Like Smoke: A Collection
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‘You may just find yourself here’ HARMONY
How often have you felt that you just can’t take it any more? Felt that nothing is worth the headache, the heartache? The good news – you are not alone. The bad news – you are not alone, for every teen carries the angst of teenagedom as a badge of honour and, sometimes, dishonor.
Welcome to the battle zone of twenty young people who stand on the precipice of choices and dilemmas. Gritty stories of courage, hope and love. Stories that are not only for you, but about you.
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Jacob Have I LovedThe remarkable Newbery-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way. Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise’s friends, their parents’ love, her dreams for the future.
For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister’s shadow.
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Boy No. 32It was dark. And I was waiting to die. In the movies your whole life flashes before your eyes before you die. Guess what? Same thing happened. This great life fast forwarded through my head. Except – it wasn’t mine. Someone was inside my head’.
No one has bothered to give Battees a name. Now, as he lies trapped in the rubble of a destroyed orphanage, someone climbs into his head. Rescued, Battees discovers that he is the only one who can put a dreaded terrorist in jail. Suddenly, a lot of people want him dead. Running for his life, he plunges into the dark underbelly of Mumbai. He is sheltered by the dying Eunuch Queen, captured by the terrifying Beggar King and helped by the voice inside his head. Will he make it out alive?
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ElaEla has everything a girl might need. Great friends, cool parents, no pressure to over-achieve and all the space to be herself. On her thirteenth birthday, her perfect world falls apart when she discovers the truth has been kept secret from her.
What happens to Ela as she spirals into rage and grief? Who are the mysterious boy and the giant bird? Will she save herself?
Find out in this compelling novel from Sampurna Chattarji in which the stark realism of Growing up crosses over into the realm of fantasy.
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Because a Fire Was in My HeadBecause a Fire Was in My Head by Michael Morpurgo
A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Lennon, Jo Shapcott and Lewis Carroll. Once read, they won’t be forgotten. This anthology will form the cornerstone to a lifetime’s enjoyment of poetry. -
The GiverThe Giver by Lois Lowry
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colourless, the world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
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