Collins Booksellers Spring Reading Guide 2018 COLLINS Spring 2018 Catalogue WEB | Page 19

collins booksellers YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOUND Fleur Ferris RRP $19.99 THE EMERALD SEA When her Dad disappears, Beth discovers that he isn’t who she thought he was. Her family’s secret past has caught up with them, and someone wants her dead. Beth has been unwittingly prepared for this moment her entire life. Can she find a way out before they find her? Another thrilling page-turner from the author of Risk, Black and Wreck. Richelle Mead RRP $24.99 Meet Tamsin, the Glittering Court's emerald. Her aspirations make her a fierce competitor, rising to the top of the ranks. But when the ship she boards for the New World is lost at sea, she is thrown off-course. This is the third part of Richelle Mead’s trilogy of interwoven novels. DON’T STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT Siobhan Curham RRP $16.99 Lili Wilkinson RRP $19.99 Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow is an uplifting story of friendship, unity and hope that highlights the important and topical issues surrounding young carers and refugees. What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? After the Lights Go Out is a brilliant and terrifyingly compelling YA novel with life and death stakes that will keep readers on the edge of their seat. IMPOSTORS Scott Westerfeld RRP $19.99 THE SURVIVAL GAME Nicky Singer RRP $16.99 The world is not what it once was. Now, you must prove yourself worthy of existence at every turn. Mhairi has learnt the importance of living her own story but when she meets a boy with no voice at all she risks everything to take him to safety. This is an extraordinary story about survival. DUE 12TH SEPTEMBER In a world full of social and military tech, power struggles, dictatorships, surveillance, intrigue and the ever-present threat of treachery, Frey is sent on a Our Price potentially deadly mission. Impostors is $ the first book in a new quartet - a thrilling 99 return to the world of the Uglies series. 16 KILLER T I AM OUT WITH LANTERNS Robert Muchamore RRP $19.99 Emily Gale RRP $17.99 Year Ten begins with a jolt for Wren and Milo. Along with their friends, they tell a tale of friendship, family, wild crushes and bitter feuds. As their lives intertwine, images could bring them together, and tear them apart. Another fabulous story from the author of The Other Side of Summer. DUE 29TH AUGUST Killer T is a synthetic virus with a ninety per-cent mortality rate, and the terrorists who created it want a billion dollars before they’ll release a vaccine. Terrifying. Romantic. Huge in scope. Killer T is a story for our times. GRACE AND FURY THE GIRL WHO FELL: THE CHESS RAVEN CHRONICLES BOOK 1 Tracy Banghart RRP $16.99 Violet Grace RRP $19.99 Sisters Serina and Nomi face two very different fates: one in the palace, the other on an island prison. Serina has spent her whole life preparing to become a Grace but her sister has a dangerous secret, and one wrong move could cost both sisters everything. I am Chess Raven. Orphan, hacker, accidental Queen of the Fae. I am not the girl who fell, I’m the one who got back up… The Girl Who Fell is the first book in a thrilling fantasy series about a girl who learns to embrace her inner power. DUE 3RD SEPTEMBER THE TRAITOR’S GAME CATCHING TELLER CROW Jennifer A. Nielsen RRP $19.99 Ambelin Kwaymullina, Ezekiel Kwaymullina RRP $19.99 Kestra Dallisor’s kidnappers want her to retrieve the lost Olden Blade, the only object that can destroy the immortal king, but Kestra is not an obedient captive. As motives shift and secrets emerge, Kestra and Simon will have to decide what and who it is they’re fighting for. DUE 29TH AUGUST Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence, love and family. Catching Teller Crow is an up-to-the-minute tale that goes straight to the heart of Australia’s darkest history. I HAD SUCH FRIENDS THE FINDER Meg Gatland-Veness RRP $19.99 Kate Hendrick RRP $19.99 I Had Such Friends encourages young adults to see the gaps in our friends‘ silence and question the parts we play in the stories of others. A thought-provoking tale about love, pain and hidden issues in Australian schools. When Lindsay meets Elias the signs aren’t promising. She’s a grungy introvert who doesn’t want to talk Our Price to anyone. He’s a teen fashionista who can’t $ shut the hell up… 99 16