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|author=Rob WintersRachel Greenlaw|title=His Name Was WrenCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near ''I can hear the village song of Hurstwickthe sea. It came down hardThe call of the deep, taking the spire of the village church with itanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, destroying a stone shackremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and leaving a wide trail through plundering the woodwrecks. Mira, but no trace like her mother before her, is one of what it actually wasthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. German secret weapon was But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the local gossipisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, but there should have been an explosion Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a craterfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and there were neither of those thingsthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB0008664730

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiHarry Allen|title=YolkChildren of the Sun

|summary= Jayne Baek Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a fashion student that's barely getting bytalented singer. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; Life is hard and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, food is a complete contrast difficult to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it allcome by, so Seo and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city looking for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, tree bark and Jayne is edible grasses to supplement the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together meagre rations of rice and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitieskimchi at home.|isbn= 03490036961805140493

|author=Becky AlbertalliAlexia Casale|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= SixteenIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-year-old Simon Spier has changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a great dance performance that was going to change her life. He has a close group of friends But she comes back fighting, a loving familydesperate to avoid the pity stares, and even an adorable dog. But he has desperate to get back to a secret: helife that's gayas normal as she can possibly manage. Only one person knows this, and that Meanwhile there's Blue – a new (cute!) boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out that there was another closeted guy , and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at his schoolher to navigate. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it So even though she can's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong handst dance anymore, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=014135609X0571373801

|author=Anna CareySimon Fox|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1712435728|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's just being released fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Southern General Hospitalrun. The nurse thinks he'll come back They get together, but barely begin to visit smell the other patients but Alex has no intention whiff of doing that: he's been there for a yearSouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the same ward where his brother died and nowlate express to Brighton, with toting a tin his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants father was determined to get outside and back with keep away from his friends: his brothercolleagues, Forbes, says that and the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexbearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420

|author=Alice OsemanLex Croucher|title=SolitaireGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Who knew that what I really needed to Year 12 following Christmas break read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and feels dead Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the world. Nothing their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; in love with Bridget (the rest are just people she sits near so shekingdom's not a complete loneronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. She hates And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a lot boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of things - including herselffalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But suddenlyas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere way in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (which they can both truly be themselves, or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem are they destined to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, reallylive a lie their whole lives? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=97800075592201526651793

|author=Alice OsemanNick Brooks|title=LovelessPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Georgia 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 teenager who's embarking on her first year grudge of university some description against Principal Moore, and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always each could have been in love with love. With there at the idea time of lovehis murder. But who killed him, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for her has always been different. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something why, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in if any kind of realthe boys are innocent, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by it. But isn't that what she's supposed will they be able to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't sheclear their names?|isbn=000824412X1035003155

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi1919635017|title=How It All Blew UpA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=18 year old Amir Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is American Iranian, he running around London committing a muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening get an answer to show the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaygrandmother...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Black KidsDifferent for Boys

|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel 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 set against the backdrop one of four with both his best buddy from the 1992 Los Angeles riotsfootball team, a reaction and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the absolution of four police officers for beating leash only a black mansingle-sex school can form, Rodney King, nearly the talk in class and out often turns to deathsex. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, the novel follows her evolution from where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racecasual relationship, to a woman finding her voice secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by '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 embracing her heritagethe sex with.|isbn=14711881911529509491

|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Suzanne CollinsSteve Cole|titlerating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The Ballad of Songbirds ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Snakesher co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=4.53

|summary= Coriolanus Snow Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is refinedextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, charmingyou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the only surviving members plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of the affluent Snow familylove 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. And then.. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonewell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, his parents dead - only to remark how sharp and yet the facade must pointy those knitting needles can be maintained. As ..|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the 10th Hunger Games beginsMidori, Coriolanus and other students of a massive dining hall floating in the Academy become the first Mentors sky where soldiers of the tributes in the games. This is his chance Empire come to prove himself to the world drink and secure his place in the Capitol for goodmake merry between their conquests. But However, when he a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is assigned a tribute Crafter like him, someone with no hope - the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a girl from District 12 - he thinks power sought after all chances of winning (both for across the Empire. He asks her and for to come with him) are gone, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his worldWell, in a way he could never soon Kurara won't have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life any say in the arena - but behind the scenesmatter, in because the slyMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, complex and strangely dangerous she is forced to flee out into the world of . She joins Himura aboard the CapitolOrihime, Coriolanus a sky-ship whose express purpose is fighting for his life too. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=07023001791406399590

|author=James PattersonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerMeet Fitz, every day, for yearsa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. She Lockdown is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was only just tinyover, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herhe should be free to do what he wants, she continues to head back there each daygo where he wants and with whom he wants, just but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in caseit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsThey were half of a desultory school band, and can fly! Since she but Cassie was abandoned also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she's been living could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with a group one of other children, all with interesting characteristics her eco-warrior parents saying the end of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city world is seemingly even more troubled than usual, therealready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the prison next door to where the children livetruth? Well, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been taken, and not when Cassie has gone missing he can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?t...|isbn=15291200041800900899

|author= Samira AhmedTori Bovalino|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 34.5

