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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina Hammonds ReedRachel Greenlaw|title=The Black KidsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against 'I can hear the song of the backdrop sea. The call of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsdeep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a reaction 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. But when the absolution of four police officers for beating Council Watch lays a black mantrap to end the wrecking, Rodney Kingthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, nearly Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to deathguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Told With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the perspective watched streets of Ashley Bennett, foreign islands to the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters heart of racethe smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to a woman finding stop at nothing to save the future of her voice home and embracing her heritagethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn1471188191isbn=0008664730

|author=Suzanne CollinsHarry Allen|title=The Ballad Children of Songbirds and Snakesthe Sun|rating=4.5

|summary= Coriolanus Snow Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familya talented singer. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - Life is hard and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This food is his chance difficult to prove himself to the world come by, so Seo and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself tree bark and edible grasses to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As supplement the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex meagre rations of rice and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tookimchi at home. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791805140493

|author=James PattersonAlexia Casale|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Hawk has been waiting It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents middle of a dance performance that was going to come and get change herlife. They left her there when But she was just tinycomes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming desperate to get back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isna life that't your ordinary street urchin though...s as normal as she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familypossibly manage. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, Meanwhile there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to the prison next door try to where the children livesort out, and then one just the day to day Hawk comes home traumas of all the challenges her body continues to find throw at her family have been taken awayto navigate. Where have they been taken, and So even though she can Hawk rescue them before it's too latet dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=15291200040571373801

|author= Samira AhmedSimon Fox|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowDeadlock|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''In Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the endforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like demanding he fetch something from a dream for most peoplesecret place, especially art-loversand join him on the run. They get together, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about barely begin to smell the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant whiff of Alexandre DumasSouthern trains when the father is arrested, Khayyam finds herself leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a historical journey with him tin his father was determined to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumaskeep away from his colleagues, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story bearer of a whole heap of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottenquestions.|isbn=03490035561839944420

|author=Angela MackLex Croucher|title=I Am UnworthyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= Isabel is determined Who knew that what I really needed to start freshread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurttheir mutual disgust! Gwen, the fearyou see, and is in love with Bridget (the person she becamekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Josh is determined to keep going And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, even through creating the ragesubterfuge of falling in love with each other, the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situationwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collideas their impending wedding draws ever closer, can will they make their relationship work? Can find a way in which they can both finally truly be happy? Or will Josh's time run outthemselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1526651793

|author=Non PrattNick Brooks|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartPromise Boys

|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and When the promise principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the end of GCSEs just months awaypolice station as suspects. But one day Each, on January 1stseemingly, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives has a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers grudge of some kinddescription against Principal Moore, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' could have been there at the end time of it allhis murder. With each parcel But who killed him, and why, a new layer and if any of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bondsboys are innocent, both new and old. Can what's been broken will they be fixed? And why did Freya leaveable to clear their names?|isbn=14063669431035003155

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1919635017|title=Harrow LakeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, daughter so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye wait to get an answer to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe second question because I avoid spoilers. But when she is found by her fatherI's assistant ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and forced to come homeTea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, she arrives and is surprised to find an unlocked doorhis geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, a trail so his desk is one of bloodfour with both his best buddy from the football team, and her father dying two other old muckers – in his studyfact they all go back to primary school days together. And so As they're all fired up, while he recoversstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, she the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lakeconfusing for Ant, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isnhe doesn't rightknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. There He's had a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and dark tales of so has effectively progressed up the townladder headed by 's cannibal monster experienced'Mister Jitters, but whether that' fill every corners set in stone, and disturbing happenings plague Lolahe can't be sure. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think And that these stories may not be stories at all, 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakethe sex with.|isbn=02413970491529509491

|authorisbn=Holly Jackson1800901232|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=A month on from Brave. Charlene, the explosive conclusion 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to the Andie Bell mysterylike, a new normal has settled over Little Kiltoncharacters and readers both. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey Kicked out of discovering the truth about Andie multiple homes and Salschools, she's deaths has gained massive media attentionfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Cara and has taken up residence in her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out tempestuous personality may be in need of his housea comfort blanket, bleedingyou might perhaps think, and disappeared into the night. As creation of one such item is part of the town tries to heal againplot here, six years on from the events of that nightas Charlene is a wonder knitter, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one and is making something full of Pippalove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friends has gone missingallowed contact with no more. And soWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, alongside and then force people to give her difficult life two days off school, when she shouts someone down as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldexpletively ignorant. And then... well, she what exactly happens is once again taken down a darknot for me to say, twisted path only to discover the truthremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14052977511800901011

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAnn Sei Lin|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRebel Skies

|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the pirate ship DoveMidori, Flora the girl has assumed a massive dining hall floating in the identity sky where soldiers of Florian the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man in an attempt named Himura arrives to fit in tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the crew. Life is hard as power to form paper into whatever she desires – a pirate, trust and empathy are power sought after all across the first things Empire. He asks her to be discardedcome with him, but anything has to be better than starving on leave the streetslife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. MeanwhileWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards matter, because the DoveMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, headed off to be married and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a military man she's never met on some farsky-flung colony of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects ship whose express purpose is to be thrown together by fatehunt down shikigami, never mind fall in love…and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=15362043151406399590

|author=Holly JacksonMarcus Sedgwick|title=A Good Girl's Guide to Murder|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=5 years ago, the tiny town of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closed, so the town and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, with the help of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.|isbn=1405293187}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Dunn|title=Dangerous RemedyWrath

