New titles for July

All shortlisted books for the Carnegie Medal are available in large print. Details of the winner can be found at www.cilip.org.uk/news-media/pages/news100624.aspx

CHAINS by Laurie Halse Anderson
Age range 11+

As the Revolutionary War rages in 18^th century America, Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves, sold to a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons. Having lost their mother, Isabel vows to protect her younger sister and keep hold of the one important thing in their lives – hope.

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman
Age range 9+

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, would be a completely normal boy if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts. For it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, a danger that has already killed Bod's family.

THE VANISHING OF KATHARINA LINDEN by Helen Grant
Age range 14+

On the day Katherina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the small German town where she lives. How could a ten year old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? Come what may, Pia is determined to find out what happened.

ROWAN THE STRANGE by Julie Hearn
Age range 12+

Rowan knows he is strange. But is he dangerous? He didn't mean to scare his sister. In his right mind, he wouldn't hurt a fly. But now he's been sent to a place where they say they can fix his not right mind. Beyond the bars on the window, England is at war. Behind them, Rowan's own battle is beginning.

THE ASK AND THE ANSWER by Patrick Ness
Age range 14+

Fleeing a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Separated from her, and imprisoned, Todd is forced to submit to the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside town? Where is Viola? And who are the mysterious Answer?

NATION by Terry Pratchett
Age range 11+

On the day the world ends, Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes, and only Mau; a strange trouserman girl and a parrot are left alive to pick up the pieces. Together they must forge a new Nation, but they soon discover that the old history isn't going to lie down and go away.

FEVER CRUMB by Philip Reeve
Age range 9+

London is days away from war, and a terrifying new enemy is on the attack – huge armoured fortresses that move across the wastelands. Buried in London's past however is a secret that may save it from destruction. And the key to unlocking that secret is an orphan called Fever Crumb.

REVOLVER by Marcus Sedgwick
Age range 12+

It's 1910. In a cabin north of the Arctic Circle, in a place that is murderously cold and desolate, Sig Andersson is alone. Except for the corpse of his father, frozen to death that morning when he fell through the ice on the lake. Soon however, a sinister stranger comes calling, and as his tale of gold lust unfolds, Sig's thoughts turn to his father's Colt revolver, hidden in the storeroom.