Jacqueline Wilson
Kiss

Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, eaten meals with each other's families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend ... and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'll end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone. But as they become teenagers, things begin to change. They go to different schools and Carl has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. Carl seems much less happy to be called Sylvie's boyfriend and in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids kissing her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all?

Geraldine McCaughrean
Gold Dust

There's a hole outside the shop. It's just mysteriously appeared overnight. And then suddenly there are holes all over town - even in the main street. The cars can't use the road, everyone has to walk around balancing on planks of wood, and the whole town is starting to crumble. It's started. The secret's out. People are coming from all over the country. Their hopes are high. The word on everyone's lips is - GOLD!

Charlie is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones on the forest floor ... and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, and her mobile doesn't work. A friendship with another pupil provides the key - is Jack more than he seems?