Jean-Claude Mourlevat

YF MOU

Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier. --Publisher's description.

Sean Patrick Little

YF LIT

A shadowy, underground, anti-America paramilitary group called the Trust has pooled its resources and contracted a brilliant geneticist to force the next step in human evolution. The doctor, unaware of the group's true purposes, chooses seven children from a bank of DNA profiles and has them brought to 'the Home,' the name the kids give to the laboratory where they are raised. Through their adolescences, they are subjected to gene splicing, chemical enhancements, mechanical and biological implants, and rigorous testing. When Posey, who was treated with avian DNA, begins a massive physical change, the other six teenagers realize that their time with the Home is coming to an end and decide to steal Posey and run.

Mandy Hager

NZ YF HAG

The Crossing, the first of the 'Blood of the Lamb' trilogy, is set on a fictional Pacific island, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event (a solar flare) in 2012 threw the world into complete chaos. At that time, a large cruise ship 'Star of the Sea' had just foundered at the entrance to the main lagoon. This cruise ship, and her accompanying crew, forms a temporary sanctuary for the island's inhabitants. Over the intervening years, the descendants of the original ship's captain and officers manipulate Christian texts to implant themselves as 'gods'. With greater resources and reserves than the islanders, this white elite re-builds a society that is predominantly designed to meet its own needs - especially one specialised 'need'...the need for blood. A leukaemia-related disease (attributed to the radiation from the solar flare) has reached epidemic proportions, with few able to escape its grasp. As pharmaceutical intervention is no longer an option, the elite have developed a method of maintaining their strength and prolonging their lives once diagnosed.

Chris Morphew

YF MOR

The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use 'Tabitha' to do it. But who is Tabitha? What's really going on inside the Shackleton building? And why does Peter's dad's name keep turning up in the search for answers?

Celia Rees

YF REE

Wild and beautiful, spoilt and wilful, Sovay finds that her cosseted life in rural England has not prepared her for life as a highway robber, for defending the honour of her family or for trying to save herself from corruption and evil. As Sovay becomes more and more embroiled in adventures she could never have imagined, a story of dark intrigue, thwarted passions and sinister intentions is revealed to her. Will she be able to survive, and if she does so, at

 

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Simeon Wright

364.1 WRI

Deborah Ellis

Y 956.70443 ELL

Provides interviews with twenty-three Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.

Valérie Zenatti

Y 956.94 ZEN

This is the story of Valerie as she finishes her exams, breaks up with her boyfriend and then leaves to take up her national service with the Israeli army. Nothing has prepared her for the strict routines, gruelling marches, lack of sleep, poor food, absence of privacy or crushing of initiative.

Eva Mozes Kor

Y 940.5318 KOR

Eva Mozes Kor was ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival.--From book jacket.

Mark Inglis

Y796.522092 z ING

A below-the-knee amputation on both legs has not stopped Mark Inglis from living life to the max. He tells of his experiences trapped in an ice cave on Mt Cook, his recovery and rehabilitation after the amputation, his attendance at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, and his return to Mt Cook. Suggested level: secondary.

 

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Adam Gallardo

YGN GAL

Sylvia is adopted, super-smart and super-strong. She's always felt like she didn't belong and she wants to find out some answers... before the answers find her. This debut graphic novel for teens is full of colour and packed with kapow. Ages 13+.

Francois Rivière

YGN RIV

An imaginative graphic novel chronicles the imaginary adventures of author Jules Verne during his writing of the classic 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, detailing his encounters with an Indian princess on an unusual quest, an orphaned boy with a mysterious package, and an eccentric artist known for his fantastical creations. Weaving together details of Verne's own life with events aboard the infamous Nautilus, François Riviere and Serge Micheli tell a powerful, and cryptic, tale of art, science, and passion.

John Jackson Miller

YGN MIL

 

 

 

 

 

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Jane Mitchell

YF MIT

It's an ordinary morning at 9 year old Rafiq's school in Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers are ripped apart by gunfire. Kashmiri Freedom Fighters have raided the village in search of new recruits - they scrawl a line in chalk across the school-room wall, any boy whose height is above the line will be taken to fight.

Chris Morphew

YF MOR

Luke is having a rough year. He has moved with his mum to Phoenix, a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, built from the ground up by the enigmatic Shackleton Co-operative. There are no cars, no phone lines, and a private security force instead of police.

Chris Morphew

YF MOR

The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use 'Tabitha' to do it. But who is Tabitha? What's really going on inside the Shackleton building? And why does Peter's dad's name keep turning up in the search for answers?

Stephen Davies

YF DAV

Long ago in the ancient city of Timbuktu a student pulled off the most daring heist in African history, the theft of 100 million pounds worth of gold. The stolen treasure has remained hidden until now, when teenage hacker Danny Temple discovers a cryptic Arabic manuscript. It's a good job that Danny is a keen traceur (free runner) because he has to run across rooftops and leap from buildings to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. His nightmarish and adrenalin-charged quest leads him all the way to sub-Saharan Africa, and the mysterious cliffs of Bandiagara.

Jack Heath

YF HEA

Six of Hearts is sealed inside a torpedo, blasting his way at 300 kilometres an hour towards a warship. His mission: to steal canisters containing a weaponised strain of the SARS virus. If he fails, ChaoSonic will use the virus to wipe out an uprising that is tearing the City apart. And that is the least of Six's problems. Vanish is still on the loose. So is Retuni Lerke. And a scientist has designed a new weapon – one more dangerous than anything Six has ever seen before. One that could destroy him, the Deck, and anyone else who dares to oppose ChaoSonic. Six has to find the weapon and eliminate the threat it poses because ChaoSonic can't always control their creations. He is living proof of that.