|summary=''In the end, we Working all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam canher boarding school't relax and stop thinking about s library is the mess last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she left behind in Chicago. On gets a chance encounter with request for over a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds hundred books that she has to deliver herself on a historical journey with him to unveil . What makes it worse is the truth about man who requested the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumasbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byrona man Tess hates. 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 two teenagers travel books, scribbled with the city they not only discover themselvesugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, but uncover the true story of the woman course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and why then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it was one that should never have been forgottenwould be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=03490035561789098130

|author=Angela MackPhilip Reeve|title=I Am UnworthyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Isabel In a word, rich. There is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be differentcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtThere are troll people on it, the fearand sea-witches, and legends of the person she became. Josh is determined Dark family that has to keep goingwatch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, even through where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the rageWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the painHidden Lands, and using his fists brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to solve any problem or situationworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his brothers apartcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1788452372

|author=Non PrattKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Freya was a beautifulJulia, popular and complex girlour pre-teen heroine, loved by many has been packed off with her parents and seemingly stable their cat from the family home in her existence as SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a queen bee 16-year-old studentsummer, complete with best friend and in the promise far NE of the end of GCSEs just months awayScottish islands. But one day Here be Vikings, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her sincethat kind of Scottish island. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but Dad is surprised going to find be automating the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerlantern, and then another layer to another person and anotherwhich is his specialist thing, each containing an item unique while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and hunt the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it allelusive Greenland shark. With each parcel And Julia, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bondswell, both new she will be homesick and oldalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669431510107789

|author=Kat EllisJonathan Stroud|title=Harrow LakeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaScarlett McCain is an outlaw, daughter rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxwander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, she is saying goodbye robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentskeep herself alive. But when then she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doormeets Albert Browne, a trail of blood, dark boy with dark powers and her father dying in his studya darker past. And soWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, while he recovers, she is sent off they plan to flee to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for mythical Free Isles of the film that made her parents famousLondon Lagoon. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the people here. Secrets about her mother cannibalistic Tainted and dark tales all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerFree Isles, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not but will they be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks any more accepted there than they are in Harrow Lake.the rest of Britain?|isbn=02413970491406394815

|author=Holly JacksonMercedes Helnwein|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=A month on from the explosive conclusion Gracie Welles has resigned herself to the Andie Bell mysterybeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippapriority in people's viral podcast detailing lives. But when she defends a random boy in her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionclass with her slingshot, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she stumbled out of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries to heal again, six years on from the events of that nightspend her time writing novels in solitude, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And so, alongside for her difficult life as now has a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, boy in it that she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=1405297751152905818X

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallT L Huchu|title= The Mermaid, Library of the Witch and the SeaDead|rating= 4.5

|summary= On the pirate ship DoveRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Flora the girl has assumed the identity using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Florian the man in an attempt Scottish pragmatism) to fit in with take messages from the crewdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Life is hard as a pirateEver since she dropped out of school, trust and empathy are the first things she's been using it to be discardedsupport not only herself, but anything has to be better than starving on her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streetsof Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. MeanwhileSoon, Ropa is pulled into the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's never met on some far-flung colony of ve imagined. Will she find the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects missing children and bring an end to be thrown together by fatethis evil, never mind fall in love…or will it claim her too?|isbn=15362043151529039452

|author=Holly JacksonKristen O'Neal|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=5 years agoHaving 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 tiny town rest of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murderedher life. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyoneShe joins 's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confessionOof Ouch My Bones'' text , an online support group where she talks to his dad a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and died in help each other out, while also providing an apparent suicide escape to just days after joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and closest friends—doesn't respond to the case was closedchat for a while, so the town Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and its families tried moved drive to Brigid's house to check up onher. Now Pippa But what she doesn't expect to find there is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, with a werewolf in the help of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, basement – and Pippa begins for that werewolf to unearth be the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer girl she gets, has been talking to online for the more dangerous it becomespast few months.|isbn=14052931871683692349

|author=Kat DunnGoldy Moldavsky|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Last Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teensteens|summary= It's Paris, 1794Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. The Revolution is five years old and A school filled to the brim with the country richest children in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionariescity – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, trying she has no ties to maintain their control by whatever means necessarysome royal family in Serbia, and the Royalistsmost of all, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions is she spends the Battalion majority of the Dead. Led by her spare time watching horror movies as a disillusioned revolutionary's daughter, the band source of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent falloutcomfort. But they may have gotten in over their heads She struggles to find anyone to connect with their latest rescue, Olympe, a girl until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her one aim: pull off the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. |isbn=1789543649}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Hello Now|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to a smallbest prank in true horror movie style, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a bigunless someone screams, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can'tcompetition. As Jude settles into this newBut as the pranks escalate, seemingly mundane, reality and Rachel finally feels like she is consumed by a longing for has found her old life place in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the last time, she swears. This world is quietpranks, dull and yet suffocating for Judepeople begin to get hurt. That is until When the day Novo arrivescompetition then takes a deadly turn, and her entire concept of the world changes foreverRachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=00074664980755501527