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The Last Days

Scott Westerfeld

A fast-paced sequel to Peeps, music permeates this novel. Mysterious, dark happenings have taken over New York City’s hot, humid summer, where vampires stalk the streets. One night Moz, an aspiring guitarist, meets Pearl, an attractive and off-centre musical genius. Together with his friend Zahler, they search for promising musicians to complete their sound. They find their sound while saving the world.

9781905654062 Atom, 2007

Inside the Cage

Matt Whyman

When his attempts to hack his way into the security network at Fort Knox are discovered, brilliant college student Carl Hobbes is arrested and sent to a detention camp for terrorists in the Arctic. However, one of the terrorists stages a break out and Carl, terrified that he will be suspected of being the brains behind the action, must decide whether he is better off fending for himself in the subzero temperatures of the hostile Arctic wilderness or remaining inside the cage.

9781416926696 Simon & Schuster, 2007

Fight Game

Kate Wild

The fight game takes potential fighters off the streets, trains them and keeps them fighting in a perpetual game for rich men to gamble on. Freedom Smith has been wrongfully accused of murder. He makes a deal with the police to find out what is really going on within the game by infiltrating the organisation. What he discovers is really sinister.

9781905294237 Chicken House, 2007

Kiss

Jacqueline Wilson

Carl and Sylvie are neighbours and have always been close and played together. At fourteen Sylvie’s regard for Carl is changing into an adult love but her feelings are not shared and he becomes distant from her. She doesn’t understand, becomes hurt and rejected and gets in with an unsuitable crowd at her school. Eventually she understands that Carl will never feel that way about a girl. Another great story of teenage angst from Jacqueline Wilson.

9780385610100 Doubleday, 2007