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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" <!-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, 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. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Check Mates by Stewart Foster|Full Review]]INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Wild-Palmer Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->
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===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Tunnels Below Graphic Novel by Nadine Wild-PalmerMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]===
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Meet CeciliaThe 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 the age of eighteen. ItFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her inherited from his murdered parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set he wants to go out for a grand day of celebrationdo charitable deeds. Cecilia is toting But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a largecriminal, silvered ball that her younger sister found he goes too far as far as a present, but ends up dropping itthe authorities are concerned, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into gets given the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the gaphome for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – 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 the outskirts, Cecilia will findNightwalkers, of a strange society of Englishgang who steal any ten-speaking humanised animalsfigure bank account contents they can, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as murder the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their originsowner. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her he get close to one of them and find her way back to get the family she left behind – truth of their schemes, or will the dark leaders from manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the resident crow family subject her to their evil reignyoung do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Tunnels Below Graphic Novel by Nadine Wild-PalmerMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]]
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'In m halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a sealedchild-off cityfriendly fantasy, a young woman, Lena, is running what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for her lifean attractive water plant. She has been sentenced to death and her That was only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non- those with magicstandard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. 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? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]] <!-- Paige Tamaki and Pugh -->
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===[[MeraHarley Quinn: Tidebreaker Breaking Glass by Danielle Paige Mariko Tamaki and Stephen ByrneSteve Pugh]]===
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Meet MeraHarleen Quinzel is new in town. 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 fatheralways, the king of Xebelto me, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man seems new in an arranged marriage as her future – after alltown, Meraeven if she's motherbeen around a long time, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at allfor she always has a very fresh attitude, and is in fact trying seems to get Xebel look out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean mastersthose large eyes at everything anew each time. So when But here she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humansis new in town, and kill the Atlantis heirtown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she rushes off to get the quest (finds her gran dead and the promised throne) all for herselfwith no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. But of courseShe also finds school is a drag, she has no idea what kind of person also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will meethave a big impact on her life. 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 how hard it will be to get the job done… chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[MeraHarley Quinn: Tidebreaker Breaking Glass by Danielle Paige Mariko Tamaki and Stephen ByrneSteve Pugh|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Invisible Things Some Places More Than Others by Orlagh CollinsRenee 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'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]]
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 Thakur -->
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Alyssa SheinmelSophia 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'They needed someone to blame, 'break'and I was 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the only available scapegoatfoundations that the anthology is built on. Their daughter was my best friendEach section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. Playing This provides a nice introduction to the scapegoat was section before you are immersed into the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe heart and lived a life of luxurysoul into. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Alyssa SheinmelSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts Rose, Interrupted by Sara BarnardPatrice Lawrence]]===
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It's two years since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy Rose and a stint her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with a lovely foster familytheir mother. And now she's eighteen While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and must leave Rudder are trying to navigate the Looked After systemworldly world. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. SheIt's found herself a job, a bedsit has been rented, not easy when everything is new and she's about to return to Brighton, the only place sherigid rules you's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friendsve always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts Rose, Interrupted by Sara BarnardPatrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Owen Gregory -->
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===[[All the Lonely People by David Owen]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|TeensI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===
Kat and Wesley are both loners, looking for places to fit in[[image:4. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feminist, an activist, someone who isn't scared to speak out5star. Wesley's desire to feel a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowd. Bullies, trolls, extremists. When he pulls the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete her entire online presence. Bereft of everything that represented her identity, Kat's physical self starts to fade as well. As the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with a choicejpg|link=Category: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop them. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[All the Lonely People by David Owen: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]]<!-- Dylan Filby -->
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.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 The Evil Occupants 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]] <!-- Landman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128510.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128510/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[One Shot by Tanya Landman]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Pa and I understood each other. 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 scandalous. [[One Shot by Tanya Landman|Full Review]] <!-- Kemmerer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408884615.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884615/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely 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]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones]]===
[[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:Confident ReadersThe Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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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===[[A Pinch of Magic The Starlight Watchmaker by Michelle HarrisonLauren James]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone[[image:4star. If we dojpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], we'll die by the next sunset. ''[[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – BettyThis is a dyslexia-friendly, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the isle tale of CrowstoneHugo, infamous for its surrounding marshes an unwanted and the neighbouring inescapable prisonrather lonely android, who makes a living for their entire liveshimself mending time-travel watches. The middle sisterWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, BettyHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, 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 only too ready to offerhelp. But in setting An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out to do just that, she of his drab attic workroom and her sisters discover into a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestorsscary adventure with some amazing new friends, 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 exploring regions of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key planet never before known to their problemexist. [[A Pinch of Magic The Starlight Watchmaker by Michelle HarrisonLauren James|Full Review]]
