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Terrified of being targeted by bullies for being overweight, Lionel tries to go through grade 8 attracting as little notice as possible.

A coming of age story taking place in Montreal.

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996.

Huckleberry Finn meets The Catcher in the Rye meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this outlandish debut novel. Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary.

A visceral story of friendship, music, and bloody revenge

A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets

Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads.

Sixteen-year-old Tamera lives in La Cresta, a rural fishing community on a Caribbean island.

Meet Frederick Madrigal: the seventh son of a struggling woman on welfare who already had three sets of male twins spaced two years apart.

Rebellion is Portuguese literary celebrity Cristina Carvalho's international debut.

This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided.

Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes.

Raised in a polygamous community, Jon starts to question the rules of his faith. After he is caught kissing a girl, he is forced to flee his town and the only life he knows.

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny.