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British Scene for Teens Good reads about teens from across the pond, including the contemporary scene, some spies, and a bit of olde England.	Print this list  Email this list Return to Book Lists
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Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. 194 p. c2004 Teen Fiction Book ROSOFF   Bennett, Sophia Sequins Secrets and Silver Linings Three fourteen-year-old friends with very different interests befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London. 281 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Day, Susie My Invisible Boyfriend In a British alternative high school, 15-year-old Heidi stands out in many ways, but when she invents a boyfriend--complete with online profile--her friends turn to him for advice and she must decide how far she is willing to go to find acceptance. 275 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Downham, Jenny Before I Die A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies. 326 p. 2007 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Higson, Charles SilverFin: a James Bond Adventure This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure. 335 p. 2005 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Hooper, Mary Fallen Grace In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses. 309 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Hornby, Nick Slam At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. 309 p. 2007 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Jensen, Melissa Falling in Love with English Boys Stranded in London for the summer by a relationship gone bad, Catherine blogs her misery while reading the diary of a nineteenth-century girl whose life strangely parallels her own. 293 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Johnson, Maureen The Name of the Star Louisiana teen Rory is spending a year at a London boarding school when she becomes the prime witness in a case involving a Jack the Ripper copycat. In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory learns the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discovers her own shocking abilities. 372 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Lee, Y. S. A Spy in the House Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, 17-year-old orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called the Agency. 335 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Limb, Sue Girl Going On 17 Pants On Fire A series of lies and unfortunate circumstances, including her break-up with Fred, her school detention, and her mother's new romance, mean Jess' 17th year is turing out to be a bit tumultuous. 233 p. 2006 Teen Fiction Book   MacLean, Sarah The Season Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford doesn't fit into the world of Regency London. Somehow between ball gown fittings, dances, and dinner parties, Alex and her friends manage to get entangled in her biggest scrape yet. 345 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Moran, Katy (Katy Jane) Bloodline Rising Cai, a thief in seventh-century Constantinople, finds himself held captive on a trading ship bound for Britain -- the home his father, a ruthless barbarian assassin, fled long ago -- where he discovers that his Anglish captors know more about the secrets of his family than he does. 328 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Pullman, Philip The Ruby in the Smoke In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. 230 p. 1987 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Rennison, Louise Withering Tights Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only. 274 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Rinaldi, Ann The Redheaded Princess In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558. 214 p. 2008 Teen Fiction Book   Sedgwick, Marcus White Crow Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history. 234 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Slade, Arthur G. The Hunchback Assignments In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild. 278 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available   Smith, Jennifer E. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight If she'd been four minutes earlier, Hadley would have made her flight to London for her father's wedding and never have met Oliver and contemplated the possibility of love at first sight. Now in London, she has to survive being a bridesmaid, contend with her feelings about her father's new life, and find Oliver before she returns home. 236 p. 2012 Teen Fiction Book   Valentine, Jenny Me the Missing and the Dead When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance. 201 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Wooding, Chris Malice Everyone's heard the rumors. Call on Tall Jake and he'll take you to Malice, a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. A place most kids never leave. Seth and Kady think it's all a silly myth. But then their friend disappears. Sequel: Havoc. 377 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book  Print this list  Email this list Return to Book Lists