My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel . . .
Last summer, Gottie's life fell apart. Her beloved grandfather Grey died and Jason, the boy to whom she lost her heart wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. This summer, still reeling from twin heartbreaks, Gottie is lost and alone and burying herself in equations. Until, after five years absence, Thomas comes home: former boy next door. Former best friend. Former everything. And as life turns upside down again she starts to experience strange blips in time - back to last summer, back to what she should have seen then . . .
During one long, hazy summer, Gottie navigates grief, world-stopping kisses and rips in the space-time continuum, as she tries to reconcile her first heartbreak with her last.
The Square Root of Summer is an astounding and moving debut from Harriet Reuter Hapgood.
When Alice Ticino's pony bolts and crashes into a family of strangers, it changes her life. But Alice must stay away from Snatchcorn, a beautiful stallion, so dangerous that it is soon to be put down. Alice finds that she has a special bond with Snatchcorn. Can
Tessa has just a few months to live. So she compiles her bucket list, her To Do Before I Die list. Number one is sex.
Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up.
Heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming, Before I Die will take you to the very edge.
Iris's grandmother, Mimi, has started to put jam on her scrambled eggs and tie blue ribbons around her fingers to remind her of stuff. Her house, always full of things, is becoming harder and harder to navigate, and when Iris goes to stay, she feels as if a whole life is becoming muddled up. As her grandmother's memory fades, a mystery is uncovered. Who is Coral, and what happened to her?
A moving exploration of memory and stories, told through the eyes of a grandchild losing a beloved grandparent to dementia. Beautifully, engagingly told, this is an ultimately hopeful book for our time.
Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca.
Rafe isn't exactly considered a winner in Hills Village Middle School to say the least, but everything's about to change: he's won a school-wide art competition, and the fabulous prize is getting to jet-set off to Australia for a whirlwind adventure!
But Rafe soon finds that living in the Land Down Under is harder than he could've ever imagined; his host-siblings are anything but welcoming, the burning temperatures are torturous, and poisonous critters are ready to sting or eat him at every step. So with the help of some new misfit friends, Rafe sets out to show everyone what he does best: create utter mayhem!
Previously published as Middle School: Rafe's Aussie Adventure
It comes as a twinge, a signal that
you've reached the exact half point of your life...
Flint knows he will die at 16 so he’s never
really tried to live. With 6 weeks left, he returns to his hometown
with his family, determined to go quietly.
Science-obsessed September interns at the world-renowned
Half Life Institute. She has never grieved the death
of her younger sister who ""half-lifed"" the previous year but she
is determined to find a cure.
Chance brings the two together. A friendship - and then something
more - starts to form. September’s easy warmth gives Flint
permission to enjoy his life, and in turn Flint allows September
to grieve instead of hiding behind smiles and personas.
But time’s running out and Flint hasn’t shared his
secret yet – will their connection prove extraordinary
enough to last beyond those last few weeks, or is their
time together destined to end in heartbreak?
An achingly beautiful romance story from the author of TikTok
bestseller You & Me At the End of the World
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Kathleen Glasgow and Jennifer
Niven
A future classic for the Books That Made Me Cry trend
PRAISE FOR THE HALF LIFE OF LOVE
""Brianna Bourne offers us a moving and enthralling story that
reminds us that love lights our way as we all travel in death's
shadow."" Jeff Zentner, award-winning author
of In the Wild Light and The
Serpent King
Eric is just no good at tests and schoolwork, and his mum thinks he isn't trying hard enough. His grumpy teacher Mr Hodgetts (AKA the Bodge) decides he needs extra help. Then a mysterious package arrives from Eric’s Auntie Rose, containing a small round stone which promises to grant a wish. The wish Eric makes might just change everything . . .
Noah is pretty happy at school - he's in a friendly class, he's got a best mate, Jack, and he's one of the youngest to be picked for the school football team. Then a broken leg keeps him off school for several weeks and on his return there's been a mysterious change of atmosphere. A new boy, Basil, has joined the class and everyone is fascinated by him. The only person who seems to be immune to Basil's charms is class-joke, Bertie, known as Pigface. Try as he might, Noah just can't slip back into his normal place - it seems to have been usurped by Basil. His only choice of partner in class, at lunch, in Games and at break is Pigface. Forced to sample life as an outsider, Noah has a choice - make a desperate effort to get back into the 'inner circle' or get to see life from Pigface's alternative viewpoint.
A funny and insightful story about two boys - one good, one naughty - who start at a new school on the same day. Their records are muddled before they arrive, and as a result the teachers' expectations of them cause them to act very differently from usual. This combines an amusing school story with some interesting insights into how the way people treat us can have a profound effect. An accurately-portrayed school setting, with beautifully-observed depiction of the ways primary-school children try to be accepted, both by their teachers and their clasmates Combines laugh-out loud slapstick humour with interesting insights into school life
