Puffin Teenage Fiction

Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle.

Contains: The boy who talked with animals The hitchhiker The Mildenhall treasure The swan The wonderful story of Henry Sugar Lucky break [A piece of cake](

As MCC Berkshire, the mysterious, book-obsessed man helping in Ailsa's mother's antique shop, tells wild stories that persuade customers to buy various items, teenaged Ailsa believes he is a liar but fears that he is not.

A young boy is stunned by the death of his English teacher and has reasons to doubt the verdict of suicide.

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.

Dark young adult fantasy novel. A plague of man-eating cockatrices has invaded Britain. Two plucky youngsters board the armoured train built by the military to take soldiers to the heart of the problem.