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|author=Tanya Landman
|title=Jane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.
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|author=Mary H.K. Choi
|title=Permanent Record
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.
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|author= Alexandra Christo
|title= Into the Crooked Place
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= In a world thriving with black magic, four young crooks embark on a quest to take down their criminal leader after they discover the plot behind his dangerous new magic.
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{| styleclass-"wikitable" cellpadding="vertical15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] 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 and growing up as a girl in today'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. The reader is presented with a glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and at times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Gomes 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''. ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like ''I'm With Her''. [[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes|Full Review]] ><!-- Crossan Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->
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''I am not who I say I amThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi,'' ''and Marla isnsuchlike – reminding him he't who she thinks she iss a billionaire at the age of eighteen. '' Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he''I am a girl trying s inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to forgetdo charitable deeds.'' ''She 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 authorities are concerned, and gets given the most 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 Nightwalkers, a woman trying gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to remember.''one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|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]]<!-- Carroll Maxwell N Andrews -->
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Lucy The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is living in something I put on a beautiful, expensive house along par with her jokingcomments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, playful dad and her lovely mumlikewise the old adage is halfway true. Everything should be perfect. Her dad is From the cover of this I had a property investor, making millionschild-friendly fantasy, what with that name and she and her mum don't lack that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for anything in their livesan attractive water plant. But still, Lucy lives her life That was only built on edge, controlled by the words around herinitial fictionalised quotes, whether they are spokenwith their non-standard spelling, or unspokenas if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. You see, her dad is a bully, edging closer But why was I two chapters in and closer towards physically abusing her mum, just finding more and Lucy is manipulated by him, unable 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 her having a successful life. [[The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll|Full Review]] <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471172236.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471172236/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]more characters, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 both human 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 concentrateanimal, 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 flashbacks, and play chess. Felix knows no proof 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. was what I'd bought in for? [[Check Mates Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Stewart FosterMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Meet CeciliaHarleen Quinzel is new in town. ItShe always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's her twelfth birthdaybeen around a long time, and after for she always has a scene that shows her parents to be wackyvery fresh attitude, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set seems to go look out for a grand day of celebrationthose large eyes at everything anew each time. Cecilia But here she is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping itnew in town, and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just lefttown is Gotham City. Mind the gap. Back in the train Expecting a year-long furlough from life with it her mother, she finds she is alone – her gran dead and the train promptly hares off herself with no option but to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at stay with a stop no other train has ever taken her to… bunch of drag queens. It's She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the outskirts, Cecilia whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will find, of have a strange society of English-speaking humanised animals, and big impact on her first acquaintance, life. One is a foxcivil-manminded lass called Ivy, will tell her that all talk of the other someone she only meets at night – a world above, lad with suns a singular graffiti tag and fields a mind for violence and fresh airchaos, is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their origins. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her 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? calls himself The Joker… [[The Tunnels Below Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Nadine Wild-PalmerMariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are Blood And Thunder Some Places More Than Others by Kesia LupoRenee Watson]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''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 Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a cryptling 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 low caste individual living school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in the city of Duke's Forestand off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[We Are Blood And Thunder Some Places More Than Others by Kesia LupoRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneSophia Thakur]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic NovelsAnthologies|Graphic NovelsAnthologies]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Meet Mera. SheSophia Thakur's the latest in debut anthology is a line collection of young women intent on fighting against poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselvesstyle, length or theme. Her fatherThe collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow', the king of Xebel'wait', sees some cotton wool 'break'and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territorygrow again's warrior queen, guiding you through a process which is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy one of the cosseting or foundations that the fella involved at allanthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out ranging from under the cosh of Atlantean powera quote by a Nigerian playwright, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean mastersto African proverbs. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes This provides a nice introduction to the world of us air-breathing humans, section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and the promised throne) all for herselfsoul into. 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 Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Invisible Things Rose, Interrupted by Orlagh CollinsPatrice Lawrence]]===
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VettyRose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, her dadalong with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and her little sister Rudder are about trying to move back to London and Vetty can't wait. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since navigate the death of Vetty's mother several years agoworldly world. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, itIt's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly, not easy when everything is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable - spending all their time together new and knowing each other inside out, without the need for wordsrigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings of difference get ever stronger... [[All the Invisible Things Rose, Interrupted by Orlagh CollinsPatrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Schienmel Gregory -->
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===
''They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat[[image:4. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxury5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel: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]]<!-- Barnard Filby -->
