Bailiúchán: Young Adult Fiction

Frankie Parsons is 12, going on old man. An apparently sensible boy, he carries a drumbeat of worrying questions that steadily gain volume in his head. Only Ma takes his catalogue of persistent anxieties seriously, but it is Ma herself who is the cause of the most worrying question of all.

In 3010, humanity lives in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the planet will be habitable again. Now a hundred juvenile delinquents are sent on a high-stakes mission to re-colonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive...

In a far away fantasy land, Lady Alphina is accused of plotting to murder the beautiful prophetess known as the Saint. With no way to fight these false accusations, she finds her engagement cancelled and on a one-way trip to the guillotine. But with her death, time rewinds and she reawakens a few...

A resentful member of a high school Quiz Bowl team with an unrequited crush. An extraordinary 'snow day' that changes two lives forever. A Valentine's Day in the life of Every Day's protagonist "A." 19 Love Songs was born from Levithan's tradition of writing a story for his friends each Valentin...

Dublin 1913. Low-paid workers, under the leadership of Big Jim Larkin, organised themselves into unions to insist on better conditions. The business world retaliated by locking them out of their jobs without pay - how long could they hold out?

15-year-old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St Lucian father and a drug-addicted English mother. Growing up in dire poverty in Hackney, East London, his life is shaped by casual violence, gang initiation, drug-dealing and knife crime. When Donny's bored, rich, white girlfriend Zoe i...