Since parents started reading Harry Potter after lights-out more and more books written for younger readers are crossing over into the adult market. These genre-jumping books will be cherished by both adults and children for years to come...
Meg Rosoff's stunning debut novel won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode...
Melvin Burgess's books are never easy; they deal with difficult subjects such as homelessness, hunting, witchcraft, sex, child abuse and drug addiction. His writing is powerful and his characters are drawn with sensitivity and power that makes them leap from the page and into life. Scabrous and salacious, Melvin Burgess's Doing It is no exception. It caused much controversy when it was published and has since been praised by both children and adults alike.
This is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. This is a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues. Salinger's slang style creates an effect of conversation, and it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you.
Lewis Carroll was the original crossover author, whose scintillating work has always appealed to both parents and children. The bestselling Annotated Alice was the first work to decode the wordplay and mathematical riddles in his classic stories. This Definitive Edition comgines the notes of Gardner's 1960s edition, together with hundreds of newer discoveries.
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