Энн Кессиди

It's been five years since Rose's mother and Josh's father disappeared while on a dinner date. Police inquiries have gone nowhere and the case, it seems, is closed: Rose and Josh have been told that the police officially believe their parents are dead. But they still hold out hope that they are alive-particularly since their discovery of several cryptic notebooks that detail police...

Rose and Joshua first met when Joshua and his dad came to live with Rose and her mum. Then their world turns upside down when their mother and father go out for dinner one evening and never return. With police inquiries going nowhere, Rose is dispatched to live with her chilly, unfriendly grandmother and Joshua is sent to live with his uncle. Then Joshua comes to London to study and Rose is witnes...

A long hot summer and a deadly dilemma Jaz and Jack have a secret they're hiding from Bobby—they have fallen in love, or so Jaz likes to believe. But this secret fades into insignificance when Jack finds a bag full of money abandoned in a house near to his. The house had been raided by the local mafia, and someone had left behind the loot. It's a massive amount of money and Jack takes it without t...

As Chloe Cozens mourns the death of her mother, Lesley, teenage 'delinquent' Nicky Nelson experiences quite a different emotion towards her, his social worker, the one person he thought he could rely on when everyone else had let him down. Lesley Cozens wrote Nicky a letter before she died, the contents of which the reader does not know until much later in the novel, but the letter trigg...

Elise has a crush. She's been infatuated with her best friend, Carl, for as long as she can remember. When he starts dating an American girl who's just arrived at their school, Elise thinks it will just be a short fling. When she realizes it's not, she decides she needs to take matters into her own hands.

Eight years ago, Kim Hockney's little sister Judy disappeared. The family have never been able to stop hoping that she's still alive. Kim can never forget that she let Judy run off that afternoon, but now someone thinks they've found her.

When she was ten, Alice did something so wicked that the whole world would hate her if they knew. Now she's sixteen, free at last, with a new identity and a new life. But branded as a killer, forced to live a lie, how long can she keep the past at bay? Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize.

За день до назначенной даты сноса дома на Принсесс-стрит Мэнди Кристал стояла у забора из проволочной сетки и внимательно разглядывала строение. Она не впервые смотрела в окна этого мрачного дома. Пять лет назад ей пришлось прийти сюда: тогда пропали ее подруги – двенадцатилетние Петра и Тина. Их называли девочками-мотыльками. Они, словно завороженные, были притянуты к этому заброшенному особняку,...