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|author= Jonathan StroudRachel Greenlaw|title= The Outlaws Scarlett Compass and BrowneBlade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, rejecting survives on luring ships into the draconian conformity rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Surviving Towns seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Faith Houses any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to wander end the wildlands between wrecking, they capture the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks island's leader and shooting other outlaws Mira's father. Desperate to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownesave him from death, Mira makes a dark boy bargain with dark powers a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a darker pastfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downonly nine days to unearth what might save her father, they plan to flee as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the mythical Free Isles heart of the London Lagoon. Togethersmuggler's territory, they Mira must brave man-eating wildlife, be determined to stop at nothing to save the cannibalistic Tainted future of her home and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14063948150008664730

|author=Mercedes HelnweinHarry Allen|title=SlingshotChildren of the Sun|rating=35

|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As Ra Eun Seo lives in a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, North Korean town and she is used to not being a priority in people's livestalented singer. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence Life is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo hard and food is a ghostalkerdifficult to come by, using Zimbabwean magic (so Seo and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister friends Nari and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. SoonMin go foraging every evening, Ropa is pulled into the search looking for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library tree bark and realise that edible grasses to supplement the world meagre rations of magic is far bigger rice and more dangerous than she ever could've imaginedkimchi at home. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 15290394521805140493

|author=Kristen O'NealAlexia Casale|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has It's hard enough to come navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to terms navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with the fact that she may be after collapsing on stage in constant pain for the rest middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' But she comes back fighting, an online support group where she talks desperate to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles avoid the pity stares, and help each other out, while also providing an escape desperate to get back to just joke and mess arounda life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn Meanwhile there't respond to the chat for s a whilenew (cute!) boy in school, Priya becomes concerned. She decides her music A Level performance piece to try to steal her parents' car sort out, and drive just the day to Brigid's house day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to check up on throw at herto navigate. But what So even though she doesncan't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to dance anymore, might she be the girl she has been talking able to online for the past few months.sing her way through instead?|isbn=16836923490571373801

|author=Goldy MoldavskySimon Fox|title=The Last GirlDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=teensConfident Readers|summary= Rachel Chavez Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – force, and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not richthen suddenly rings Archie, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiademanding he fetch something from a secret place, and most of all, she spends join him on the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortrun. She struggles to find anyone They get together, but barely begin to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon smell the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off whiff of Southern trains when the best prank in true horror movie stylefather is arrested, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in leaving Archie on the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this schoollate express to Brighton, things start to go wrong; toting a masked figure keeps showing up tin his father was determined to the prankskeep away from his colleagues, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes bearer of a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too latewhole heap of questions.|isbn=07555015271839944420

|isbnauthor=1406395404Lex Croucher|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=2020 has been Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementmost delightful way. Lots of our routines In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom'who needs sleep? s only female knight) - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilysomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Most peopleAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, from children to adults will have creating the odd bad night but worrying about your lack subterfuge of sleep is only likely to make it worsefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. And there's also the fact that for far too longBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, lack of sleep has been lauded as will they find a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up earlyway in which they can both truly be themselves, working late has been praised and the ability or are they destined to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793

|author=Rob WintersNick Brooks|title=His Name Was WrenPromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, near three boys find themselves called into the village of Hurstwickpolice station as suspects. It came down hardEach, taking the spire of the village church with itseemingly, destroying has a stone shackgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and leaving a wide trail through each could have been there at the wood, but no trace time of what it actually washis murder. German secret weapon was the local gossipBut who killed him, but there should have been an explosion and a craterwhy, and there were neither if any of those things.the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1035003155

|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi1919635017|title=YolkA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Jayne Baek Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a fashion student thatseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I's barely getting byll answer the first one: for his grandmother.. She drinks. She smokes}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4. She makes bad decisions 5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the men she sleeps withfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She As they's an re allfired up, straining at the leash only a single-round messy character; sex school can form, the talk in class and that's her charmout often turns to sex. June Which is confusing for Ant, on the other handas he doesn't know what his score is, is a complete contrast to Jaynewhere his achievements in that regard lie. She He's had a typical older sister: she's smartcasual relationship, thinks she knows it alla secret one, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out sheladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's sickset in stone, and Jayne is the only person she he can turn to't be sure. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they And that'll go to save each others mostly because of who he's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn= 03490036961529509491

|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli1800901232|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. He has a close group Kicked out of friendsmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a loving familypleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's gayat uni. Only Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one person knows thissuch item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and thatis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's Blue – allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one daywell, these emails fall into the wrong handswhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and everything Simon knows is turned upside downpointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=014135609X1800901011

|author=Anna CareyAnn Sei Lin|title=This is Not the Jess ShowRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is Kurara has spent her entire life as a normal 90's teenage girlservant on the Midori, just trying to navigate a massive dining hall floating in the usual stresses sky where soldiers of school, the Empire come to drink and boysmake merry between their conquests. However, and parent troubles. But strange things seem when a man named Himura arrives to be happening in tell her small townthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with an apple on ithim, to leave the life of dreary servitude that slips out of her friend's bagis all she has known. Well, but that her friends just soon Kurara won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voiceshave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and her sister (who she is very ill) seems forced to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesflee out into the world. Is there something going on beneath She joins Himura aboard the surface Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Jess' life?adventure awaits her…|isbn=16836919701406399590

