A list of the best YA books ever, from Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses to Melvin Burgess' Junk

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The 10 greatest YA books ever written

Kill All Enemies

A writer of the highest quality with exceptional powers of insight

(Of Junk) Brilliantly and sensitively written, it encompasses the raw, savage and ecstatic world of the adolescent mind . . . a superbly crafted and important book

Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature. In 1997, his controversial bestseller Junk won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Melvin lives in Hebden Bridge with his partner.

Everyone says fourteen-year-old BILLIE is nothing but trouble. A fighter. A danger to her family and friends. 
But her care worker sees someone different. 
 
Her classmate ROB is big, strong; he can take care of himself and his brother. 
But his violent stepdad sees someone to humiliate. 
 
And CHRIS is struggling at school; he just doesn't want to be there. 
But his dad sees a useless no-hoper. 
 
Billie, Rob and Chris each have a story to tell. But there are two sides to every story, and the question is . . . who do you believe?

Melvin Burgess

Cult horror brand Hammer continues its multi-media reboot with this grizzly, fast-paced novella... a great addition to this entertaining canon.

When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. 
 
Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. 
 
Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied – at any cost ...

Melvin Burgess

Praise for Hunger

Cult horror brand Hammer continues its multi-media reboot with this grizzly, fast-paced novella... a great addition to this entertaining canon.

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