Children's / Teenage fiction: Thrillers

Where has Faith's dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in the cliff and Faith watches anxiously as it gets bigger and bigger each day. Her brother is obsessed with the sea ghosts he claims live in the basement, and when...

Even when you can't believe what you're seeing, you'd better get ready to run for your life, because the Greys have come to town. Billy's mum isn't like other mums. He calls her Sylvie, they move house every few months and she spends all their time together teaching him The Rules of Survival - ho...

London-born Abel has landed the role of a lifetime for an upcoming blockbuster. On the face of it he's Hollywood's latest teen star, but below the surface he's an undercover journalist on a mission to expose the 'squeaky clean' entertainment industry and the part they played in his brother's 'acc...

A year ago, beloved cheerleader Stella Blackthorn vanished without a trace. Devastated, her younger sister, Iris, launched her own investigation, but all she managed to do was scare off the police's only lead and earn a stern warning: once she turns eighteen, more meddling means prison-level cons...

Mum and Dad have left - gone to Mars, and they're never coming back - freedom at last! But this isn't one of Dad's weird jokes; it's real. It's up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what's going on, and launch a rescue. Can they handle vampire squids, a susp...

Part of the 'Young Bond' series. As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lagrimas Negras, its ruler is watching and waiting. On the mainland, in the quiet town of Tres Hermanas, ex-flying ace Jack Stone leaves his son and daughter in the company of James Bond. But a gang of thieves lie in ...

Cristian has lived his entire life in the grip of a repressive dictatorship. The country is governed by fear. When the secret police blackmail him, Cristian has an impossible choice. Save the life of his sick grandfather by informing on his family, or risk his life - and all of theirs - by resist...

Since Darren Devlin and Marek Masters joined forces, there has only been one thing on their minds - taking down XSP, the secret organisation that transformed them into genetically-modified superhumans. Even with 21% monster Darren's incredible strength, and 19% alien Marek's super intelligence, X...

A powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. Ebo: alone. His sister left months ago. Now his brother has disappeared too, and Ebo knows it can only be to make the hazardous journey to Eu...

Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines be...