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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.''

<!-- House -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140637167XRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.jpg|link=http://wwwMira, 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/140637167X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Goose Road by Rowena House]]=== [[image:5starBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] It's 1916 and 14 year old Angélique Desperate 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 mother are struggling to keep , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the family farm running while their menfolk fight on a distant battlefieldsea. When the Requisition soldiers visit a second timeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, claiming all as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the farmsmuggler's remaining livestock apart from their flock of Toulouse geese, Angélique thinks things can't get any worse. Butterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of course, they do. Her mother is taken ill and Angélique discovers secret debts that threaten their her home. The situation seems hopeless until Angélique and her Uncle Gustav hatch a plan that could save the farm: a plan that will require Angélique to embark on a long journey across France with the only thing they have left of any value – the geeseones she holds most dear. [[The Goose Road by Rowena House|Full Review]]isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage<!-- Christo -->|author=Harry Allen|-title=Children of the Sun| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|5[[image:147140739X.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147140739X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[To Kill Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a Kingdom talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by Alexandra Christo]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}, 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=1805140493}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]{{FrontpageLira and Elian are both royalty and they are both killers. Lira is the Siren princess, with seventeen princes|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can' hearts buried in the sand of her bed. Elian is the Midasan prince, and an infamous Siren hunter. When his friend is murdered, Elian is determined to catch the worst Siren of them all, the one they call the princet Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's bane, and end this war between sea and land. Meanwhile Lira is hunting Elian, desperate hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to save herself and secure her place as Sea Queen. When fate throws them togethernavigate a life-changing disability too, they embark but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a mission for their own endsdance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, but desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can they really destroy each other? [[To Kill possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo|Full Review]] <!-- McCaughrain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?[[image:1406375659.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406375659/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary==[[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Flying tips for flightless birds Late one night Graham Blake is a quirky late back from his shift on the force, and complex storythen suddenly rings Archie, told with an elegant simplicity that hooks you demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first few pagesrun. A gentle They get together, but gripping exploration barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the highs and lows of being a young personfather is arrested, of loveleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, friends and the relationship we have with ourselves and othersbearer of a whole heap of questions. [[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain|Full Review]]isbn=1839944420}}<!-- Faulks 7/3 -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lex Croucher| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/refTeens|summary=nosimWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Seer But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. 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 Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4staronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seer's Curse'' is billed as a pre-teen novel 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, I would say that it would appeal to when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a wide audience interested way in fantasy and mythologywhich they can both truly be themselves, as well as just or are they destined to live a good tale. [[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulkslie their whole lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1526651793}}<!-- Watscon -->{{Frontpage|-author=Nick Brooks| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Promise Boys|rating=4[[image:Watson_Piecing.jpg|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408897342/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:5starWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jade lives in Each, seemingly, has a rough area grudge of Portlandsome description against Principal Moore, Oregonand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But she goes to a very posh school on scholarship.Andwho killed him, as a scholarship girland why, Jade knows she must grab every opportunity and if any of the school offers. Her motherboys are innocent, a care worker, won't will they be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice cream, let alone collegeable to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4. But why do all the opportunities the school offers Jade seem so, well, ''patronising''? Jade doesn5|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't feel like a charity case. She doesn't feel broken. Her mum bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a good mum. Itseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's infuriatingll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But, when I'll answer the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarship, how can she say no? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson|Full Review]]first one: for his grandmother...}}<!-- Barnard -->{{Frontpage|-author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Different for Boys[[image:Barnard_Perfect.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens |summary===[[GoodbyeAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Perfect by Sara Barnard]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Edie McKinley isn't 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 world's greatest student. And she has a history of rebellious behaviourfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But she has most of that under control now As they're all fired up, with straining at the help of her adoptive familyleash only a single-sex school can form, her lovely boyfriend the talk in class and her best friend Bonnie, who is a straight A student with a bright future aheadout often turns to sex. That Which isconfusing for Ant, until Edie wakes up one morning to find the police at her door. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriendas he doesn't know what his score is, Jackwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack He's had a casual relationship, even with Edie and Edie is about to find out why - Jack is none other than Mr Cohna secret one, a music teacher at school. [[Goodbyefor several months now, Perfect and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491<!-- Watson -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1800901232| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole[[image:Watson_Wren.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884933/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="verticalTwelve-align: top; textyear-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5starold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Every year on St Stephens Day Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are Judges if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she job in Hanoi it was an Augur - their sworn enemy - the game would opportunity not to be upmissed.'' ''The Wren Hunt'' is set in a contemporary Ireland where Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the ancient druidic traditions are still in playmini-bus to Hanoi. The Judges have dominated Only, Hanh and the Augurs by buying up the land containing the sources of Augur power. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting and are determined other girls were not going to win it back. To this endwork in a shop, Wren has been chosen they were to infiltrate the house of work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the prominent Judge, Cassa Harkness, to find ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the information they need. legs? [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|Full Review]] <!ones with the artfully-- Benway -->placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|-author=Patrice Lawrence| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Needle[[image:Benway_Far.