Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
A fifteen-year-old Australian girl gets her first job and first crush on
her unattainable university-aged co-worker, as both search for meaning
in their lives.
Zom-B by Darren Shan
When the news starts reporting a zombie outbreak in Ireland, B's father
thinks it's a hoax-but even if it isn't, the two of them joke, it's only
the Irish, right? That is, until zombies actually attack the school. B
is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors of high school,
making allegiances with anyone with enough gall to fight off their
pursuers. But when they come face-to-face with the ravenous, oozing
corpses, all bets are off. There are no friends. No allies. Just
whatever it takes to survive.
Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh
Jepp of Astraveld left his countryside home on the
empty promise of a stranger, only to become a captive in a luxurious
prison: Coudenberg Palace, the royal court of the Spanish Infanta.
Nobody warned Jepp that as a court dwarf, daily injustices would become
his seemingly unshakable fate. If the humiliations were his alone,
perhaps he could endure them; but it breaks Jepp’s heart to see his
friend Lia suffer. After Jepp and Lia attempt a daring escape from the
palace, Jepp is imprisoned again, alone in a cage. Now, spirited across
Europe in a kidnapper’s carriage, Jepp fears where his unfortunate stars
may lead him.
Johnny Delgado: Private Detective by Kevin Brooks
Johnny wants to be a detective, and he's got it all figured out. So
what is he to do when two of the most beautiful girls in the world give
him a job to investigate? Investigate it of course. But quickly things
spin out of Johnny's control, and he gets tangled up with the local
gangs. Can he work out how he's ended up in this mess?
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed
with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and
activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even
more harmless internet creativity.
