The Secret Garden
★★★☆☆
An orphaned girl is sent to live with a reclusive uncle, where she finds a secret garden which changes the lives of herself and everyone around her
The Outsiders
★★★★★
Two weeks in the life of Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year old "greaser" and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
★☆☆☆☆
Auschwitz as seen by a child... a very deluded and self-involved child.
A Wrinkle in Time
★☆☆☆☆
Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.
Six of Crows
★★★☆☆
A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who has become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.
Shadow and Bone
★★★☆☆
First book of a YA fantasy series with excellent and rich world building and complex characters who are not all stark black-and-white.
Beautiful Creatures
★☆☆☆☆
An unholy mess involving witches & wizards, reincarnation, American civil war, its re-enactment, a teenage romance and the insular mindset of deep south America.
Thirteen Reasons Why
★★★★☆
Clay's crush is dead. Suicide. A couple of weeks later, he gets a box of tapes recorded by her, her suicide note, listing 13 reasons why she did take her own life. He is one of those 13...
The Maze Runner
★☆☆☆☆
Another young-adult dystopian science fiction, in the mould of The Hunger Games
The Fault in our Stars
★★★☆☆
A romance involving a young girl and boy, both in remission from cancer, told from the perspective of the girl Hazel
The Hate U Give
★★★★★
A look into the minds of the victims of racist police brutality, and what sends them over the breaking point
