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Being Miss Nobody by Tamsin Winter
Contemporary Fiction
11-year-old Rosalind is so shy she can't speak in front of others and is bullied by her classmates. When her brother Seb suggests starting a blog to expose the bullies, blog persona Miss Nobody is born. But soon the school is obsessed, with people getting hurt and falsely accused of being Miss Nobody. Rosalind knows she must speak up. But how?
HALO: Retribution by Troy Denning
Science Fiction
December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents threatens the tenuous peace in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet admiral Graselyn Tuwa and the abduction of her family. It is a provocation so outrageous that the Office of Naval Intelligence must retaliate swiftly and ferociously - but only after its operatives identify her killer and rescue the hostages.
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Science Fiction
John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving, those who hunt him will find and kill him.
It is just a matter of time before John's secret is revealed. He was once one of nine. Three of them have been killed.
John is Number Four. He knows that he is next ...
Red Day by Sandy Fussell
Australian Author
Set in a modern-day small town among the remnants of a Japanese POW camp, this is the story of Charlie. Charlie has synaesthesia and hence, sees and hears differently: people have auras, days of the week are coloured, and numbers and letters have attitudes. But when Charlie meets Japanese exchange student, Kenichi, her senses intensify, and she experiences flashbacks, nausea, and hears unfamiliar voices in her head pulling her back to the town’s violent past. This is heartfelt contemporary storytelling at its best.
From You to Me by K.A. Holt
Contemporary Fiction
Amelia Peabody lives in a small town where nothing changes. After losing her big sister, Clara, a few years ago, Amelia can't handle any more change. But when she starts eighth grade, she accidentally receives a letter that Clara had written to herself. In it, there's a list of things she'd wanted to do before the end of middle school and never finished. Amelia wonders if it's a sign from Clara. Maybe if she completed the list, her heart would stop hurting so much, and she could go back to being her old self. But as she makes her way through, Amelia finds that there's no going back, only forward. And she realizes she'll have to put her own spin on Clara's list to grow and change in the ways she needs to.