|summary= It's ParisMeet Fitz, 1794a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The Revolution Lockdown is five years old only just over, and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionarieshe should be free to do what he wants, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, go where he wants and the Royalistswith whom he wants, still loyal but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to monarchy intenthis best friend, Cassie. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion They were half of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughterdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the band of outcasts have made enigmatic – saying she could hear a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens subhuman hum coming from the violent falloutearth. But they may have gotten in over their heads Is this connected with their latest rescue, Olympe, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make one of her eco-warrior parents saying the spark that blows up end of the powder-keg world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of revolutionary Paris? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |isbn=17895436491800900899

|author=Jenny ValentineTori Bovalino|title=Hello NowThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after Working all summer in her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking boarding school's library is the sea - which happens last thing Tess Matheson wants to contain do — especially when she gets a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like request for over a ghost hundred books that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swearshas to deliver herself. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That What makes it worse is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498}}{{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and man who requested the Beast|rating= 3books: Mr Birch.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high The boarding school. Things keep piling up for Rosie's headmaster, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worseman Tess hates. Rosie accidentally destroys As a rare book and with petty act of revenge for making her mother's hospital find and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reignsdeliver such a large request, Hollywood royalty Tess sticks post-it notes on a paparazzi escapeeach of the books, to repay scribbled with the debtugliest insults she can think of.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isnThey't too fond re never meant to reach him, of her eithercourse. However, as the two are forced Her plan is to get to know each otherher anger out like this, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be so terrible after all, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |isbn=16836919381789098130

|author=Patrick NessPhilip Reeve|title=BurnUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''On In a cold Sunday evening word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in early 1957 - this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the very dayScillies. There are troll people on it, in factand sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office 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 second time as President Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with her father too much science in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired his head to help on the farm.''Itworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USfoundling daughter, there is still a Cold War with who washed up out of the Russianssea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah both his sullen brother and her Japanese American friend Jason his curious ward are only too well aware of. As is thrust into the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out protecting their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragonsisland, after alllike it or not.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001788452372

|author=Jacqueline WilsonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Love FrankieJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been diagnosed packed off with MS, when your dad has decided her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to leave her be lighthousekeepers for another womana summer, when your older sister has turned into in the far NE of the girliest girl who ever livedScottish islands. Here be Vikings, andthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, above allwhich is his specialist thing, when Sally and while mum will be leaving her mates are bullying you at schoolcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Oh And Julia, well, she will be homesick and when Sam, your best friend since forever, alone – until she suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him backfinds company one night. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 1510107789

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedJonathan Stroud|title= Yes No Maybe So The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''We might give it our all Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and crash Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and burnshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forthen she meets Albert Browne, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin a dark boy with campaigning in time for dark powers and a special electiondarker past. When his mother encourages him With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted flee to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear mythical Free Isles of speaking to the publicLondon Lagoon. Maya is a PakistaniTogether, they must brave man-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationeating wildlife, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things cannibalistic Tainted and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be all the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither horrors of them really want post-apocalyptic society to be therereach the Free Isles, but as the campaign goes on will they discover that be any more accepted there than they care, a lot, about are in the election - and maybe even about each otherrest of Britain?|isbn=14711846681406394815

|author=AkalaMercedes Helnwein|title=The Dark LadySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=''For Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, secret illegitimate daughter of a boy thief man with brown skin, inherited from a mother who abandoned him"real" family, life she is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems used to represent not being a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. Itpriority in people's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choiceslives. But there are pleasures toowhen she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, and her simple existence is changed for Henrygood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespearefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693152905818X

|author= Alyssa SheinmelT L Huchu|title= What Kind The Library of Girlthe Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Ropa Moyo is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkera ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave been using it to support not only herself, but her, younger sister and her whole world is tipped upside downaging grandmother. Her relationship has just ended and now sheHowever, there's an evil stalking the talk ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the schoolcity's children. Mike was Soon, Ropa is pulled into the most popular search for a missing boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her the world of magic is far bigger and some donmore dangerous than she ever could'tve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soon.or will it claim her too?|isbn=03490032971529039452

|author= Ben OliverKristen O'Neal|title= The LoopLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the aftermath rest of a Third World War her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up she talks to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence bunch of adolescent Luka Kaneother teens living with chronic illnesses. In a world of Have They talk about their troubles and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regularshelp each other out, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of while also providing an escapeto just joke and mess around. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeezewhile, Priya becomes concerned. Luka is taunted by limited access She decides to his memories steal her parents' car and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritualdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Doomed But what she doesn't expect to Delay [a risky medical trial where he find there is a guinea pig for Alts werewolf in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed basement – and for that werewolf to make its inmates suffer. With be the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why girl she has he been imprisoned? What waits talking to online for him if he can break the loop?past few months.|isbn=19126265511683692349

|author=Mark LinganeGoldy Moldavsky|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)The Last Girl|rating=45|genre=Teensteens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She'Degrade'' opens s not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as it means a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to go on - connect with inyerface, banging actionuntil one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. Poor AridA secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, alone you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the desert since his parents were killedcompetition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and his is pretty much destroyedpeople begin to get hurt. He finds himself rescued by When the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leadercompetition then takes a deadly turn, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find Rachel must figure out why that who this masked figure is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Beabefore it's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert...too late.|isbn= 099461649X0755501527