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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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Meet Mera. She's the latest in The young man called Bruce Wayne is a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for very noticeable one only they – he can see for themselves. Her fatherhardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, the king of Xebelpaparazzi, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future suchlike – after all, Merareminding him he's mother, a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the territorylegacy he's warrior queeninherited from his murdered parents, is long deadhe wants to do charitable deeds. Mera doesn't fancy But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the cosseting or the fella involved at allauthorities are concerned, and is gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, home for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean mastersviolent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the world of us airNightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-breathing humansfigure bank account contents they can, and kill murder the Atlantis heir, she rushes off owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But truth of coursetheir schemes, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it or will the manipulative Madeleine be to get a step too far for the job done… young do-gooder? [[MeraBatman: Tidebreaker Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Danielle Paige Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Stephen ByrneChris Wildgoose|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starThe 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. 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]]
 Vetty, her dad, and her little sister are about to move back to London and Vetty can't wait. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since the death of Vetty's mother several years ago. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, it's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly, is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable - spending all their time together and knowing each other inside out, without the need for words. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings of difference get ever stronger... [[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins|Full Review]]<!-- Schienmel Tamaki and Pugh -->
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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she''They needed someone s been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to blamelook out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and I was the only available scapegoattown is Gotham City. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen Expecting a year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so -long furlough from life with her parents tell mother, she finds hergran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She has dined in fancy restaurantsalso finds school is a drag, explored she also finds the most sophisticated corners of the globe whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and lived uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life of luxury. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[A Danger to Herself Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Others by Alyssa SheinmelSteve Pugh|Full Review]]
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[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]]
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 Thakur -->
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===[[All the Lonely People Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by David OwenSophia Thakur]]===
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Kat and Wesley Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are both lonersall unique, looking for places whether in relation to fit intheir style, length or theme. Kat finds this with online communitiesThe collection is split into four sections, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feministtitled 'grow', an activist'wait', someone who isn't scared to speak out. Wesleybreak'and 'grow again's desire to feel , guiding you through a sense process which is one of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowd. Bullies, trolls, extremists. When he pulls the final trigger foundations that the anthology is built on . Each section begins with a violentforegrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, targeted online bullying campaignranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, Kat is forced to delete her entire online presenceAfrican proverbs. Bereft of everything that represented her identity, Kat's physical self starts This provides a nice introduction to fade as well. As the entire world slowly forgets section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with a choice: get sucked further Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop them. [[All the Lonely People Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by David OwenSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If soRose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, read along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on! Charlie is on a school triptheir tiny flat, skiing in Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the Austrian mountainsworldly world. HeIt's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation easy when everything is new and hethe rigid rules you's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off ve always lived 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 themare suddenly missing. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) Rose, Interrupted by Gabriel Dylan Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]   <!-- Landman Gregory -->
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===[[One Shot by Tanya Landman]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===
''Pa and I understood each other[[image:4. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, 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 scandalous5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[One Shot by Tanya Landman:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
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]]<!-- Kemmerer Filby -->
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===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Brigid KemmererRay Filby]]===
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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]]
<!Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too -a 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 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- Julia Jones -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1899262393enhancing apps.jpg|link=http://wwwAnd Bill is a talented programmer.amazon.co.uk/dp/1899262393/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]
 | 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 James -->
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''No Widdershins girl has ever been able 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-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to leave Crowstonebe solved, and is only too ready to help. If we doAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, we'll die by exploring regions of the next sunsetplanet never before known to exist. ''[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]]
''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]] <!-- McGowan Webb -->
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[[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]] <!-- Carthew -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408868601.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408868601/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew ]]===
[[image:5starAnelise - 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 on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Disbelieved:Category:TeensSkin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb|TeensFull Review]]
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 Whitlock -->
