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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.
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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.
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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.
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{| styleclass-"wikitable" cellpadding="vertical15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every day. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake|Full Review]]><!-- Williamson Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->
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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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===[[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
[[image| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align:4.5star.jpgleft;''|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|TeensLighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]===
''I believe in love at first sight[[image:3. Fate5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], the universe[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.''[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
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'What If It's Us'' m halfway between, and likewise the old adage is one halfway true. From the cover of those books that just gives you this I had a boost when you need it. A feel goodchild-friendly fantasy, fun what with that name and easy readthat attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. I That was surprised at only built on by the collaboration initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of Silvera scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and Albertalli – one known for happy endingsmore characters, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character both human and their voices are so distinctanimal, so realand more and more flashbacks, and no proof that you are immediately sucked this was what I'd bought in. for? [[What if It's Us Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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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?'' [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]===
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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a lot collection of time indoors by himself. This worries his motherpoems that are all unique, who has engaged a therapist whether in relation to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issuestheir style, length or theme. EvanThe collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 's therapist assigns him grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the task anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing , ranging from a daily letter to himself as quote by a way of getting Evan Nigerian playwright, to think more constructively about himself and the world around himAfrican proverbs. But Connor Murphy, This provides a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and gets nice introduction to the wrong end of section before you are immersed into the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has a crush on clearly put her heart and who is Connor's sistersoul into. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Val EmmichSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]Rose, [[:Category:Teens|TeensInterrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===
Raised in a small village surrounded by woodland on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have lived a sheltered life - although there are whispers 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 is about to drastically change. Before their parents leave, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as a child are in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn in to a bear and her Mami in to a swan. Liba must carry this secret in order to help protect her sister, but the arrival of a mysterious group of men in 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 and they soon realise that their new-found magical heritage may be what saves them[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Wilson Gregory -->
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===[[Snowglobe I Hold Your Heart by Amy WilsonKaren Gregory]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.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]]
Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Weymouth Filby -->
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===[[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 Evil Occupants 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="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Easingdale Castle by Katherine WebberRay Filby]]===
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Though itJason likes chess. He's been 5 years since Mika diedpretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14with level ten being Grand Master level. ItHe's something that brings her comfortalso good at systems, but also a constant reminder having contributed to the relational database that she has to make up for being one when there should have been twostreamlined his school's administration. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, he presents her with an escape. From her familyis very big on technology and its head, her friendsMr Johnston, the grief and loss that continue is keen to scar them allinvolve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Seth Liz is instantly smitten great with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love hardware and helped with the escape that he represents from her grief, itschool's not so clear that she's falling in love with himcard reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Katherine WebberRay Filby|Full Review]]
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===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]===
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[[image:4starThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|TeensFull Review]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Darnton Webb -->
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===[[The Truth About Lies Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Tracy DarntonBeth Webb]]===
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Jess is in Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a meeting with Dr Harrisonresearch trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the school counsellordoor when there's a knock - are in her imagination. Dr Harrison is hoping But to help Jess come foresee a serious accident and then for it to terms with actually happen? And the death of her room-mate, Hannadreadful headaches. But heSomething's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feelsgoing on. InsteadLuckily for Annie, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he Joe is satisfied convinced and she gets out of there as quickly as possiblealso willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident... [[The Truth About Lies Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Tracy DarntonBeth Webb|Full Review]]
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Reeling from ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, 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 small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a tragedy pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and unable learn their ways – he's just of age to copedecide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives. This has, of course, unemployed actor Arlo decides opened himself up to get on no end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a plane lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and go somewhere newshines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[Colour Me In The Collective by Lydia RufflesLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once The Dog Runner by Jess VallanceBren MacDibble]]===
