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|author=Tanya Landman
|title=Jane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.
|isbn=1781129126
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|author=Mary H.K. Choi
|title=Permanent Record
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.
|isbn=0349003459
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|author= Alexandra Christo
|title= Into the Crooked Place
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= In a world thriving with black magic, four young crooks embark on a quest to take down their criminal leader after they discover the plot behind his dangerous new magic.
|isbn=1250318378
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===[[Paper Avalanche Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Lisa WilliamsonMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time 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 school trying to pass under the radarage of eighteen. She doesnFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he't want anyone to notice hers inherited from his murdered parents, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want he wants to be friends, and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to her housedo charitable deeds. You seeBut one night, Ro's mum is when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a hoardercriminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and their whole house, with gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the exception home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of Ro's bedroomsome other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, is an evera gang who steal any ten-growing mound of rubbish and paperfigure bank account contents they can, and Ro lives in fear murder the owner. Can he get close to one of social services finding out them and taking her away. get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Paper Avalanche Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Lisa WilliamsonMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]]
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put 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 believe in love at first sighthad a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. Fate That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, the universewith their non-standard spelling, all as if texts of itscripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But not how you're thinking. why was I don't mean it two chapters in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and ever sort of way. no proof that this was what I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think d bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the universe nudges them into your path.''Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Oliver Tamaki and Pugh -->
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===[[Broken Things Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Lauren OliverMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]===
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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she''This 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 problem other someone she only meets at night – a lad with words a singular graffiti tag and even storiesa mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: there is never one truth''Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]]
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver|Full Review]] <!-- Connors Watson -->
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===[[Blue Sky Black Some Places More Than Others by John ConnorsRenee Watson]]===
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Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father'When Tom Allenby, s side of the 14 yearfamily. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why -old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into both her parents are resistant to the air one night he knows he idea. But Amara is facing nothing if not persistent and a powerful enemyschool family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stonesEventually, sinister experiments her parents give in an old country house and a village hiding off she goes... with a secretmission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?'' Of course he can! [[ Blue Sky Black Some Places More Than Others by John Connors Renee Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Emmich -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0316420239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316420239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, who has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and gets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he has a crush on and who is Connor's sister. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich|Full Review]] <!-- Rossner Thakur -->
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Rena RossnerSophia Thakur]]===
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Raised in Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a small village surrounded by woodland on the border collection of Moldova poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and Ukraine'grow again', sisters Liba and Laya have lived guiding you through a sheltered life - although there are whispers process which is one of troubling times ahead for Jews. When their grandfather takes ill, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbed, but life for Liba and Laya foundations that the anthology is about to drastically changebuilt on. Before their parents leaveEach section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as ranging from a child are in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn in to quote by a bear and her Mami in Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a swan. Liba must carry this secret in order nice introduction to help protect her sister, but the arrival of a mysterious group of men in section before you are immersed into the village carries more danger as Laya is dragged under their spell. Both sisters must stick together if they are to survive what is happening around them beautifully written and they soon realise eloquent poems that their new-found magical heritage may be what saves themThakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Rena RossnerSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[Snowglobe Rose, Interrupted by Amy WilsonPatrice Lawrence]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Weymouth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911490036.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911490036/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of London. In the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents to join them, Evelyn prayed to be anywhere else. A plea that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment in grey London and the next surrounded by a rich green forest, the three children were transported from one world trapped in war, to another on the brink of its own. [[The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth|Full Review]] <!-- Webber -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1406369055.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406369055/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 | style="verticalRose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Though it's been 5 years since Mika diedlike fundamentalist Christian sect, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every dayPilgrims, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been twoalong with their mother. She has While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Sethkeep the rent paid on their tiny flat, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the grief Rose and loss that continue Rudder are trying to scar them allnavigate the worldly world. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, itIt's not so clear that sheeasy when everything is new and the rigid rules you's falling in love with himve always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Rose, Interrupted by Katherine WebberPatrice Lawrence|Full Review]] <!-- Hunt Gregory -->
