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|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallRachel Greenlaw|title= The Mermaid, the Witch Compass and the SeaBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= On ''I can hear the song of the pirate ship Dovesea. The call of the deep, Flora the girl has assumed answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the identity wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Florian the man in an attempt seven who swim out to fit in with survey the crewruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Life is hard as But when the Council Watch lays a piratetrap to end the wrecking, trust they capture the island's leader and empathy are the first things Mira's father. Desperate to be discardedsave him from death, but anything has Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to be better than starving on guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the streetssea. MeanwhileWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards watched streets of foreign islands to the Doveheart of the smuggler's territory, headed off Mira must be determined to be married stop at nothing to a military man save the future of her home and the ones she's never met on some far-flung colony holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the Nipran EmpireSun|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Neither of them expects Life is hard and food is difficult to be thrown together come by fate, never mind fall in love…so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=15362043151805140493
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|author=Holly JacksonAlexia Casale|title=A Good GirlSing if you Can's Guide to Murdert Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=5 It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years ago, the tiny town of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a tracelife-changing disability too, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyonebut that's number 1 suspect – especially what Ven is dealing with after Sal sent collapsing on stage in the middle of a 'confession' text dance performance that was going to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after change her disappearancelife. His guilt was sealed and But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the case was closedpity stares, so the town and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined desperate to get back to prove a life that Sal was innocent's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, with the help of his brother Ravi. What started her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins just the day to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee day traumas of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years agothe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But the closer So even though she getscan't dance anymore, the more dangerous it becomes.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=14052931870571373801
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|author=Kat DunnSimon Fox|title=Dangerous RemedyDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
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|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's ParisWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, 1794it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. The Revolution is five years old In this story, Gwen and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the RevolutionariesArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, trying much to maintain their control by whatever means necessarymutual disgust! Gwen, and the Royalistsyou see, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught is in a no manlove with Bridget (the kingdom's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion of the Deadonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Led by And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a disillusioned revolutionary's daughterboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the band subterfuge of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent falloutfalling 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 may have gotten find a way in over their heads with their latest rescue, Olympewhich they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. lie their whole lives?|isbn=17895436491526651793
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|author=Jenny ValentineNick Brooks|title=Hello NowPromise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. 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|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to Solomon Klyne isn't a smallbad lad, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into so why is he running around London committing a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just wonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing ll answer the first one: for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swearshis grandmother. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498
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|author= Ashley PostonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Bookish and the BeastDifferent for Boys|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after 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 ExcelsiConfootball team, we are introduced and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to Rosie Thorneprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a Small Townsingle-sex school can form, USA girl who has recently lost her mother the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up confusing for RosieAnt, and when she follows a stray dog into as he doesn't know what she thinks his score is an abandoned castle , where his achievements in her town, things just get worsethat regard lie. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother He's hospital had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and funeral costs she so has no money to cover effectively progressed up the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reignsladder headed by 'experienced', Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escapebut whether that's set in stone, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isncan't too fond be sure. And that's mostly because of her either. However, as who he's been having the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower relationship and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after allthe sex with. |isbn=16836919381529509491
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|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1800901232|title=BurnStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''On Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a cold Sunday evening fashion designer. Life in early 1957 - the very dayrural village where she lived with her family was happy, in factif not prosperous, that Dwight David Eisenhower took so when the oath of office for smartly-dressed man and woman came to the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father village to offer Hahn a job in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired Hanoi it was an opportunity not to help be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the farmmini-bus to Hanoi.''It's 1950s America but Only, Hanh and the other girls were not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still going to work in a Cold War with the Russiansshop, still a concomitant arms racethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And You know those jeans you really wanted: the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah ones with intricate embroidery and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is beading on the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. legs? The dragons live in an uneasy peace ones with humans the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold her co- they are dragons, after allworkers made them.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500
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|author=Jacqueline WilsonPatrice Lawrence|title=Love FrankieNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frankie Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is nearly fourteenextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with MSa pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, when your dad and has decided to leave taken up residence in her for another womanson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedyou might perhaps think, andthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, above allas Charlene is a wonder knitter, when Sally and is making something full of love for her mates are bullying you at schoolyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. OhWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when Samshe shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, your best friend since foreverwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - only to remark how sharp and you don't fancy him backpointy those knitting needles can be..Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 1800901011
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|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedAnn Sei Lin|title= Yes No Maybe So Rebel Skies|rating= 45
|genre= Teens
|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime Kurara has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for spent her entire life as a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassingservant on the Midori, he can't think a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of anything worsethe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Jaime has always wanted when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a politician and decides there is no time Crafter like him, someone with the present to conquer his fear of speaking power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the publicEmpire. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having He asks her to come with him, to leave the worst summer life of her lifedreary servitude that is all she has known. Her parents are going through a separationWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, she has zero plans for because the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend Midori is permanently busy. To help occupy herdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, her parents offer to buy her a car if and she agrees is forced to go canvassingflee out into the world. The pair could possibly be She joins Himura aboard the worst canvassing duo in historyOrihime, as neither of them really want a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they carehunt down shikigami, and a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14711846681406399590