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''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of Fennbirn islandAmerica.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] 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 its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]]resting in trees as children, but farming in ''Two Dark Reigns'' 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 GoddessForesters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It' daughters have their own battles to fights probably the Hills that are behind this, what's more. All her life Our hero, Elwyn, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen just left the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won trees for the crown thoughHills, she is facing trial after difficult trial to live with an uncle and murmurs learn their ways – he's just of dissent age to decide things for himself, and revolution grow louder on he has decided to see how the streets each and every dayother half lives. And without evidence This has, of her sisterscourse, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what' death 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 anyone but herself it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queenmore hopeful life? [[Two Dark Reigns The Collective by Kendare BlakeLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under Set in a dystopian Australia, this is the story of Ella and Emery and their dogs travelling across the radaroutback together. She doesn't want anyone to notice herA red fungus has wiped out all the crops and grasses, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want and with the food chain grinding to be friendsa halt, and she cansociety is collapsing. Ella't have any friends because s mum has been gone for a long time - she can't ever have anyone come over to her houseleft for work one day and then never came home. You seeElla and her half brother Emery have been living at home with their dad and their dogs, hoping for the best, Robut one day their dad decides to go out and try to find Ella's mum is a hoarder. When he also fails to return, and Emery decides that their whole house, best chance of survival is to set out with the exception of Rodogs to travel across the outback to his grandfather's bedroomhouse where, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paperhe believes, there will still be food and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her awaya safe place for them to live until their father can find them again. [[Paper Avalanche The Dog Runner by Lisa WilliamsonBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[What if It's Us We Are Not Okay by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraNatalia Gomes]]===
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Set in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay''I believe tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in love at first sighttoday's society. The novel is told from four different perspectives, those of Lucy, Ulana, Trina and Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to sworn enemies. FateThe reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and at times the universe, all thoughts of itthose characters could have been taken directly from my own. But not how youGomes has created a heartbreakingly real and relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the ''Me Too Movement''re thinking. I don't mean it in 'We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the our souls were split and youimportance of phrases like ''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.m With Her''. [[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes|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 Crossan -->
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===[[Blue Sky Black Toffee by John ConnorsSarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''When Tom Allenby, the 14 year-old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into the air one night he knows he is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secret. 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 by John Connors |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 -->|-| 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:Teens|Teens]] 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. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: 1509885803.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509885803/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
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Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her I am a girl trying to forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference ' ''She is magic. And as much as she tries a woman trying to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting strongerremember. 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]]
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]]<!-- Weymouth Carroll -->
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===[[The Light Words That Fly Between Worlds Us by Laura WeymouthSarah Carroll]]===
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Five years ago EvelynLucy is living in a beautiful, expensive house along with her joking, Philippa playful dad and James Hapwell escaped to the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of Londonher lovely mum. Everything should be perfect. In the terrifying darkness waiting Her dad is a property investor, making millions, and she and her mum don't lack for anything in their parents to join themlives. But still, Lucy lives her life on edge, Evelyn prayed to be anywhere else. A plea that was answered controlled by The Woodlandsthe words around her, whether they are spoken, or unspoken. One moment in grey London You see, her dad is a bully, edging closer and closer towards physically abusing her mum, and the next surrounded Lucy is manipulated by a rich green foresthim, the three children were transported from one world trapped in warunable to express her true feelings, or fully develop her artistic side which is where she feels her talents lie but her dad says won't ever lead to another on the brink of its ownher having a successful life. [[The Light Words That Fly Between Worlds Us by Laura WeymouthSarah Carroll|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Check Mates by Katherine WebberStewart Foster]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika diedIn many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, Reiko still sees enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. It's something that brings her comfort, He is not a problem child but also he does have a constant reminder that she has to make up problem. His ADHD makes it hard for being one when there should have been two. She has him to shine bright enough for both of themconcentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When she befriends outsider Seth, his Mum suggests that he presents her spends more time with an escapehis grandfather Felix is horrified. From her family, her friends, the grief Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and loss that continue more eccentric than before. All he wants to scar them all. Seth do is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls sit in love with the escape dark and play chess. Felix knows that he represents from her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with himthis will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Check Mates by Katherine WebberStewart Foster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller Meet Cecilia. It's her twelfth birthday, and after a leecher 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 futuristic kind grand day of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workerscelebration. The higher Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up in the city you livedropping it, the more sunlight you see and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the easier your lifevery Underground carriage they had just left. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below Mind the surface, life is toughgap. But Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and the help train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of the hacking program Phantoma world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, invented by legendary antiis pooh-corps hacker poohed as the Moth, Nova nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can sneak up throw at her and find her way back to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. vfamily she left behind – or will the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[Phantom The Tunnels Below by Leo HuntNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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