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{{Frontpage|classauthor=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-"wikitable" cellpaddingcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary="15"''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

<!-- Faulks 7/3 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B079RJFN42Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.jpg|link=http://wwwBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The SeerDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with 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 family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's Curse by J J Faulks]]==territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFrontpage|Confident Readers]]author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the SunAlthough ''The Seer's Curse'' |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is billed as a pre-teen noveltalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, I would say that it would appeal so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to a wide audience interested in fantasy supplement the meagre rations of rice and mythology, as well as just a good talekimchi at home. [[PAGE TITLE|Full Review]]isbn=1805140493}}<!-- Watscon -->{{Frontpage|-author=Alexia Casale| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5[[image:Watson_Piecing.jpg|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:5starchanging disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jade lives in a rough area of Portland But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Oregon. But she goes and desperate to get back to a very posh school on scholarship.And, life that's as normal as a scholarship girl, Jade knows she must grab every opportunity the school offerscan possibly manage. Her mother, Meanwhile there's a care workernew (cute!) boy in school, won't be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice creamher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, let alone college. But why do and just the day to day traumas of all the opportunities the school offers Jade seem so, well, ''patronising''? Jade doesn't feel like a charity casechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. She doesn So even though she can't feel broken. Her mum is a good mum. It's infuriating. But, when the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarship, how can dance anymore, might she say nobe able to sing her way through instead? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson|Full Review]]isbn=0571373801}}<!-- Barnard -->{{Frontpage|-author=Simon Fox| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Deadlock[[image:Barnard_Perfect.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[GoodbyeLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Perfect by Sara Barnard]]=== [[image:4and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Edie McKinley isn't They get together, but barely begin to smell the world's greatest student. And she has a history whiff of rebellious behaviour. But she has most of that under control nowSouthern trains when the father is arrested, with leaving Archie on the help of her adoptive familylate express to Brighton, her lovely boyfriend and her best friend Bonnie, who is toting a straight A student with a bright future ahead. That istin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, until Edie wakes up one morning to find and the police at her doorbearer of a whole heap of questions. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriend, Jack. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack, even with Edie |isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Edie is about to find out why - Jack is none other than Mr Cohn, a music teacher at school. [[Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|-genre=Teens| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_WrenWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884933/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Every year on St Stephens Daysomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers or are Judges - they destined to live a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an Augur - their sworn enemy - the game would be up.''lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793''The Wren Hunt'' is set in a contemporary Ireland where the ancient druidic traditions are still in play. The Judges have dominated }}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the Augurs by buying up principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the land containing the sources of Augur powerpolice station as suspects. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting and are determined to win it back. To this end Each, seemingly, Wren has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been chosen to infiltrate there at the house time of the prominent Judge, Cassa Harkness, to find the information they needhis murder. [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Benway -->But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|-isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1919635017[[image:Benway_Far.jpg|left|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/refA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=nosim?tagKitt Townsend|rating=thebookbag-21]]4.5|genre=Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series 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'll answer the first one: for his grandmother.5star.jpg|link=Category:{.}}{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensFrontpage|Teens]]author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for BoysHaving just given up her new-born baby for adoption|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, 16-year-old Grace and is desperate surprised to look for the find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one person who could truly understand how she feels. The birth mother that gave her up for adoption when she was a baby. What Grace doesn't expectof four with both his best buddy from the football team, is and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to discover that she has siblings. A confidentprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, loudstraining at the leash only a single-mouthed younger sistersex school can form, Mayathe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, adopted by a wealthy family living just twenty minutes away. And Joaquinas he doesn't know what his score is, their stoic older brother, hardened by seventeen years where his achievements in and out of foster carethat regard lie. [[Far from He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the Tree ladder headed by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!-- Miranda -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miranda_Fragments'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=[[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda]]===5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the only boy rural village where she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost lived with her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since Jessa's exfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-boyfriend, Caleb, died but she still cannot find dressed man and woman came to the strength village to move on with her life. So when Caleb's mother asks Jessa offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to clean out his room, things go from bad be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to worseHanoi. [[Fragments of Only, Hanh and the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]] <!-- Shaw -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Shaw_Outwalkersother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory.jpg|left|link=https You know those jeans you really wanted://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag The ones with the artfully-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]]  | style="verticalplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]===workers made them. [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake is determined to escape from his Home Academy and to find a new home with his dog, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge is going to be getting out and over the wall but, when he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able to track everyone in the country via the 'hub chip' in their neck and in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trail. