Louisa Reid

Poet

Lily turns sixteen with two very different sides to her life: school, where she is badly bullied, and home with her mum and dad, warm and comforting but with its own difficulties. After a particularly terrible bullying incident, Lily's dad determines to give his daughter the tools to fight back. Introducing her to boxing, he encourages Lily to find her own worth. It is both difficult and challenging but in confronting her own fears she finds a way through that illuminates her life and friendships. Meeting Rose, and seeing that there is another world out there, enables her to live her own life fully and gives her the knowledge that she is both beautiful and worth it.

Gloves Off

The Poet

Hepzibah and Rebecca are twins. One is beautiful, the other disfigured and disabled. Homeschooled by religious fundamentalists, they dream of a normal life. But when one twin tragically dies, the other must find a way to escape and create a more normal life. First person recount. Suggested level: secondary.

Black Heart Blue

Joe and Imogen seem like the perfect couple - they've been in a relationship for years and are the envy of their friends at school. But after accidentally becoming involved a tragic fatal accident, they become embroiled in a situation out of their control, and Joe and Imogen's relationship becomes slowly unravelled until the truth is out there for all to see ... Structured around a dramatic and tense court case, the reader becomes both judge and jury in a stunning and page-turning novel of uncovering secrets and lies - who can be believed?

Wrecked

When an anonymous student posts on a website about the sexual abuse she suffered, and the school fails to deal with the situation, Cassie and her friends know it is time to act. A powerful verse novel about speaking and standing up for what's right. Cassie goes to a prestigious academic school where girls have only just been admitted after decades of it being single-sex. When a female student from the school anonymously posts about the sexual abuse she has suffered and the school does not act properly, Cassie knows that she needs to take matters into her own hands. She and her friends prepare for battle - with a strike, an assembly, as well as outside school spending their weekends protesting to save the woodland from development. But will her activism only make things worse, or will she succeed in righting the wrongs that so many choose to ignore? And could there be a more personal reason for her behaviour? A powerful, timely verse novel about the need to act and stand up for what's right.

Activist

Hephzibah e Rebecca são irmãs gêmeas, mas muito diferentes. Enquanto Hephzi é linda e voluntariosa, Reb sofre da Síndrome de Treacher Collins — que deformou enormemente seu rosto — e é mais cuidadosa. Apesar de suas diferenças, as garotas são como quaisquer irmãs: implicam uma com a outra, mas se amam e se defendem. E também guardam um segredo terrível como só irmãos conseguem guardar. Um segredo que esconde o que acontece quando seu pai, um religioso fanático, tranca a porta de casa. No entanto, quando a ousada Hephzibah começa a vislumbrar a possibilidade de escapar da opressão em que vive, os segredos que rondam sua família cobram-lhe um preço alto: seu trágico fim. E só Rebecca, que esteve o tempo todo ao lado da irmã, sabe a verdadeira causa de sua morte... Hephzi sonhara escapar, mas falhara. Será que Rebecca poderia encontrar, finalmente, a liberdade?

Corações feridos

Corações Feridos

A tizenhat éves Audrey mindössze csak normális szeretne lenni. Megpróbál beilleszkedni. De mi van akkor, ha a hozzád legközelebb álló személy megfojt a szeretetével? Akkor mit lehet tenni?

A fájdalom helye

'A BRILLIANT TWIST' Sunday Express Lies Like Love is the haunting and heart-breaking new novel from Louisa Reid, critically acclaimed author of Black Heart Blue. LIES 'There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .' LIKE 'I think she's verging on psychosis . . . now she's lashing out.' LOVE 'She's got no one else to fight for her.' Sixteen year-old Audrey just wants to be normal. She's trying to fit in. But what happens when the person closest to you suffocates you with their love? What happens then? Praise for Louisa Reid: 'Absolutely wonderful' Guardian 'Emotive, sometimes shocking story' Sunday Times 'A moving, gripping story' Sun '[Lies Like Love] . . . chillingly unravels a dysfunctional relationship that threatens to destroy the love it feeds on. Reid evokes the uncertainty and joy of teenage romance with all its passion and pain and brilliantly controls the increasingly disturbing truth . . .' Daily Mail 'Heartbreaking . . . Demands to be read all at once, but will stay with you long after' Teri Terry, author of the Slated trilogy 'Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching . . . You will read it in one sitting then want to share the book with someone else' LoveReading 'We read this in one sitting.' Teen Now ***** 'The debut author of 2012 to watch' Film vs Book About the author: Louisa Reid is married with two young daughters and currently teaches English in a girls' school in Cambridge. She is originally from Cheshire, studied English at Oxford and has lived in London and Zurich. Her pupils are definitely not the inspiration for her characters in her novels but witnessing their passion for great fiction inspired her to write for young adults.

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