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 3| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[Far from Brave. Charlene, the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Having just given up her new-born baby 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for adoptionsome people to like, 16-year-old Grace is desperate to look for the one person who could truly understand how she feelscharacters and readers both. The birth mother that gave her up for adoption when Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she was 's fostering with a baby. What Grace doesn't expectpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, is to discover that she and has siblingstaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. A confident, loud-mouthed younger sisterSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, Mayayou might perhaps think, adopted by and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wealthy family living just twenty minutes away. And Joaquin, their stoic older brotherwonder knitter, hardened by seventeen years in and out is making something full of foster care. [[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!-- Miranda -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miranda_Fragmentslove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.jpg|left|link=http://wwwAnd then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.amazon.co.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating===[[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda]]===5[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth summary= Kurara has lost spent her entire life as a servant on the only boy she has ever lovedMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Jessa Whitworth has lost However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendthat she is a Crafter like him, Caleb, died but someone with the power to form paper into whatever she still cannot find desires – a power sought after all across the strength Empire. He asks her to move on come with her him, to leave the lifeof dreary servitude that is all she has known. So when CalebWell, soon Kurara won's mother asks Jessa to clean out his roomt have any say in the matter, things go from bad because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to worseflee out into the world. [[Fragments She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of the Lost by Megan Mirandaadventure awaits her…|Full Review]]isbn=1406399590}}<!-- Shaw -->{{Frontpage|-author=Marcus Sedgwick| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Wrath|rating=4.5[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=https://wwwMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.5starThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is determined to escape from his Home Academy and to find already a done deal? Is it some spooky new home with his dog, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge is going to be getting kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out and over the wall buttruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he does, he finds this is the least of his worriescan't. 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]]isbn=1800900899}}<!-- Khan -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tori Bovalino| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Devil Makes Three [[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie5|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-alignWorking 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 to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering to As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the recent trend for politicised YA novelsbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating re never meant to being a Muslim in modern Britainreach him, of course. It tells the story of Muzna, a shy teenager who Her plan is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask get her anger out despite interest from several other girls at school. Howeverlike this, her delight wavers when she discovers how Arifand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western cultureif someone hadn't delivered them for her. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]isbn=1789098130}}<!-- Ahmed -->{{Frontpage|-author=Philip Reeve| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwIn a word, rich.amazonThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagThere are troll people on it, and sea-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lovewitches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the story of MayaWatcher, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagersAndrewe, she is struggling who has to convince her parents keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to allow her to move away to attend university. Howeverworry about such local yokel superstitions, in Mayaand Andrewe's casefoundling daughter, things are more complicated than usual, after instances who washed up out of Islamophobia make her parents extra protectivethe sea one day eleven years ago. [[LoveBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Hate both his sullen brother and Other Filters by Samira Ahmedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|Full Review]]isbn=1788452372}}<!-- Holland -->{{Frontpage|-author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Julia and the Shark|rating=4[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwJulia, 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.amazon Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island.co 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.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1408349159]]1510107789}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]===4[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the kingdom draconian conformity of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of blood-coinsBritain, currency taken from actual blood robbing banks and denominated in weeksshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, months or even years 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 lifethe London Lagoon. In SemperaTogether, as you'd imaginethey must brave man-eating wildlife, the rich live for a long time cannibalistic Tainted and all the poor do not. In debt and struggling horrors of post-apocalyptic society to afford reach the rentFree Isles, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to but will they be any more accepted there than they are in 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 -->|-| stylerest of Britain?|isbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1406394815[[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. 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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the roada man with a "real" family, she knows immediately that something is wrongused to not being a priority in people's lives. Then But when she sees her body lying defends a random boy in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it. A disembodied ghost, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own death, as her friends and family struggle to deal class with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despairslingshot, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownsimple existence is changed for good. She's always had a strong bond with No longer can she spend her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else cantime writing novels in solitude, and gives for her the chance to return to the living world. Lily life now has a lot of unfinished business. And top on boy in it that list is making her killer payshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>152905818X

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|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this worldRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority in using Zimbabwean magic (and a world bit of chaos and disorder, Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Renegades fought dead of Edinburgh for freedom their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and justiceher aging grandmother. Victorious in driving their opponentsHowever, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with there's an extraordinary range of abilities are now evil stalking the lawmakers and leaders ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the futurecity's children. Soon, governing Ropa is pulled into the search for a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are missing boy at the heroes request of society; the role models young children look his dead mother. She will end up to, discovering an occult library and realise that the officers people look to for justice world of magic is far bigger and strengthmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. All except Will she find the fraction of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting missing children and planning until they are able bring an end to get back what was stolen from them.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1529039452