Alice Marchand Book order (chronological)

*Shortlisted for the Branford Boase award 2016* Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in. Most of all, he wants the beautiful Sadie Blood. Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider, Kane, Adam will ride the Blackwater Trail in a brutal race that will test them all, body and soul. Only the strongest will survive. The prize? A one-way ticket to Sky-Base and unimaginable luxury. And for a chance at this new life, Adam will risk everything . . .

La vie de Gabry est calme et sereine dans son petit village au bord de la mer. Mais de l'autre côté de la Barrière, le danger est là. Les Mudos reviennent de la mort, en quête de chair humaine. Pourtant, un soir, la tentation est trop forte, Gabry et ses amis franchissent la Barrière... Catcher, qu'elle aime, a-t-il été infecté ? Et d'où vient Elias, l'étranger ? Gabry peut-elle croire en l'avenir ? Pas avant d'avoir affronté le passé de sa mère, Mary, dans la Forêt...

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future - between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?

Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They’ve always played together, eaten with each other’s families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they’d end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone — and the glass hut where it’s all created, at the bottom of Carl’s garden.But as they become teenagers, things are starting to change. They each have different friends. Sylvie would still rather spend all her time with Carl. But Carl has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. And he seems much less happy to be called Sylvie’s boyfriend. And in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids having to kiss her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all? A moving, compelling and delicately handled treatment of sexuality from the Children’s Laureate.

- Julie a le moral à zéro. Rob l'a quittée pour Emma et sa mère n'arrête pas de lui hurler dessus ! Les choses vont mal. Très mal !- Laura nage dans le bonheur. Elle ne pense qu'à Daniel, Daniel, Daniel... Et pourtant, sa mère lui cause bien du souci !- John s'intéresse beaucoup à Sumitha... Mais un nouveau prof de sciences arrive au collège et Sumitha le trouve trop craquant !- Emma a découvert sa voie :elle veut être actrice ! Coûte que coûte !

Well, what could be worse than having a pregnant mother (and by Melvyn) like Laura? And they're not even married! Perhaps having a wannabe chef as a father and a mini-skirt clad mother who writes about you in the local paper, like Chelsea? What about Jemma's parents, who tell her she's too young to have a boyfriend - in front of her boyfriend? Or Sumitha's, who tell her boyfriend how suitable he is? And then there's Jon's mother, who seems to be getting on just a bit too well with a fellow interior design student