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Æurtha Berton lives a peaceful life high on the Yorkshire moors with her father, adopted brother Cole, and dog Carla. When she leaves home for Greenhay School, she bonds with a kind English teacher and discovers the joys of poetry and stories. While at school, cracks begin to appear in her idyllic home life. A rich neighbor wreaks a series of vile acts, and Æurtha discovers the unseen evils that can claim the innocent and ruin the poor. Will Æurtha manage to remain in her beloved home on the moors? Will she be separated from her soul mate, Cole?

When Tim Gaunt becomes seduced by sex, drugs, and rock and roll, he cannot predict where it will lead him, nor the unwitting betrayal that is lying in wait to claim his future. In the penultimate book of Dominic Jericho’s coming-of-age series, Timothy Gaunt and the Wigginton Grave leads Danny’s longtime best friend to an earth-shattering revelation about his present identity and his future fate.

Barely able to control his shaking hand, Danny Canterbury opened the leather bound book, pressed his pencil against the page, and began to write.... When bookworm Eva Acacia wins a place at Oxford University she discovers friendship and romance. But when she travels round Europe she discovers shades of darkness in her new boyfriend that threaten to overwhelm her conscience and define her destiny. In the final book of Dominic Jericho’s coming-of-age series Danny’s adventures come to a collapsing end in a way only he can write.

Amanita reached into her jacket and prised the letter from between her iPod and her headphones. She gazed at the writing on the front for a moment. It’s eloquent loops and scrawl communicating her father’s handwriting style - something she had never known before. Then she opened it.

With one year remaining of sixth-form a tragedy strikes the heart of a close-knit group of teenagers. As political forces threaten to claim and overrun their town, two girls fall hopelessly in love. But neither is aware how fraught with danger and peril their love will become. In this searing portrait of a community on the brink, Sandi Burrill and the Beach of Flames eloquently explores the desperation of teenage love trapped by a forbidding and uncontrollable environment.

"Yesterday was exactly the same, and tomorrow would be the same again. Surely there would never be an end. The blissful and vast sky of unblotted playfulness seemed to extend indefinitely. They were five years old, and the world was as young as they were."

When four school friends go camping in the Snowfall Grove, they unwittingly uncover the hidden secrets of their new teachers. But as their final year at Plunket’s comes to a close, will they reveal the biggest secret of all - the one hiding in their midst?

When Danny Canterbury begins his fourth year at St. Oliver Plunket’s all he wants is for fellow student Janna Chisely to notice him. But when sinister episodes shake the school, Danny finds himself at the center of a destructive plot. Can the enigmatic Chardelia Foss help him rescue the truth before it becomes too late? Chardelia Foss and the River of Fear is a startling debut that marks the pain of first love within the often dark skies of school.