Five months into World War III, Elie and her four remaining friends have barely escaped the Australian town of Wirrawee with their lives and their sanity intact. A group of soldiers have recruited the kids to guide the way to the Wirrawee air base for a risky sabotage mission.
Young Adult (ages 14-18)
Material appropriate for young adults
Monster Blood Tattoo
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl’s name, rossam and sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought.
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she too wants to explore the subterranean world.
Thieves Like Us
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.
The Wrong Hands
Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated.
The Remarkable Life and Times Of Eliza Rose
Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, 15-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion to Nell Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.
Not The End Of The World
A collection of stories that all drift around the common theme of the End of the World.
Storm Thief
Rail and Moa are thieves in a city of chaos. For as long as anyone can remember, Orokos has been lashed by probability storms, violent tempests that change whatever they touch.
Wind Tamer
Archie learns on his tenth birthday that he is about to inherit the family curse of cowardice unless he fights the powerful hurricane that will take his bravery.
Celandine
In Somerset, England, during World War I, Celandine becomes involved in the lives of the little people living on a hill near her family’s farm, while also coming to terms with her own healing abilities and psychic gifts.