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===[[Lark Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Anthony McGowanBeth Webb]]===
[[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 Anelise - again Annie - for Nicky has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and his learning-disabled brother Kennyher naturalist father went abroad on a research trip. Their mum is coming to visit So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the mum who abandoned them door when there's a long time agoknock - are in her imagination. They haven't seen her But to foresee a serious accident and then for years and it to actually happen? And the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelingsdreadful headaches. And NickySomething's girlfriend has ended thingsgoing on. To take their minds off it allLuckily for Annie, Nicky Joe is convinced and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moorsalso willing to help. But it doesn't go So they start to plan and an investigate the accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger... [[Lark Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Anthony McGowanBeth Webb|Full Review]]
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew :Category:Teens|Teens]]===
[[image:5star''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 Hills, to live with an uncle and learn 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[:Category:TeensThe Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|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 Macdibble -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns The Dog Runner by Kendare BlakeBren MacDibble]]===
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''You cannot put on Set in a costume dystopian Australia, this is the story of Ella and become something elseEmery and their dogs travelling across the outback together. You are A red fungus has wiped out all the crops and grasses, and with the food chain grinding to a queen of Fennbirn islandhalt, society is collapsing. Ella''s mum has been gone for a long time - she left for work one day and then never came home. Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] Ella and her half brother Emery have been living at home with their dad and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]]their dogs, in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of hoping for the Goddess' daughters have best, but one day their own battles dad decides to go out and try to fightfind Ella's mum. All her life When he also fails to return, Katharine has dreamed Emery decides that their best chance of being survival is to set out with the great Queen dogs to travel across the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown thoughoutback to his grandfather's house where, he believes, she is facing trial after difficult trial there will still be food and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every daya safe place for them to live until their father can find them again. 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 The Dog Runner by Kendare BlakeBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche We Are Not Okay by Lisa WilliamsonNatalia Gomes]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at Set in a typical American town, ''We Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought on by high school trying to pass under the radarand growing up as a girl in today's society. She doesn't want anyone to notice herThe novel is told from four different perspectives, because then they might start asking questionsthose of Lucy, or they might want to be friendsUlana, Trina and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to her housesworn enemies. You see, Ro's mum The reader is presented with a hoarderglimpse into each of their lives, and but more importantly their whole houseminds, with and at times the exception thoughts of Ro's bedroom, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and paperrelevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, and Ro lives particularly in fear relation to the ''Me Too Movement''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of social services finding out and taking her awaythe importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[Paper Avalanche We Are Not Okay by Lisa WilliamsonNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver]]===
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''This is the problem with words and even stories: there is never one truth''
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]]
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''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 I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads woman trying to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secretremember. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?''
Of course he can! 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? [[ Blue Sky Black Toffee by John Connors Sarah Crossan|Full Review]] <!-- Emmich Carroll -->
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===[[The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val EmmichCategory:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]===
[[image:4Lucy is living in a beautiful, expensive house along with her joking, playful dad and her lovely mum.5star Everything should be perfect.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends Her dad is a lot of time indoors by himselfproperty investor, making millions, and she and her mum don't lack for anything in their lives. This worries his mother But still, Lucy lives her life on edge, 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 controlled by the world words around himher, whether they are spoken, or unspoken. But Connor Murphy You see, her dad is a rather scary boy at schoolbully, finds one of Evan's letters edging closer and gets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoecloser towards physically abusing her mum, the girl he has a crush on and who Lucy is manipulated by him, unable to express her true feelings, or fully develop her artistic side which is Connorwhere she feels her talents lie but her dad says won's sistert ever lead to her having a successful life. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel Words That Fly Between Us by Val EmmichSarah Carroll|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Check Mates by Rena RossnerStewart Foster]]===
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Raised In many ways Felix is a typical boy in a small village surrounded by woodland Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have lived a sheltered life - although there are whispers of troubling times ahead for Jewsweekend. When their grandfather takes ill, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbed, but life for Liba and Laya However Felix is about to drastically changestruggling at school. Before their parents leave, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as He is not a problem child are in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn in to but he does have a bear and her Mami in to a swanproblem. Liba must carry this secret in order His ADHD makes it hard for him to help protect her sisterconcentrate, but the arrival of a mysterious group of men in the village carries he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more danger as Laya time with his grandfather Felix is dragged under their spellhorrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. Both sisters must stick together if they are All he wants to survive what do is happening around them sit in the dark and they soon realise play chess. Felix knows that their new-found magical heritage may this will be what saves themextremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Check Mates by Rena RossnerStewart Foster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer]]===
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[[image:4starMeet Cecilia.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It's her twelfth birthday, and after a scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jago doesn't like Clementinethe whole family is set to go out for a grand day of celebration. He knows there Cecilia is something different about toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and he doesn't like watching it as itrolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. And he never lets her forget Back in the train with it. Clementine knows shefinds 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 different toothe outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that the difference all talk of a world above, with suns and fields and fresh air, is magic. And pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much as and forgotten their origins. Can she tries survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back 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 the family she left behind – or will the dark leaders from school. the resident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[Snowglobe The Tunnels Below by Amy WilsonNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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