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, he is permitted to join their gang and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards the heavily guarded border with Scotland.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]] <!-- Khan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"| [[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering to the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating to being a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells the story of Muzna, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask her out despite interest from several other girls at school. However, her delight wavers when she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western culture. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]] <!-- Ahmed -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]] <!-- Holland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]] <!-- Zurcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brown, but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]] <!-- Ingemundsen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the book is about. It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]] <!-- Norris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Dawson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]] |} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonPatrice Lawrence|title=Sunflowers in FebruaryNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on Brave. Charlene, the side 'heroine' of the roadthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, she knows immediately that something is wrongcharacters and readers both. Then Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she sees 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesnson Blake's old room while he't even begin to describe its at uni. A disembodied ghostSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating and the horrid aftermath creation of one such item is part of her own deaththe plot here, as her friends Charlene is a wonder knitter, and family struggle to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed is making something full of love for her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despair, until one night younger sister – a younger sister she finally manages to make her presence known. She's always had a strong bond allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her brother Ben - belligerence with a twin thing. Now that bond allows him store detective, and then force people to see give her two days off school, when no-one else canshe shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, and gives her the chance what exactly happens is not for me to return say, only to the living worldremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerAnn Sei Lin|title= RenegadesRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary= ''So long Kurara has spent her entire life as there are heroes a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in this worldthe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, there's hope when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that tomorrow might be better''Once she is a Crafter like him, someone with the minority in power to form paper into whatever she desires – a world of chaos and disorderpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the Renegades fought for freedom and justicelife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Victorious Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in driving their opponentsthe matter, because the leaderless Anarchists undergroundMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the lawmakers Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and leaders a whole world of the futureadventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, governing a new peaceful young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and prosperous societywith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They are the heroes were half of society; a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the role models young children look up to, enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the officers people look to for justice and strengthearth. All except Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the fraction world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of Anarchists that hide in ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the darknesstruth? Well, plotting and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from themnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldTori Bovalino|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary=In Working all summer in her boarding school''Ballad s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a Mad Girl'hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of Hannah Holtrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, a local girl who disappeared twentyTess sticks post-three years agoit notes on each of the books, after becoming convinced scribbled with the ugliest insults she has encountered Hannahcan think of. They's ghostre never meant to reach him, of course. The more she investigates, the more she Her plan is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to get her own Mother's deathanger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, a former classmate of Hannahif someone hadn's who died in a strange accident two years agot delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to 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 foundling 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 world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Vasconcelos Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, 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 summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving 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 dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Alison Entrekin (translator)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?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=My Sweet Orange TreeSlingshot

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just that sometimes, Zeze, you're too naughtyGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – he's As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a young tyke, and everyone in his large, half-Indian "real" family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks she is used to not being a priority in the neighbourhood – knows hepeople's skilled at being up to no good, that perhaps he was born with lives. But when she defends a little of the devil random boy in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when he's only fiveher class with her slingshot, the precocious brat her simple existence is forced to face something that might be the changing of him, once and changed for all – schoolgood. This No longer can she spend her time of change is also featuring a move of homewriting novels in solitude, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular tree, which almost works as for her life now has a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonT L Huchu|title= Star by StarThe Library of the Dead|rating= 34.5

|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, Stella is sent she's been using it to live with support not only herself, but her younger sister and her estranged aunt who runs a boarding houseaging grandmother. This coincides with a time However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of great change for Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the country as women are allowed to vote search for a missing boy at the first timerequest of his dead mother. Stella She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is determined far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to follow come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her motherlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s footsteps , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help make historyeach other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and whilst her age denies mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the ability chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to vote herself, she goes steal her parents' car and drive to great lengths Brigid's house to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend of check up on her mother . But what she doesn't expect to find there is able a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to cast hersbe the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1683692349