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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.
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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" <!--align: top; textINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-align: left;"|===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]><!-- Schienmel Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->
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''They needed someone to blameThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and I was suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the only available scapegoatage of eighteen. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under Feeling rather stuck with the circumstances.'legacy he' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her s inherited from his murdered parents tell her, he wants to do charitable deeds. She has dined But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in fancy restaurantspursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, explored and gets given the most sophisticated corners unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the globe Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and lived get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a life of luxury. step too far for the young do-gooder? [[A Danger to Herself Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Others by Alyssa SheinmelChris Wildgoose|Full Review]]
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[[image:4The 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 had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant.5star That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[:Category:TeensLighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|TeensFull Review]]
It's two years since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy and a stint with a lovely foster family. And now she's eighteen and must leave the Looked After system. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. She's found herself a job, a bedsit has been rented, and she's about to return to Brighton, the only place she's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friends. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]<!-- Owen Tamaki and Pugh -->
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Kat and Wesley are both lonersHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, looking for places to fit me, seems new in. Kat finds this with online communitiestown, where even if she feels like 's been around a long time, for she can be her true self - always has a feministvery fresh attitude, an activist, someone who isn't scared and seems to speak look outof those large eyes at everything anew each time. Wesley's desire to feel a sense of belonging sees him fall But here she is new in with an altogether nastier crowd. Bulliestown, trolls, extremists. When he pulls and the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat town is forced to delete her entire online presenceGotham City. Bereft of everything that represented Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her identitymother, Kat's physical self starts she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to fade as wellstay with a bunch of drag queens. As She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the entire world slowly forgets whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that Kat ever existedwill have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only Wesley seems to remember the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced meets at night – a lad with a choice: get sucked further into singular graffiti tag and a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop them. mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[All the Lonely People Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by David OwenMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]]
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) Some Places More Than Others by Gabriel DylanRenee Watson]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on! Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]]
Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[One Shot Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Tanya LandmanSophia Thakur]]===
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Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of 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'Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'grow again' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her familyguiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. She was the only one Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of three children who looked like himwriting, and none of the others acted like himranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, and certainly his wife didn't seem to fully understand himAfrican proverbs. Maggie might as well be reliving This provides a nice introduction to the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and mother eloquent poems that are fully against Thakur has clearly put her. But at least she can sneak out at night, heart and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandaloussoul into. [[One Shot Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Tanya LandmanSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely Rose, Interrupted by Brigid KemmererPatrice Lawrence]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own. Her mother has cancer and not long to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with him. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer|Full Review]]  <!-- Julia Jones -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1899262393.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1899262393/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones|Full Review]] <!-- Michelle Harrison --> |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471124290.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471124290/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. '' ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- McGowan Gregory -->
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===[[Lark I Hold Your Heart by Anthony McGowanKaren Gregory]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. [[Lark by Anthony McGowan|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]]<!-- Carthew Filby -->
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[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Kel Crow lives with a heart defect that could kill her at any time. Her only hope is to escape the floodridden, waterlogged Cornish world she lives in, to leave her drug-running family far behind, and get to America with enough money for an operation. She has a plan: stowaway on a ship, kidnap a rich girl, exchange the girl for enough money for the journey to America and the surgery that will change her life. [[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew |Full Review]]<!-- Blake -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509876499.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509876499/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake]]===
[[image:4Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level.5starHe's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to 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 flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[:Category:FantasyThe Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|FantasyFull Review]]
''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 James -->
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Ro Snow spends her This 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 at school trying to pass under the radar-travel watches. She doesn't want anyone to notice herWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want Hugo realises there is a mystery to be friendssolved, and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over is only too ready to her househelp. You see, Ro's mum is a hoarder, and their whole house, with the exception An exciting journey of Ro's bedroomdiscovery unfolds, is an ever-growing mound which takes Hugo out of rubbish his drab attic workroom and paperinto a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, and Ro lives in fear exploring regions of social services finding out and taking her awaythe planet never before known to exist. [[Paper Avalanche The Starlight Watchmaker by Lisa WilliamsonLauren James|Full Review]]
