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Ways To Live Forever, by Sally Nicholls

My name is Sam.
I am eleven years old.
I collect stories and fantastic facts
By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.

 

Romance: None

Gore: None

Language: None

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini

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An ordinary farm boys’ life is changed forever when he finds a beautiful blue stone in a forest called the Spine. Taking it back to the house where he, his cousin and his uncle lives, he wonders how much it is worth. But when a band of dangerous and violent strangers come to his village, demanding and searching desperately for the stone, Eragon realises he has to leave.

Then the stone hatches- and war breaks out…

 

Romance: mild

Gore: occasional, moderate

Language: mild

When Lightning Strikes, by Meg Cabot

Jess Mastriani is not an ordianry teenager. She spends her lunchtime in detentions, is saving up for a motorbike and never wears skirts. Then, on ordinary afternoon, she is sheltering from a storm in a bleacher when it is hit by lightning and Jess- who is leaning against the metal pole- is also struck. She is shocked, scared and amazed she isn’t injured.

But the next morning, she wakes up with strange knowledge in her head. She remembers seeing some ‘lost child’ adverts on milk bottles- and she knows exactly where those children are. She calls 1-800-Where-R-U to tell them of her findings, and sets of a deadly chain of events that would have Jess Mastriani pursed by the law…

 

Romance: Moderate (in later books)

Gore: Moderate/Strong

Language: None

0.4, by Mike Lancaster

It’s a brave new world…

‘My name is Kyle Straker, and I don’t exist anymore.’

So begins the infamous Straker story, recorded on old audio tapes. Some think the tapes are a hoax. But perhaps the tapes hold the history of a past world…  if the tapes are true, then the world we live in – everything we know- is a lie. And if everything we know is a lie, does that mean we are, too?

 

Romance: None

Gore: Moderate

Language: None

Gone, by Michael Grant

Poof.

In the small town of Perdido Beach, all adults and children above the age of 15 disappear.

It’s great for a while.

But when fires start to break out, and cars begin to crash-

It’s not so great after all.

 

People are beginning to gain Supernatural powers, from Green balls of light, to teleporting.

Animals are becoming even more dangerous.

 

And did I mention the Darkness is rising?

Romance: Very Mild

Gore: Very strong

Language: Moderate

Hacker, by Malorie Blackman

Vicky’s father is acused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works. Vicky is determined to prove his innocence, but there’s only one way to do so- she must hack into the bank’s computer files. It’s dangerous, it’s crazy… but will it work?

Romance: None

Gore: None

Swearing: None