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Gracie Dart is Set in a studiousdystopian Australia, responsible student with a colour coded timetable this is the story of Ella and Emery and French verbs covering her wallstheir dogs travelling across the outback together. She's hardworking A red fungus has wiped out all the crops and smart but once her final school exams are overgrasses, Gracie has and with the food chain grinding to a revelationhalt, society is collapsing. After she mistakenly thinks she Ella's contracted mum has been gone for a fatal illness (long time - she left for work one day and then never came home. Ella and her half brother Emery have been living at home with their dad and their dogs, hoping for the perils of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie best, but one day their dad decides to start living her lifego out and try to find Ella's mum. Her studies are finished for When he also fails to return, Emery decides that their best chance of survival is to set out with the summer so Gracie wants dogs to say yes travel across the outback to every opportunity that comes her wayhis grandfather's house where, he believes, there will still be food and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measuresa safe place for them to live until their father can find them again. [[You Only Live Once The Dog Runner by Jess VallanceBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island We Are Not Okay by M A BennettNatalia Gomes]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic Set in a typical American town, ''Lord of the FliesWe Are Not Okay'': a group tells the story of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a deserted islandgirl in today's society. Link The novel is a fish out told from four different perspectives, those of waterLucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. Newly arrived from America, he The reader is finding it hard to settle presented with a glimpse into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind each of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in yearstheir lives, but more importantly their minds, he immediately becomes and at times the butt thoughts of every school jokethose characters could have been taken directly from my own. And some students Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are determined becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to make his life more miserable than others.the ''Me Too Movement''.''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[The Island We Are Not Okay by M A BennettNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers Toffee by Brian ConaghanSarah Crossan]]===
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''Funny how no one ever uses the word I am not who I say I am,''love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simpleMarla isn't who she thinks she is.''
Bobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worseI am a girl trying to forget. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, 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 ''She is a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each otherwoman trying to remember. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|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]]<!-- Dixen Carroll -->
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Six girlsLucy is living in a beautiful, expensive house along with her joking, six boysplayful dad and her lovely mum. Everything should be perfect. Each in the two separate bays of Her dad is a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce property investor, making millions, and she and to make her mum don't lack for anything in their choiceslives. But still, under the unblinking eye of the Lucy lives her life on-board cameras. They are edge, controlled by the contenders in the Genesis programmewords around her, the world's craziest speed-dating show everwhether they are spoken, aimed at creating the first human colony on Marsor unspoken. Leonor You see, an 18 year old orphanher dad is a bully, edging closer and closer towards physically abusing her mum, and Lucy is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns manipulated by him, unable to a nightmareexpress her true feelings, it or fully develop her artistic side which is too late for regretswhere she feels her talents lie but her dad says won't ever lead to her having a successful life. [[Ascension The Words That Fly Between Us by Victor DixenSarah Carroll|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Check Mates by Naomi NovikStewart Foster]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik|Full Review]] <!-- Sedgwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788542304.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542304/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. 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 the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we read. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]] <!-- Drews Wild-Palmer -->
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===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews]]=== [[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]  ''What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.'' What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thing. 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 is violent. 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]] <!-- Singer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444944525.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444944525/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]  Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - 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 can't allow anyone else to rely on you... [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer|Full Review]] <!-- Slater -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509842306.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509842306/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:TeensFantasy|TeensFantasy]] ''None of them believed me. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened to my brother. I wanted to scream at them to listen. Because, for the first time in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truth.''
Ed Clayton is a teller of tall storiesMeet Cecilia. He just can It't help it - even though he knows s her twelfth birthday, and everybody else knows after a scene that most of what comes 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 grand day of his mouth celebration. Cecilia is complete fantasytoting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. It all started when Ed's father was accused of fraud Mind the gap. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and sent the train promptly hares off to prison. Then mumleave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's mental health went to pieces. Thenthe outskirts, with nobody bringing money into the houseCecilia will find, poverty of a strange society of English- realspeaking humanised animals, grindingand her first acquaintance, poverty a fox- set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shamingman, so is it any wonder will tell her that Ed has become a bit all talk of a Billy Liarworld above, hiding with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the truth nonsense gibberish of his home life people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the family she left behind – or will the hopes dark leaders from the power of imagination can make it all disappearresident crow family subject her to their evil reign?[[The Boy Who Lied Tunnels Below by Kim SlaterNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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