With heartache, family disputes and terrorism thrown in the mix, it’s a UK favourite. Noughts and Crosses aren’t supposed to hang out, be friends, or fall in love. Callum is a Nought, “colourless” and part of the group that were once slaves to the Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, part of the elite dark-skinned and powerful. Harriet soon realises that the modeling world doesn’t seem to care for her either, and she must try to figure out what she wants to do with her life.Īnother one that every student seems to want to read. Then she’s spotted by a modeling agency and things start to turn around. It’s the story of ultra-smart Harriet, who can’t quite seem to fit in.
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This is another series where it doesn’t matter how many copies I buy, the shelf is always empty. Not just fight, but fight-fight, like, to the death. It’s the story of triplets, all with special powers, who must fight for right to be Queen Crowned. I have some tweens in the library obsessed with this series. The story of four very different teens trying to survive their home life, their town, and themselves, it’ll make the room seem very dusty all of a sudden. I had a couple of students read this and watched with glee as they pushed it on every student that came into the library for a period of two weeks. The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcockġ970 Alaska might as well have been Mars for all we know. It’s also about the depths a mother will go to protect her family and just how devastating war is to the family bond. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniĪn epic history detailing over three decades of war in Afghanistan.