Angsty teens jostle for shelf space with a silent penguin and farm animals bent on taking to the skies.
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Vows of silence
No Talking
Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 146 pages
THE girls and boys of Laketon Elementary don’t get along and the
animosity usually results in a lot of loud, disorderly behaviour. One
day, Dave Packer, the boy with probably the biggest mouth in the
school, decides to keep mum all day. When he hears Lynsey Burgess, one
of his sworn enemies, jabbering away during lunch break, he breaks his
silence in order to throw an insult her way.
This, of course, has repercussions, perhaps the most surprising being a contest to see which group will succeed in saying the least in a two-day period. Suddenly, the teachers are faced with overwhelming silence. Will the headmistress be able to cope? And will anyone learn any lessons about the power of words, said and unsaid?
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The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
Author: Suzanne Harper
Publisher: HarperTeen, 368 pages
SPARROW Delaney has a secret. She’s a psychic who is able to communicate with ghosts. When she moves to a new school, she hopes no one will find out about her “gift”.
However, there’s someone who has other plans for her: a dead boy who won’t leave Sparrow alone until she helps him move on to “the other side”! What wouldn’t Sparrow give for some normal boy problems!
Incarceron
Author: Catherine Fisher
Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books, 464 pages
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INCARCERON is a prison that combines high technology and medieval methods to horrifying and brutal effect. At this place, the descendants of the original prisoners live out their lives in miserable and savage conditions.
One inmate, Finn, dreams of escape while the warden’s daughter, Claudia also longs wistfully for release from a different sort of incarceration: a sheltered and stifling life entirely controlled by her father. Then Finn and Claudia both find a crystal key that enables them to communicate. This could mean freedom for the two of them, but at what price?
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Miss America
Author: Suzanne Phillips
Publisher: Young Picador, 208 pages
ACCORDING to 17-year-old Chloe Doe, no one is completely happy with his or her job and it’s no different for her. She is a prostitute who’s been sent to the Madeline Parker Institute for Girls where attempts are being made to reform her.
But Chloe doesn’t want to be reformed and she doesn’t want to examine her past or try to find out why she feels the way she does about things. Or at least, she doesn’t until she meets her counsellor, Dr Dearborn. With him, she learns to let her guard down and starts to believe that she’s worth something and deserves nothing but the best.
Penguin
Author: Polly Dunbar
Publisher: Candlewick Press, 40 pages
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BEN is delighted to find himself presented with a penguin as a gift, but why does the bird say nothing? No matter what Ben says or does to it, the penguin remains passive and silent.
Will Ben ever get a response? What form will it take and will he like it when he gets it? Don’t be fooled by little penguin’s poker face. This bird has a lot up his fin!
Farmyard Flyers
Author: Mike Bostock
Publisher: Egmont Books, 32 pages
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THE animals on Farmer Jolly’s farm are extremely well looked after. You could even say that Jolly is over-indulgent, especially if you ever caught sight of the pig who spends all day lounging around reading aviation magazines and drinking iced lemonade.
But the good farmer has been rather distracted of late and when the animals start hearing strange noises coming from the barn in the dead of the night, they start getting suspicious. Pig leads the investigation and Farmer Jolly’s secret is uncovered. Can the animals help him get it off the ground?
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