Gemma was raised in India but is sent back to England after she witnesses her mothers murder. Not only does she see her mother get killed, but the way in which she is killed is so strange and mystical that she is haunted by the images. She enrolls in an academy called Spence where the richest and most powerful families of England send their daughters to be raised. As if starting a new school isn’t hard enough, Gemma starts having visions that become increasingly graphic and powerful. Why is she having these visions? Who will become her friend? Will she ever solve her mothers murder? Read A Great and Terrible Beauty to find out. Grade 8+
Matt has been raised in a house by himself. The only other human being that he has seen is his nanny. He watches tv and knows that there are other people out there- but in his home all of the windows and doors are nailed shut. One day Matt sees children playing outside of his house. He breaks through a window, climbs a chair, and jumps out onto the broken glass of the window. The children carry him back to their house where a doctor looks at Matt’s wounds. The doctor sees that Matt has markings on the bottom of his foot- marking him as a clone. But clones are less than dogs, so how does Matt have intelligence? Who’s clone is he? And how will he survive in a world where clones are less than nothing? Read House of the Scorpion to find out. 