Sara Barnard

A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Beautiful Broken Things

Something Certain, Maybe

A heart-wrenching exploration of grief from a bestselling YA author, set in a landscape corrupted by fame and the scrutiny that comes from living in the shadow of a star.

To the world, Lizzie Beck is a superstar: famous, talented and beloved.
To Emmy, she is simply Beth: her brilliant older sister, her idol.

But then Beth takes her own life, and all the light in the world disappears.

Now Emmy is lost. Amidst the media storm and overwhelming public grief, she must fight to save her own memories of her sister – and find out who she is without her.

Where the Light Goes

Joshua Stolte

19th Century Navajo preschooler Walks With A Stumble wants nothing more than to be a great chef someday. The only problem is, well, he walks with a stumble. After trying to help only to lose most of his family's food stores for the winter, Walks With A Stumble learns that the only way to achieve your dreams is to just be yourself.

Little Spoon

Ja byłam odważna. Ona była szalona. Razem sprawiałyśmy kłopoty Caddy i Rosie są nierozłączne. Bardzo się różnią, ale to tylko je do siebie zbliża. Gdy Caddy kończy szesnaście lat, zdaje sobie sprawę, że chciałaby być taka jak jej przyjaciółka – pewna siebie, przebojowa i zabawna. Wtedy w ich życie wkracza śliczna oraz – jak się okazuje – skrywająca pewną tajemnicę Suzanne. I wszystko staje się jeszcze bardziej skomplikowane. Przeszłość Suzanne stopniowo wychodzi na jaw, teraźniejszość wymyka się spod kontroli, a Caddy zaczyna dostrzegać, że problemy mogą być bardzo ekscytujące. Jednak budowanie przyjaźni i próby zaleczenia starych ran są dużo boleśniejsze, niż którakolwiek z dziewczyn się spodziewa. Caddy wkrótce przekonuje się, że kłopoty potrafią się mnożyć w niesłychanym tempie. „Piękna opowieść o sile i złożoności kobiecej przyjaźni”. Holy Bourne, autorka Przeznaczonych „Czułam się, jakbym żyła tą książką”. Zoe Sugg (Zoella), autorka Girl Online

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Perfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Sarah Dessen, this lushly written and heart-wrenching novel follows a teen girl on a one-way trip away from her life and slowly reveals what made her leave it all behind. Sometimes you have to leave your life behind to find your place in the world… ​Peyton King has always wanted to belong. She seizes the opportunity to start over at a new school and finally finds real connections with the friends she’s always dreamed of and even an actual boyfriend! But after flying high in her newfound happiness, Peyton comes crashing down when reality sets in and the ones she cares about let her down. Peyton’s friends can’t fix her and she can’t help them if they won’t let her. If she wants to find real, lasting happiness, Peyton will have to search somewhere else. With nothing but her sketchpad and a backpack, she buys a one-way ticket and gets on a plane. How far will she go to change her story?

Destination Anywhere

Something Certain, Maybe is a powerful novel about first love, friendships and embracing the uncertainty of an unknowable future, from Sara Barnard, winner of the YA Book Prize. Rosie is ready for her life to begin, because nothing says new life like going to university. After years of waiting and working hard, she's finally on the road that will secure her future. Except university turns out to be not what she hoped or imagined, and although she's not exactly unhappy – really – she might be a little bit worried that she doesn't really like her course much. Or her flatmates. Or, really . . . anything? But it's normal to be homesick (right?) and everything will have settled in a month or two, and it's totally fine that her friends seem so much happier than she is, and that the doctors don’t seem to know what’s wrong with her mother. And then she meets Jade, and everything starts to look a little brighter. At least, it does if she’s only looking at Jade. But is first love enough when everything else is falling apart?

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