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===[[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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''I believe in love at first sight[[image:4. Fate, the universe, all of it5star. 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.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''What If ItAnelise - 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 research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's Us'' is one on the other end of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel goodthe ringing phone, fun and easy read. I was surprised or at the collaboration of Silvera door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and Albertalli – one known then for happy endings, it to actually happen? And the other dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for tragedy – but Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they really work together wellstart to investigate the accident.. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraBeth Webb|Full Review]]
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''This 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 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 problem Hills, to live with words an uncle and even stories: there is never one truthlearn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives. This has, of course, opened himself up to 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 lovely colonial-style mansion, where 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? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|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 Macdibble -->
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===[[The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble]]===
===[[Blue Sky Black by John Connors]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''When Tom AllenbySet in a dystopian Australia, this is the story of Ella and Emery and their dogs travelling across the 14 year-old boy who can control outback together. A red fungus has wiped out all the elementscrops and grasses, sees metal objects and cars rising into with the air one night he knows he food chain grinding to a halt, society is facing collapsing. Ella's mum has been gone for a powerful enemylong 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 best, but one day their dad decides to go out and try to find Ella's mum. The trail leads When he also fails to stolen magnetic stonesreturn, sinister experiments in an old country Emery decides that their best chance of survival is to set out with the dogs to travel across the outback to his grandfather's house where, he believes, there will still be food and a village hiding a secret. As each of his friends faces challenges of safe place for them to live until their own, father can Tom fight a force which knows all about find them?''again. [[The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble|Full Review]]
Of course he can! [[ Blue Sky Black by John Connors |Full Review]]
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===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]===
===[[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:035651143X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/035651143X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]]
Raised Set in a small village surrounded by woodland on typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the border story of Moldova four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and Ukrainegrowing up as a girl in today's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, sisters Liba those of Lucy, Ulana, Trina and Laya have lived Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. The reader is presented with a sheltered life - although there are whispers glimpse into each of troubling times ahead for Jews. When their grandfather takes illlives, but more importantly their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbedminds, but life for Liba and Laya is about to drastically changeat times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Before their parents leave, Liba discovers Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that the fairy tales she heard as a child focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn our society, particularly in relation to a bear and her Mami in to a swanthe ''Me Too Movement''. Liba must carry this secret in order to help protect her sister, but ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the arrival reader of a mysterious group the importance 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 themphrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood We Are Not Okay by Rena RossnerNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Snowglobe Toffee by Amy WilsonSarah Crossan]]=== [[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]] 
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Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped ''I am a girl trying 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 elseforget. '' A plea that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment in grey London and the next surrounded by ''She is a rich green forest, the three children were transported from one world trapped in war, woman trying to another on the brink of its ownremember. [[The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth|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]]<!-- Webber Carroll -->
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart The Words That Fly Between Us by Katherine WebberSarah Carroll]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika diedLucy is living in a beautiful, Reiko still sees the ghost of expensive house along with her sister every dayjoking, forever 14playful dad and her lovely mum. Everything should be perfect. It's something that brings her comfort Her dad is a property investor, making millions, but also a constant reminder that and she has to make up and her mum don't lack for being one when there should have been twoanything in their lives. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth But still, Lucy lives her life on edge, he presents controlled by the words around her with an escape, whether they are spoken, or unspoken. From You see, her familydad is a bully, edging closer and closer towards physically abusing her friendsmum, the grief and loss that continue Lucy is manipulated by him, unable to scar them all. Seth express her true feelings, or fully develop her artistic side which is instantly smitten with where she feels her talents lie but her. After all, who wouldndad says won't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from ever lead to her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with himhaving a successful life. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart The Words That Fly Between Us by Katherine WebberSarah Carroll|Full Review]]
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===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova In many ways Felix is an undercity dweller 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. He is not a leecher - problem child but he does have a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to steal byts from hapless corps workersconcentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. 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. The higher up All he wants to do is sit in the city you live, the more sunlight you see dark and the easier your lifeplay chess. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is toughFelix knows that this will be extremely boring. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to the city, leech some byts and at least make rentperhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. v[[Phantom Check Mates by Leo HuntStewart Foster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]===
===[[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Jess is in Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a meeting with Dr Harrisonscene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison whole family is hoping set to help Jess come to terms with the death go out for a grand day of celebration. Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her room-mateyounger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, Hannaand watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. But he Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's not having much successthe outskirts, Cecilia will find, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Insteada strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, she feigns a grief she does not feel so fox-man, will tell her that he all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is satisfied pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she gets out of there as quickly as possible. survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the family she left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[The Truth About Lies Tunnels Below by Tracy DarntonNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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