Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

This is the story of Greg Heffley, who's stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. He writes a journal, which is not a diary, because he expects it'll come in handy when he is rich and famous.

Set in America, a very funny book about life in school.

Furnace: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

Beneath heaven is hell. Beneath hell is Furnace. Furnace Penitentiary. The world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. One way in, no way out. Once you're here, you're here until you die.

Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has no choice: he has to find a way out before the Wheezers come for him.

Before he's brought back to his cell scarred, twisted and hungry for blood. Before he is turned into a monster.

Numbers by Rachel Ward

Since her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else's, a number pops into her head - the date on which they will die.

Knowing that nothing lasts forever, Jem avoids relationships, but when she meets a boy called Spider, they plan a day out together. A day that turns out to be very unusual!

Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you. Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones? When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there.

Bobby doesn't care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?

The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan

A tense contemporary thriller about two boys escaping from a remorseless abductor. Sam knows that he and his friend Lloyd made a colossal mistake when they accepted the ride home.

They have ended up in a dark mansion in the middle of nowhere with man who means to harm them. But Sam doesn't know how to get them out. They were trapped, then separated.

Now they are alone. Will either of them get out alive? This gripping and hypnotic thriller will have you reading late into the night...