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===[[Phantom I Hold Your Heart by Leo HuntKaren Gregory]]===
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Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a leecher - a futuristic kind good, close set of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workersfriends. The higher up Gemma loves country music and in the city you live, the more sunlight you see her spare time she enjoys writing and the easier your lifesinging country songs. She's pretty good at it too. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, Home life is tough. But with the help of busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the hacking program Phantomwhole family, invented propelled by legendary antiGemma's rather over-corps hacker invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the Mothhandsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Nova can sneak up Gemma is keen to the city, leech some byts and at least make rentsee where romance could lead... v [[Phantom I Hold Your Heart by Leo HuntKaren Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Darnton Filby -->
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===[[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]] <!-- Lange -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:161963502X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/161963502X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chaos Evil Occupants of Now by Erin Lange]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]] <!-- Ruffles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444937685.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444937685/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Colour Me In Easingdale Castle by Lydia RufflesRay Filby]]===
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Reeling from Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a tragedy level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and unable to copeits head, Mr Johnston, unemployed actor Arlo decides is keen to get on involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a plane flair for software and go somewhere newhas recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[Colour Me In The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Lydia RufflesRay Filby|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once The Starlight Watchmaker by Jess VallanceLauren James]]===
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Gracie Dart This is a studiousdyslexia-friendly, responsible student with a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her wallsscience fiction novella for young adults. She's hardworking It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and smart but once her final school exams are overrather lonely android, Gracie has who makes a revelationliving for himself mending time-travel watches. After she mistakenly thinks she's contracted When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a fatal illness (the perils of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie decides mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to start living her lifehelp. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes her wayAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and just like her meticulous study timetableinto a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measuresexploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[You Only Live Once The Starlight Watchmaker by Jess VallanceLauren James|Full Review]]
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===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Brian ConaghanBeth Webb]]===
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''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.'' Bobby Seed's mum Anelise - Annie - has MS been living with her cousin Joe and it's getting worse. Bobbyher aunt, who is seventeenan eminent forensic scientist, shoulders most of since her care. And he also keeps house mum died and also looks after his little brother Dannyher naturalist father went abroad on a research trip. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out other end of each other. Bobby also attends the ringing phone, or at the door when there's a support group for young carersknock - are in her imagination. It's But to foresee a bit daft with all the role play exercises serious accident and then for it to actually happen? And the like, but itdreadful headaches. Something's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as yougoing on. Especially LouLuckily for Annie, the American boy with the weird way of speaking Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the Vespa and the air of coolaccident.. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Brian ConaghanBeth Webb|Full Review]]
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Six girls''Illinois Territory, six boysCollective Homesteads of America. Each '' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in the two separate bays sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of a single spaceshipausterity, among other reasons. They have six minutes each week to seduce Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and to make their choicesresting in trees as children, under the unblinking eye but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the on-board cameras. They are small area the contenders Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the Genesis programmeresidents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the worldHills that are behind this, what's craziest speed-dating show evermore. Our hero, Elwyn, aimed at creating has just left the trees for the first human colony on Mars. LeonorHills, to live with an 18 year old orphanuncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, is one of and he has decided to see how the chosen onesother half lives. She This has signed , of course, opened himself up for gloryto no end of prejudicial judgement. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for But what's this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a one-third way ticket. Even if the dream turns to of living, in a nightmarelovely colonial-style mansion, it is too late for regretswhere everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[Ascension The Collective by Victor DixenLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver The Dog Runner by Naomi NovikBren MacDibble]]===