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|author=AkalaMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Dark LadyWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''For Meet Fitz, a street kid from the Devil's Gapyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, London's most notorious slumand he should be free to do what he wants, life is short to go where he wants and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skinwhom he wants, inherited but he cannot stop himself from a mother who abandoned himputting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, life is tougher stillCassie. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent They were half of a pastdesultory school band, and possibly but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a futuresubhuman hum coming from the earth...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways Is this connected with one of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob her eco-warrior parents saying the houses end of the rich. Itworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caughttruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 14449436931800900899
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|author= Alyssa SheinmelTori Bovalino|title= What Kind of GirlThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school'' Doing something s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when you're scared she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkerthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's girlfriend comes into school with headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a black eyelarge request, claiming he gave Tess sticks post-it to hernotes on each of the books, her whole world is tipped upside downscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Her relationship has just ended and now sheThey's the talk re never meant to reach him, of the schoolcourse. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with Her plan is to get heranger out like this, everyone knew thatand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some donif someone hadn't, but one thing is delivered them for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonher.|isbn=03490032971789098130
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|author= Ben OliverPhilip Reeve|title= The LoopUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Set during the aftermath of In a Third World War where methods word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to riches in this story set on a horrific level by machinespeculiar island called Wildsea, The Loop follows British but way west, beyond the precarious existence of adolescent Luka KaneScillies. In a world There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of Have the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Have Nots their monster approaching from even further west, where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escapeship dare sail. A detonator The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by keep notes of activity from the guards Hidden Lands, his brother Will who can end lives in London with too much science in his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access head to his memories worry about such local yokel superstitions, and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffersea one day eleven years ago. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the visits world of sympathetic Alt guard Wrenprotecting their island, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?like it or not.|isbn=19126265511788452372
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|author=Mark LinganeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Julia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on Julia, our pre- teen heroine, has been packed off with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his her parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by their cat from the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and on board family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the ''Moonlight'' under far NE of the suspicious eyes Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of its leader, Queen BeaScottish island. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that Dad isgoing to be automating the lantern, there's an assassination attempt and Arid which is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her other daughter, Frey, stranded career in algae behind to hunt the desert..elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn= 099461649X1510107789
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziJonathan Stroud|title=PetThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to understand that they were saved by wander the angels, those who rid wildlands between the town Seven Kingdoms of evilBritain, robbing banks and there are no monsters anymoreshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herselfthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and bleeds a little onto one darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of her mother's paintingsthe London Lagoon. The blood awakens a bizarreTogether, terrifyingthey must brave man-looking creature named Peteating wildlife, who somehow comes to life the cannibalistic Tainted and declares that it is here to hunt all the monster. Though Jam tries horrors of post-apocalyptic society to convince it that all reach the monsters are goneFree Isles, Pet is certain that but will they be any more accepted there is one, still, and that the monster is hiding than they are in the home rest of her best friend, Redemption.Britain?|isbn=05713551101406394815
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonMercedes Helnwein|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana, Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being unique on her islandlonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is the victim of used to not being a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. Itpriority in people's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the islandslingshot, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home simple existence is changed for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storygood. A shipwreck disturbs No longer can she spend her leading performance time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a running race, but the survivor boy in it that she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more..never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=1401282555152905818X
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|author=Tanya LandmanT L Huchu|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A young womanRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, fresh using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary . Ever since she dropped out of school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – she's been using it to have something like the life she wants – and with support not only one jobherself, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absentbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. When he does turn up he seems to be darkHowever, brooding and troubled – but thatthere's nothing compared to an evil stalking the darkerruined streets of Edinburgh, more broody and even more troubled secret in targeting the housecity's children. YesSoon, if you know Jane Eyre then you know Ropa is pulled into the rest – but if you don't, search for whatever reason, this a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is a wonderful book far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to turn to.this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn=17811291261529039452
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiKristen O'Neal|title=Permanent RecordLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=PabloHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodegaPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. HeShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveninghelp each other out, hewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's surprised t respond to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is chat for a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seemwhile, they start a relationshipPriya becomes concerned. With one character who is trying very hard not She decides to be seen or noticed by anyone, steal her parents' car and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, itdrive to Brigid's an interesting clash as they come togetherhouse to check up on her. This isnBut what she doesn't just expect to find there is a love story though, werewolf in the basement – and actually it's really just Pab's story, about for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartpast few months.|isbn=03490034591683692349
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|author= Alexandra ChristoGoldy Moldavsky|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Last Girl|rating= 45|genre= Teensteens|summary= In Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city of Creije– and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, Tavia, a magical con-artist, specialises she has no ties to some royal family in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickery. HoweverSerbia, when a new and powerful form most of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto all, she spends the streets, nearly killing majority of her close friend Saxonyspare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, Tavia begins to worryuntil one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. At A secret society with one aim: pull off the same timebest prank in true horror movie style, her childhood best friend Wesleyand unless someone screams, the youngest underboss you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the city, discovers that Dante Ashwood, kingpin of competition. But as the Creijen criminal underworldpranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has his sights set on world domination. It's now found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the four unlikely allies pranks, and people begin to bring down his plans.get hurt.When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=12503183780755501527
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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401280048.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401280048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put Move on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401283292.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401283292/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Thrillers Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]]