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Featured Categories : Young Adult : Adventure & Thrillers

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions)

  John Boyne

  
  
   

• Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: 6 (Artemis Fowl)

  Eoin Colfer

  
  
   

• The General (CHERUB)

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• The Singing: The Fourth Book of Pellinor (The Books of Pellinor)

  Alison Croggon

  
  
   

• Tom's Midnight Garden

  Philippa Pearce

  
  
   

• Jimmy Coates: Power (Jimmy Coates)

  Joe Craig

  
  
   

• Snakehead (Alex Rider)

  Anthony Horowitz

  
  
   

• CHERUB 4: The Killing

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• CHERUB: Class A

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• The Sleepwalker (CHERUB)

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• Why the Whales Came

  Michael Morpurgo

  
  
   

• Mad Dogs (CHERUB)

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• Castle (The Seventh Tower)

  Garth Nix

  
  
   

• Man Vs Beast (CHERUB)

  Robert Muchamore

  
  
   

• I am the Messenger

  Markus Zusak

  
  
   

• Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony: 5

  Eoin Colfer

  
  
   

• The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues) (The 39 Clues) (The 39 Clues)

  Rick Riordan

  
  
   

• Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception

  Eoin Colfer

  
  
   

• Amber Spyglass, The (Golden Compass) (His Dark Materials) (His Dark Materials)

  Philip Pullman

  
  Philip Pullman brings The Amber Spyglass to the spellbinding "His Dark Materials" sequence, which dazzles everyone who reads it, children and adults alike. After the original Northern Lights, he kept up the quality in The Subtle Knife, the second title in the trilogy. Now he brings the series to an extraordinary conclusion. Will and Lyra, the two children at the heart of the books, have become separated amidst great dangers. Can they find each other, and their friends? Then complete their mysterious quest before it's too late? The great rebellion against the dark powers that hold Lyra's world, and many others, in thrall is nearing its climax. She and Will have crucial parts to play, but they don't know what it is that they must do, and terrible powers are hunting them down.

  The pace of the book is compelling, the writing powerful. Pullman's plotting is intricate and cunning, surprising the reader again and again. Perhaps what is most striking of all, however, is the depth of the characterisation. Lord Asriel, Mrs Coulter, Iorek Byrnison the king of the armoured bears, a host of minor characters, most of all Will and Lyra themselves: the book is a library of beautifully drawn, remarkably convincing characters walking in worlds of marvels.

  In this volume the cosmic dimensions of the story become more prominent, as a great conflict across many universes comes to a head--how well the narrative sustains such immensely weighty resonances is a question critics may well disagree on. The author's beliefs also come more into the open, and with them a polemic anti-religious theme that will please some readers and alienate others.

  Philip Pullman's writing commands immense respect; more than that, it is raising the profile of the best children's books among adults, as demanding critics of all ages fall in love with this remarkable trilogy. --David Pickering

  
   

• Eagle Strike (Alex Rider 4)

  Anthony Horowitz

  
  Anthony Horowitz's fourth fictional foray into the world of British spy agency MI6, Eagle Strike, sees teenage sleuth Alex Rider once again fighting ingenious villains and charming every girl he meets. Eagle Strike, starts out calmly enough with Alex and his lovely companion, Miss Sabina Pleasure, on holiday with her family in the south of France. But before you can say Goldfinger, he spots his old nemesis, renowned assassin Yassen Gregorovich, on the beach. Alex discovers a plan so diabolical that it makes all of his previous adventures seem like a stroll in the Queen Mother's garden. Alex must fight to keep Gregorovich from executing the plans of a mysterious and murderous madman--an operation code-named "Eagle Strike". He will just have to face down a few minor complications first: a virtual reality game that inflicts real pain; a fleet of Porche 911 GT3-driving hit men; and even a near-fatal brush with death aboard the most famous aircraft in the world, Air Force One. Eagle Strike, as with all the other ridiculously fun Alex Rider adventures, is a pure pleasure from start to finish. Even the most reluctant of readers won't be able to resist Alex's Bond-like ingenuity and charisma. Anthony Horowitz is a master of pacing, and as Alex swings from one cliff-hanging chapter to the next, Horowitz proves that you don't have to be Shakespeare to pen a crackerjack plot. --Jennifer Hubert, Amazon.com