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School's Out Forever

James Patterson

Sequel to The Angel Experiment in the Maximum Ride series. Hybrid bird-humans fly around America fleeing from the Erasers (half human, half werewolf). For a brief time they are taken in by an FBI agent and even manage to hide their identity and go to a normal school before their past catches up with them. Lots of thrills for fantasy fans.

9780755335091 Headline Book Publishing, 2007

King Dork

Frank Portman

Tom Henderson is a nerdy outsider, feeling alienated from the world. He is obsessed by J D Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye and is dealing with social issues and family quarrels. He attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s death and cope with encounters with the opposite sex. A humorous and witty look at teenage life.

9780141322803 Penguin, 2007

Making Money

Terry Pratchett

Con-man Moist von Lipwig discovers that being in charge of the Royal Mint is not all it is cracked up to be, with the mint in financial difficulties, a vampire as chief cashier, and enemies attempting to assassinate him and destroy his ambition to make money. The latest in the Discworld series.

9780385611015 Doubleday, 2007

What I Was

Meg Rosoff

In this story for older readers by the Carnegie Medal winning author of teenage novel How I Live Now a man reflects on an extraordinary friendship formed while he was at boarding school, which had devastating and far-reaching consequences.

9780141383439 Penguin, 2007

Good Girls

Laura Ruby

Audrey is a good girl: a good student, daughter and friend. On the night she dumps Luke, someone takes a humiliating picture of her doing something ‘good girls’ don’t do and it’s passed all round her school via email and mobile. Soon even her teachers and parents know. Audrey has to learn that life goes on no matter how different it is to what you imagined.

9780007242047 HarperCollins, 2007