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Cat Clarke

    This author, whose Zambian origins and upbringing in Edinburgh and Yorkshire have gifted her a distinct accent, now crafts compelling YA novels. Her previous non-fiction explored captivating subjects like cowboys, sharks, and pirates, hinting at a passion for adventurous and unusual narratives. Through her current work, she delves into the world of adolescence, exploring themes that resonate with younger readers. Her writing style is characterized by vibrant storytelling and an ability to immerse the reader in the narrative.

    Cat Clarke
    Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
    The De-Callen Chronicles
    Summer of the Dragons
    Spellboda
    Devon's Island
    The Scratch Daughters
    • The Scratch Daughters

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.5(690)Add rating

      “Sharp and exciting, always vivacious and sensory . . . All I want is more—more of these sweet vicious girls and their helplessly loving leader, changing themselves, one another and the world.” —Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review The Craft for Gen Z: The Scratch Daughters, indie bestselling author H. A. Clarke crafts a brilliant, award-nominated sequel to The Scapegracers: a raw and roiling tribute to queer lineage, to finding oneself, and to the deep love of chosen family. Sideways Pike is desperate. It turns out that Madeline Kline didn’t want to make out with her; infinitely worse, she was only flirting to get access to Sideways’ specter. Madeline has ripped the magical soul out of Sideways’ throat, and with it, everything that makes a witch feel whole. Madeline would know: the Chantry boys took hers, and she’s going to use Sideways’ specter to hunt them down and get it back. Sideways Pike, lesbian witch extraordinaire, isn’t going to let little things like a treacherous crush or a brutal family of creepy witch hunters stop her, even if it means tracking down Madeline without the Scapegracers—her best friends, her coven, the girls she’s come to love ferociously above all else. But Sideways and her trusty bike are in for a bumpy ride . . .

      The Scratch Daughters
    • Devon's Island

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.4(20)Add rating

      Other stories will take you to Mars. This one will take you inside the boardroom, the pub, and the bedroom with the people planning the mission. Devon's Island is neurodiverse, culturally diverse, gender-bendy, socio- politico-economic, drunken-arguments-in-the-pub science fiction novel set in the dystopian almost-present.

      Devon's Island
    • Since Trevor's mum died his dad can barely look at him without yelling. Home is awful, school is worse. People just let you down, and Trevor only talks to Mrs. Bingo-Wings, his mum's cat. But then he meets Midge, a peregrine falcon in danger, and finds out he has a gift that could change his life forever.

      Spellboda
    • Summer of the Dragons

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.4(18)Add rating

      'That's not a bird,' Mari said, disbelievingly. 'That's another dragon . . .'A year after she discovered a tiny dragon on the beach, life is getting back to normal for Mari Jones and Gweeb, when two unexpected events turn it upside down again.First comes the news that Mari's mum Rhian is expecting a baby, meaning that her boyfriend Gareth and Mari's best friend Dylan will be moving in with them on the farm. Even more incredibly, Gweeb's family have returned to lay their eggs in the same cave where Mari first found her secret dragon.With tourists flocking to the beach for the summer, Mari has her work cut out to keep the dragons hidden and safe, especially when disgraced scientist Dr Griff Griffiths turns up on the hunt for a story. And when Griff manages to find and steal Gweeb's precious egg, Mari must stage a daring rescue mission before it's too late . . .

      Summer of the Dragons
    • Two worlds exist at the same time but only one of these worlds knows this.Karl and Tom suddenly discover that although they live on Earth, they were sent there many years ago to keep them safe from those who wished them great harm. But they have been found and their uncle must now get them back, with the sister they never knew they had, to their own world.Adventures, good and bad, follow them as they travel back to Elemtum, meet their father and discover why they had to be sent away in the first place.Battles take place on Elemtum and Earth, people die, others live, until the boys and their family win the day.

      The De-Callen Chronicles
    • Mystery-lover Libby is excited but nervous when she's sent to live with her Aunt Agatha, headmistress of an extraordinary travelling school. But in her first term, in Paris, her aunt is arrested, accused of a daring jewel robbery. Can Libby and her new best friend Connie find the real thief? Illustrated by Becka Moor.

      Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
    • Jem Halliday is in Love with Her Best Friend.It doesn't matter that Kai is gay, or that he'll never look at her the same way she looks at him. Their friendship is all she needs. But when Kai is outed online by one of their classmates, he does the he commits suicide. Jem's world is shattered. All she has left of her best friend are twelve letters―one for each month of the year―he wrote her before he died. Kai's letters beg her not to investigate what happened, but Jem can't let it go. She needs to know who did this, and she'll stop at nothing to find the person responsible for Kai's death. One way or another, someone is going down. Someone is going to pay... "I haven't felt so much for a book since If I Stay by Gayle Forman."―Confessions of a Book Addict " Undone is a story that will stick with me for a long time."―Book Passion for Life

      Undone
    • In the near future, Earth is falling to a catastrophic alien giant beetle-like creatures emerge without warning from spatio-temporal rifts, wipe out resistant in a certain zone, then seal it behind a completely impenetrable barrier. Entire sections of the planet have already been lost forever. With conventional weaponry powerless, the USA authorize a program that will turn five teenagers into pure geniuses. Will the test subjects find a defense, though … or will they become out of control themselves?

      Akkad - Book 1
    • Four girls. One dead body. A whole lot of guilt. Alice King isn't expecting the holiday of a lifetime when she sets off with her classmates on a trip to the Scottish wilderness, but she's not exactly prepared for an experience beyond her darkest nightmares... Alice and her best friend Cass are stuck in a cabin with Polly, the social outcast, and Rae, the moody emo-girl. Then there's Tara - queen of mean. Powerful, beautiful and cruel, she likes nothing better than putting people down. Cass decides it's time to teach Tara a lesson she'll never forget. And so begins a series of events that will change the lives of these girls forever... A compelling story of guilty secrets, troubled friendship and burgeoning love.

      Torn