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ACTION & ADVENTURE

Life of Pi by Yann Martel One boy, one boat, one tiger… After the tragic sinking remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. An intense and intriguing read which plumbs the depths of emotion. A unique story which was recently made into a film, it will keep you curious until the end. of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat

Siege Series: Special Forces Cadets by Chris Ryan

A top-secret government programme needs a team of undercover military operators. They must have awesome levels of determination, endurance and fitness. They must also be able to think on their feet. The recruits undergo the most rigorous and testing selection process the modern military can devise. All recruits must be under sixteen. Mr Gormley says: “Exploding with tension, weapons, mud and snow, Siege had me gripped from the first page!”

Nation by Terry Pratchett

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He is also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick that can make fire. Terry Pratchett is a masterful author with many books and accolades under his belt. Being a standalone novel, Nation is quite different from his other works.