The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Mark Haddon
Blurb: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is 15 and has Aspergers Syndrome, he knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists/patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own but when he finds a neighbours dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.


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Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Title: Howl's Moving Castle
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Blurb: In the land of Ingary, where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined to make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which hovers on the nearby hills.

But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl who appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the hearts of young girls...

The first book in the Howl Series.

Adapted to a motion picture, by Studio Ghibli, and voiced by Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal and Emily Mortimer.


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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collings

Title: Catching Fire
Author: Suzanne Collins
Blurb: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

As the nation watches Katniss and Peeta, the stakes are higher than ever. One false move and the consequences will be imaginable.

This is the second book in the popular Hunger Games series, and is due to be made into a motion picture (release date is currently November 2013).

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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Title: Northern Lights
Author: Philip Pullman
Blurb: When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she her her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.

Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights...

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collings
Blurb: Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

First book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games Trilogy.

Adapted into a motion picture, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks.

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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Title: Peter Pan
Author: J.M. Barrie
Blurb: Do you believe in fairies? One night Peter Pan flies into the home of the Darling children, and so begins a magical adventure with Peter, the fairy Tinkerbell, the lovely Wendy, and the evil Captain Hook.

Adapted into various motion pictures.

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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Author: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Blurb: Nick's just seen the girl who dumped him walk in with a new guy. What else can he do but ask the strange girl next to him to be his girlfriend for the next five minutes?

Norah would do anything to avoid conversation with not not-friend girl who dumped Nick ... and to get over the Evil Ex whom Norah never really totally dumped. What else can she do but answer Nick's question by making out with him?

With one electric, unexpected kiss, the five-minute couple of Nick and Norah set off on an uncharted adventure called the "first date" that will turn into an infinite night of falling in and out (and in and out, and maybe in and maybe out) of love. Theirs is a first date of music, laughter, heartache, confusion, passion, taxi driver wisdom, and a jacket named Salvatore. And of course a killer soundtrack.

As Nick and Norah wander through the middle-of-the-night mystic maze of Manhattan, they share the kind of night you want to never end, where every minute counts and every moment flickers between love and disaster.

Adapted into a motion picture starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings.

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Being Elizabeth Bennet by Emma Campbell Webster

Title: Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
Author: Emma Campbell Webster
Blurb: Elizabeth Bennet is the wittiest and most attractive heroine in English literature. And in Being Elizabeth Bennet, you have the opportunity to become her.

You will be faced with delicate challenges and dangerous choices. Whether you accept Mr Darcy the first time he professes his attachment, decide to elop with Mr Wickham or succeed in avoiding a murderous Lady Catherine de Bourgh, this is your chance to rewrite Jane Austen.

However, choose with caution: Being Elizabeth Bennet is packed with character and plot twists that may thwart your chances of happy union with Pemberley's most eligible bachelor. You must complete five stages - and successfully negotiate your way through Austen's five other novels - before you can choose to accept Mr Darcy. But if your fate does not appeal, simply return to page one and create another new Jane Austen adventure.

Based on the popular books of Jane Austen.

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