|isbnauthor=1712435728Marcus Sedgwick|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherWrath

|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahMeet Fitz, he's a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks over, and he'll come back should be free to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: do what he's been there for a yearwants, on the same ward to go where his brother died he wants and now, with his hair all shorn offwhom he wants, but he's going home cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his dead brother's clothes. He wants it when he talks to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherbest friend, ForbesCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, says that but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that heenigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitiswhen Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Good luck with that one, Alex.|isbn=1800900899

|author=Alice OsemanTori Bovalino|title=SolitaireThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary= Victoria Spring Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the worlddeliver herself. Nothing What makes it worse is interestingthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so sheThe boarding school's not headmaster, and a complete lonerman Tess hates. She hates As a lot petty act of things revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- including herself. But suddenlyit notes on each of the books, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout scribbled with the schoolugliest insults she can think of. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in ToriThey's lifere never meant to reach him, of course. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedHer plan is to get her anger out like this, but suddenly she isand then take them all off before delivering them. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind No harm done… Or it? Why does it all seem to would be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isnif someone hadn't bored anymoredelivered them for her.|isbn=97800075592201789098130

|author=Alice OsemanPhilip Reeve|title=LovelessUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Georgia In a word, rich. There is a teenager who's embarking on her first year certainly an abundance of university and is riches in this story set on a desperate struggle to figure herself outpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. She's always been in love with love. With the idea There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of love, the idea of falling madly Dark family that has to keep watch for someone magical islands and finding blisstheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But The current Darks are the reality for her Watcher, Andrewe, who has always been different. Sheto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someonefoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the opportunity presents itself in any kind world of realprotecting their island, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by like itor not. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412X1788452372

|author=Arvin AhmadiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=How It All Blew UpJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a muslimsummer, and gayin the far NE of the Scottish islands. He struggles with his identityHere be Vikings, unable that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to face telling his parents who he really be automating the lantern, which is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himspecialist thing, threatening while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayhunt the elusive Greenland shark...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his familyAnd Julia, where they all discover more about himwell, she will be homesick and who he really is, and who he really wants to bealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=14714099291510107789

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedJonathan Stroud|title=The Black KidsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Scarlett McCain is set against an outlaw, rejecting the backdrop draconian conformity of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a reaction dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the absolution mythical Free Isles of four police officers for beating a black the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Rodney King, nearly the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to death. Told from reach the perspective of Ashley BennettFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters rest of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.Britain?|isbn=14711881911406394815

|author=Suzanne CollinsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow a man with a "real" family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This she is his chance used to prove himself to the world and secure his place not being a priority in the Capitol for goodpeople's lives. But when he is assigned she defends a tribute random boy in her class with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and slingshot, her simple existence is changed for him) are gonegood. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commencesolitude, Lucy Gray fights for her life now has a boy in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting it that she never asked for his life too: Wade Scholfield. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179152905818X

|author=James PattersonT L Huchu|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the same street corner, every day, dead of Edinburgh for years. She is waiting for her parents to come and get hertheir living relatives. They left her there when Ever since she was just tinydropped out of school, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and heraging grandmother. However, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingss an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and can fly! Since she was abandoned shetargeting the city's been living with a group of other children. Soon, all with interesting characteristics Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of their own his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and together they've made their own family. But now realise that the city world of magic is seemingly even far bigger and more troubled dangerous than usual, thereshe ever could's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where ve imagined. Will she find the missing children live, and then one day Hawk comes home bring an end to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been takenthis evil, and can Hawk rescue them before or will it's claim her too late?|isbn=15291200041529039452

|author= Samira AhmedKristen O'Neal|title= Mad, Bad Lycanthropy and Dangerous to KnowOther Chronic Illnesses|rating= 3.5

|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''In the end, we all become storiesOof Ouch My Bones'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like , an online support group where she talks to a dream for most peoplebunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax while also providing an escape to just joke and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagoaround. On a chance encounter with a descendant When Brigid—one of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him her closest friends—doesn't respond to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumaschat for a while, Eugene Delacroix Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and Lord Byrondrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. As But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman basement – and why it was one for that should never have werewolf to be the girl she has been forgottentalking to online for the past few months.|isbn=03490035561683692349

|author=Angela MackGoldy Moldavsky|title=I Am UnworthyThe Last Girl|rating=45|genre=Teensteens|summary= Isabel Rachel Chavez is determined the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymorebelong. She can escape the hurt's not rich, the fear, and the person she became. Josh is determined has no ties to keep goingsome royal family in Serbia, even through the rageand most of all, she spends the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H}}{{Frontpage|author=Non Pratt|title=Every Little Piece majority of My Heart|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence spare time watching horror movies as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end source of GCSEs just months awaycomfort. But She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day, on January 1st, she juststumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No A secret society with one heard from her sinceaim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. A once active social profile left desertedRachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. SoBut as the pranks escalate, when and Rachel finally feels like she has found her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterplace in this school, she expects it things start to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerpranks, and then another layer people begin to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and get hurt. When the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcelcompetition then takes a deadly turn, a new layer of the story and of Freya Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can whatbefore it's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?too late.|isbn=14063669430755501527