Collection: Young Adult Fiction (Academy Use Only)

Danny is obsessed with two things: football- especially City Football Club - and investigating crimes. When England and City footballing hero Sam Roberts is reported missing the day after Danny saw him being taken, blindfolded, into the bowels of the City FC stadium late at night, he's determined...

Miki is intrigued by handsome Hiro, a quiet and secretive boy who has just arrived at her rural school. But Hiro is even more mysterious than Miki realises, as she overcomes his reluctance and slowly gets him to open up, she is drawn into an amazing new world.

An 11-year-old boy discovers he has strange powers, and a future that holds mystery, adventure - and death.

Over-run by rats, the council of Dulwich promise charmer Diek Wustapha 500 to get rid of them. Once the rats have gone, they renege on their deal. Diek charms the children of Dulwich out of the city and it falls to Jimmy Quickstint and his useless friends to bring them back.

On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house destroyed that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun.

16-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry.

When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, Alex Rider goes from schoolboy to superspy within days as his world is turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex must discover the truth about the Stormbreaker computer.

The Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny are exceedingly unlucky. Their parents have been killed, and they are forced to go and stay with their Uncle Olaf. It soon turns out that Olaf has evil plans for the children.