Jack Gantos had a peripatetic childhood around the US and the Caribbean. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a Caribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university.

Andrew Kindness witnesses the death of a father and son who are sucked into quicksand. Unable to help at the time, Andy is haunted by this terrible event. When his granddad shows him the art of cross-breeding daffodils some years later, Andy finds solace in the beauty of the flowers, but he keeps his hobby secret from the villagers.

Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list.

Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway.

Flightsend is Charlie's new home, whether she likes it or not. Her mother sees it as an end to all that's gone so tragically wrong, but for Charlie it's the end of her family, not to mention her social life. They had been a proper family. Mum, Sean and Charlie, with a new baby sister on the way.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her foster father, learns to read.

In his final year at the Royal College of Music, star pianist Flynn Laukonen has the world at his feet. He is getting concert bookings for what promises to be a glittering career. Yet he knows he is skating on thin ice - only two pills a day keep him from plunging back into the whirlpool of manic depression that once threatened to destroy him.

Glenn Jackson has moved with his father from Burnley to Torbeck in the Lake District. Harlequin is living in an abandoned shack, disguising himself behind clown's make-up. When Harlequin rescues Glenn from falling into the slate mine, the two form a friendship and Glenn comes closer to discovering the secret that Harlequin is running away from.

William Milmullen took six pupils to the lakeside, but returned only after a creature devoured the six boys right before his eyes. He named the creature 'The Mourn', and declared himself 'Mourner'. He took the responsibility to appease the creature by feeding livestock and vowed his family would be responsible for the safety of the town.

Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant.

A moving story about three street children, about cruelty, and neglect but also about the healing power of friendship and love.

Fifteen year old Doria is in the misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back to Morocco to find a wife who can give him a boy. This novel tells the story of Doria who is both clued up and innocent, acutely aware of what's in store for her and powerless to change it. She is funny, clever and tragically trapped.

Raven is a deeply disturbed teenager, who, after witnessing the death of his mother, is placed in foster care. Meanwhile, at school, a companion comes in the form of Lotte. Together, they track down Raven's mum's killer, with the goal of exposing him to the police. But their carefully crafted plan goes dangerously wrong.

This novel is about friendship, courage and loss.

Fifteen-year-old Samson Ashburner has always felt like an outsider - even before the accident that left his face scarred and his confidence shattered. With the jeers and taunts of the local children and his mother ringing in his ears, Samson malingers like a dark cloud over the Cumbrian landscape.