"My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
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On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make choices of her own. Watch the book trailer below. She turns to face the future in a world that's falling apart. For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs. Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead... Divergent is currently being made into a movie that is due to be released in 2014. For now you can watch the book trailer below and borrow the book from the LRC. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. John Green is an award winning author and The Fault in Our Stars has received incredible reviews. If you're ready to laugh and cry, then cry some more This is the book for you! Watch the book trailer below. All the books below are newly released in 2013, have great reviews and available to borrow from the Learning Resource Centre. The Hit A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. Death. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. By Any Other Name I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never heard of. How to pick? Nothing that would stand out, nothing that would link me to the past - those were the instructions. New girl, new school, new home, new life - everything about Holly is new. That's the point of witness protection: nobody knows the truth. But one wrong move will put her whole family in danger... Going Vintage Sixteen-year-old Mallory loves her boyfriend, Jeremy and she's sure feels the same way. Until she accidentally logs on to his Authentic Life profile, that is. He's been cheating on her ...online! Mallory's life is falling apart and technology is the cause. And then she finds a list, written by her grandma when she was Mallory's age. All her grandma had to worry about was sewing dresses and planning dinner parties. Things were so much simpler in the 1960s. Maybe it's time for Mallory to go vintage... The New Recruit What if your prank killed your best friend. Could you live with yourself? You try to forget and move on; you enroll in Army training, you want to make something of your life. The training is tough and it almost breaks you. But you survive; you know you'll make a good soldier. Finally, when you're out in Afghanistan, under enemy fire, you come face-to-face with your best friend's brother. He still blames you for his brother's death. You now have more to fear than just enemy soldiers ... Poison Boy Poison boy Dalton Fly, a lowly food taster to the rich, has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine. But his mate is less fortunate, and Dalton wants answers. Who murdered his friend and what were they were really after? With the help of aristocratic girl, Scarlet Dropmore, whose life he unwittingly saved, he sets out to rescue his city from the poisoners within. In Darkness In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me. One: I am alive. Two: there is no two. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty, terrified and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Soley; men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that blazes inside him and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost seven years ago ... Zom-B Can you love a bullying racist thug if he's your father? How do you react when confronted with your darkest inner demons? What do you do when zombies attack? B Smith is about to find out... The bestselling series "The Mortal Instruments" are the latest brilliant books to be adapted for the big screen! The movie based on the first book "City of Bones" will be released in August, which leaves plenty of time to read the books before you watch it! The Book - City of Bones Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family - and the battle for the fate of the world. The books are available to borrow in the LRC. Be the first to leave a review of the books on the reviews page. Visit the WEBSITE The Movie - City of Bones Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series. Watch the trailer below. I don't really need to say anything about this book... The video promo says it all... An explosion in a nuclear power plant. Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants. A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction. 'No', whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. 'That's not me. You're not me'. Cameron Riley is about to discover that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... One of the new books in the LRC this week is Monster Republic. Described as "Edgy", "Exilarating" and "Power-Paced", Monster Republic is the first book in a new series by Ben Horton. Have you got the guts? After the success of The Lord of The Rings, another of J. R. R. Tolkein's books, The Hobbit is now being made into a film and will be in cinemas in December - That leaves you with plenty of time to read the book before you watch the movie!! The Hobbit is set before The Lord of The Rings and follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo's uncle. |
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