Lessons to learn, by Natasha Judd

A novel about choices. After a tragedy, Charlotte leaves New Zealand to teach in Korea. Her only previous experience has been teaching Sunday School. Korea brings huge cultural challenges and as well, Charlotte has to deal with issues in her past.

'Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: a storyteller's journey' by Michael Morpurgo

How do you become a writer? Where do you get your inspiration? In this book Michael Morpurgo explains with stories written through, and about, his life.

Unheard Voices ed. Malorie Blackman

Stories and poems collected together by Malorie Blackman to mark the 200th anniversary of British legislation which banned the slave trade.

There are real accounts as well as extracts from books written by authors such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Gary Paulsen and Malorie Blackman herself.

Double or die by Charlie Higson

This is the third book in the Young Bond series, which tell about the adventures of the young James Bond at school in the 1930s. Not that he spends much time at school - you can't when one of your masters has gone missing and the only clue is a mysterious letter. If you have ever wanted to know more about how to solve cryptic crosswords, then this book gives you a lot of information. Probably, crosswords aren't your thing. In which case, 'Double or Die' is action from beginning to end and you'll really enjoy it.

Taking off by Janice Marriott

Life isn't always fun; sometimes rotten things happen, and then how do you cope? For Alana it's the possibility of going blind. For Tommy it's having no father and a mother who's too spaced out to care. And for Amira it is the struggle to make a new life in a land where you don't even speak the language.

Janice Marriott sets her story in an isolated New Zealand community on an estuary. There's lots of information about birds and flying - information which in the end becomes a matter of life and death.

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Will Burroughs and his father have one thing in common - they like digging! Usually their digs and tunnels turn up bits and pieces of junk like bottles or broken tools but this time they come across something else entirely. And then Will's father disappears. Not only that, but their tunnels do too.

What's happening and why? Their search puts them in deadly danger.

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

A story about first love. He's been kicked out of two boarding schools and he's now at St Oswald's - terrible food, bullying and tired, tyranical masters.

Finn, mysterious, and totally self-sufficient, living alone in a little hut on the Sussex coast is everything he would like to be. Or is he?