Collection: Young Adult Spoken Word

In this book for young adults, best-selling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school.

Written by the UK leading wheelchair athlete, this work reveals what has motivated the author through her best and worst times. She has won 14 medals, nine of which are gold, countless European titles, six London Marathons and over 30 world records, catapulting this Welsh wheelchair athlete firml...

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simp...

Alex is a ruthless assassin - of angels. Angels are not benign celestial creatures, but fierce stalkers whose irresistible force allows them to feed off humans. Alex thinks the only good angel is a dead angel, until he meets Willow.

In the depths of a reservoir lives a monstrous creature. Its existence is unknown to anyone except the boy who feeds it. Now the creature has grown huge, and its cage can't hold it much longer. Stephen is a boy with many secrets, and the beast is the biggest. His efforts to free himself of the be...

Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in the bitter miners' strike. Billy's father wants his son to learn to box, but Billy becomes fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet.

Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses and make the dead speak.

Before Carrie Bradshaw became the queen of the New York City social scene, she was a regular girl growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut. How did she turn into one of the most-read social observers of our generation? This book opens in Carrie's senior year of high school.

In a world where water is scarce & deadly jellyfish swim through the sky, mollycoddled teenager Christien dreams of excitement & danger. When he meets the exotic Jenine & her family of Cloud Hunters, he becomes determined to fulfil that dream.

On the night her parents are murdered, Tandy, knows just three things: she was one of the last people to see her parents alive; she and her brothers are the only suspects; and she can't trust anyone - maybe not even herself.