I just read these books for teen titles, and they were brilliant!
The Trap by John Smelcer
This made me cry a bit...its set in Alaska and is about this old man who is out checking his wolf traps, when he gets his foot caught in a trap. Meanwhile, his grandson is at home in the village growing more and more worried as his grandad fails to return, but he's reluctant to look for him in case he dents his grandad's pride. Its a really haunting tale, beautifully told, and it explains really well family relationships, the isolation of Alaska as well as the conflicts faced by native american people too. this could work for Int2 I think
Frozen in time by Ali Sparkes
This book looks like it should be awful, but the dialogue's great and it is genuinely funny! It is about a brother and sister who dicover that their great aunt and uncle were cryogenically frozen in a bunker in their back garden in the 50s. This book has intrigue (what happened to the kid's dad who froze them? why did he freeze them for so long?) , spies and a Librarian who has her eye on the 50s teenagers, and she has Cold War connections too. The way that the 50s teenagers are introduced to 2009 is well done too, as is the fact that the teenagers from 2009 grow to see some of the benefits that the 50s had.
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