided into five factions - Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Erudite. Every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice Prior, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is. Her choice shocks everyone, including herself. During the initiation that follows, Tris and her fellow initiates undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them, Tris must determine who her friends really are - and whether she can trust the man who both threatens and protects her. Because Tris has a deadly secret. And as growing conflict threatens to unravel their seemingly perfect society, this secret might save those she loves...or it might destroy her.
Author: Roth, Veronica
Published: London : HarperCollins, 2011, 2013.
487 p. ; 21 cm.
Divergent series ; 1
Premiers' Reading Challenge Years 9 and 10
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T ROT - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 009914871
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T ROT - Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2024 - 010196150