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Miryem comes from Set in a long line dystopian Australia, this is the story of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at Ella and Emery and their dogs travelling across the outback together. A red fungus has wiped out all. Lending freely the crops and rarely collectinggrasses, he leaves and with the family on the edge of povertyfood chain grinding to a halt, until Miryem must step insociety is collapsing. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes Ella's mum has been gone for a person of great interest when long time - she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from left for work one day and then never came home. Ella and her Grandfather half brother Emery have been living at home with their dad and returns it full of goldtheir dogs, hoping for the best, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesbut one day their dad decides to go out and try to find Ella's mum. When he also fails to return, from the dark beings Emery decides that haunt their best chance of survival is to set out with the wood through dogs to a King who's eager travel across the outback to exploit Miryemhis grandfather's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may house where, he believes, there will still be more trouble than they're worth… food and a safe place for them to live until their father can find them again. [[Spinning Silver The Dog Runner by Naomi NovikBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Are Not Okay by Marcus SedgwickNatalia Gomes]]===
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Two hundred years agoSet in a typical American town, bad weather''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, bad company (wellthose of Lucy, the kind that is also madUlana, Trina and dangerous Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to know), sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a spooky reading list and a few chance topics glimpse into each of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her firsttheir lives, but more importantly their minds, and definitely her most famous ever, bookat times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. The narrator of this novel Gomes has brought himself to created a remote Alpine buildingheartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary'Me Too Movement''. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there and doing this for ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the publisher to whom he addresses a lot reader of the script we readimportance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Are Not Okay by Marcus SedgwickNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes Toffee by C G DrewsSarah Crossan]]===
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''What he wants most in the world I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.''
What child would think such ''I am a thing? Beck would think such a thinggirl trying to forget. The son of a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is the servant of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother''s response She is violenta woman trying to remember. But Beck doesn't want to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews|Full Review]]
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Singer Carroll -->
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===[[The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll]]===
===[[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|Dystopian FictionConfident Readers]]
Mhairi Anne Bain Lucy is fourteen years old living in a beautiful, expensive house along with her joking, playful dad and her lovely mum. Everything should be perfect. Her dad is on a property investor, making millions, and she and her way home to the Isle of Arranmum don't lack for anything in their lives. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged still, Lucy lives her life on edge, controlled by climate change the words around her, whether they are spoken, or unspoken. You see, her dad is a bully, edging closer and the mass movement of people closer towards physically abusing her mum, and it Lucy is one defined manipulated by bordershim, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane unable to Heathrow - express her true feelings, or fully develop her artistic side which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you canwhere she feels her talents lie but her dad says won't allow anyone else ever lead to rely on you..her having a successful life. [[The Survival Game Words That Fly Between Us by Nicky SingerSarah Carroll|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Boy Who Lied Check Mates by Kim SlaterStewart Foster]]===
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''None of them believed meIn many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened to my brotherHe is not a problem child but he does have a problem. I wanted His ADHD makes it hard for him to scream at them to listenconcentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. Because, for the first When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truthdark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other.''[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster|Full Review]]
Ed Clayton is a teller of tall stories. He just can't help it - even though he knows and everybody else knows that most of what comes out of his mouth is complete fantasy. It all started when Ed's father was accused of fraud and sent to prison. Then mum's mental health went to pieces. Then, with nobody bringing money into the house, poverty - real, grinding, poverty - set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shaming, so is it any wonder that Ed has become a bit of a Billy Liar, hiding the truth of his home life in the hopes the power of imagination can make it all disappear?[[The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater|Full Review]]<!-- Scmidt Wild-Palmer -->
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===[[Bookish Boyfriends The Tunnels Below by Tiffany SchmidtNadine Wild-Palmer]]===
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Merrilee Campbell Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a book-lover romantic grand day of celebration. Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and real life has never measured upwatching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. Now Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her best friend are starting abandoned in pitch darkness at a new high school where boys and girls mix. Merrilee is sure this is where stop no other train has ever taken her dreams to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will come true find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and she'll find her first proper romanceacquaintance, or even meet a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the love nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her life just like and find her parents. But just like in way back to the books family she loves, this doesn't go quite to plan. When left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her English teacher assigns them Romeo and Juliet to read, Merrilee's life starts taking quite a novel turn. their evil reign? [[Bookish Boyfriends The Tunnels Below by Tiffany SchmidtNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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