Alexia Casale, Stephen Chbosky, Cassandra Clare and Jason Cockcroft
Alexia Casale - House of Windows
Teen 14+.
363 pages.
Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not that his strategy is working. When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose.
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Teen 14+.
213 pages.
Charlie is a shy and introspective boy, a wallflower always standing on the edge of the action. We learn about him through the letters he writes to someone of an undisclosed name, age and gender.
Cassandra Clare - City of Bones
Teen 14+.
485 pages.
This is the book where Clary Fray first discovered the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world and back to their own.
The book where she first met Jace Wayland, the best Shadowhunter of his generation. The book that started it all.
Jason Cockcroft - We Were Wolves
Teen.
216 pages.
The boy lives in a caravan on his own in the woods. His dad, John, is in prison and promises to get out soon. All the boy needs to do is survive alone for a little while longer.
But dark forces are circling - like the bad man he's been warned about, who arrives asking questions; and the rucksack the boy must keep hidden; and maybe, just maybe, more ancient forces that have lain asleep for an age.