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Sara BarnardRay Filby]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 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-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|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 James -->
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===[[All the Lonely People The Starlight Watchmaker by David OwenLauren James]]===
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Kat and Wesley are both lonersThis is a dyslexia-friendly, looking science fiction novella for places to fit inyoung adults. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feministIt tells the tale of Hugo, an activistunwanted and rather lonely android, someone who isn't scared to speak out. Wesley's desire to feel makes a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowd. Bullies, trolls, extremistsliving for himself mending time-travel watches. When he pulls the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete her entire online presence. Bereft one of everything his clients demands that represented her identityhis broken watch be mended, Kat's physical self starts Hugo realises there is a mystery to fade as well. As the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existedbe solved, and is only Wesley seems too ready to remember the girl whom he erasedhelp. Wesley is faced with a choice: get sucked further An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to stop themexist. [[All the Lonely People The Starlight Watchmaker by David OwenLauren James|Full Review]]
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Are you up for Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a sleepless night research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's on the other end of the ringing phone, or twoat the door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and then for it to actually happen? If soAnd the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, read on!Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident... [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Landman Whitlock -->
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''Pa 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 I understood living between them too. These two sides hate each other– so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our souls were cut from drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the same clothresidents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what' But Pa s more. Our hero, Elwyn, has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was just left the trees for the only one of three children who looked like himHills, to live with an uncle and none learn their ways – he's just of the others acted like himage to decide things for himself, and certainly his wife didn't seem he has decided to fully understand himsee how the other half lives. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story This has, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at nightof course, and shoot some game opened himself up to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches the very idea Hills he sees a third way of a female shooting thingsliving, when they could be preparing for in a life of unhappy married drudgerylovely colonial-style mansion, is just scandalouswhere 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? [[One Shot The Collective by Tanya LandmanLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Harper's life Set in a dystopian Australia, this is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault story of her ownElla and Emery and their dogs travelling across the outback together. Her mother A red fungus has cancer wiped out all the crops and not long grasses, and with the food chain grinding to livea halt, society is collapsing. Her father Ella's mum has scarpered but not taken his debts with himbeen gone for a long time - she left for work one day and then never came home. And Ella and her half brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonethelessEmery have been living at home with their dad and their dogs, hoping for the best, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One but one day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl their dad decides to go out and intercedes, only try to find herself kidnapped in the girlElla's placemum. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn When he also fails to return, Emery decides that their best chance of survival is to set out with the dogs to travel across the outback to his grandfather't have guessed s house where she was being taken, he believes, there will still be food and a safe place for them to live until their father can find them again... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Dog Runner by Brigid KemmererBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) We Are Not Okay by Julia JonesNatalia Gomes]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
Liam isnSet in a typical American town, 't ''quiteWe Are Not Okay'' tells the story of four teenage girls facing the youngest difficulties brought on by high school and growing up as a girl in today'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. The reader is presented with a large family: he doesn't have glimpse into each of their lives, but more importantly their minds, and at times the distinction thoughts of being the baby anymore those characters could have been taken directly from my own. Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and he doesn't have relevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, particularly in relation to the ''heftMe Too Movement'' of his older brothers and sisters. He's rather like one 'We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part importance 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 shephrases like 'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and LiamI's convinced that itm With Her's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) We Are Not Okay by Julia JonesNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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''Iam not who I say I am,'' 'll warn you first'and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.''
This ''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kennya woman trying to remember. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page.'
Things have got tense at Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to visit find Kelly- Anne, who was the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They havenfirst to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't seen answering her for years phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the impending visit is stirring up a lot garden of uncomfortable feelingswhat looks to be an empty house. And NickyBut the house isn's girlfriend has ended thingst empty. To take their minds off Marla lives in it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day outMarla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, trekking across the moorsToffee. But it And because Allison doesn't go much want to plan be Allison any more and an accident puts both boys because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Lark Toffee by Anthony McGowanSarah Crossan|Full Review]] <!-- Carthew Carroll -->
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===[[The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll]]===
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[[image:5starLucy is living in a beautiful, expensive house along with her joking, playful dad and her lovely mum. Everything should be perfect. Her dad is a property investor, making millions, and she and her mum don't lack for anything in their lives. But still, Lucy lives her life on edge, controlled by the words around her, whether they are spoken, or unspoken. You see, her dad is a bully, edging closer and closer towards physically abusing her mum, and Lucy is manipulated by him, unable 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 her having a successful life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll|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 Foster -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns Check Mates by Kendare BlakeStewart Foster]]===
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''You cannot put 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 costume problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and become something elsehis grades are slipping. You are a queen of Fennbirn islandWhen his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fightdark and play chess. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deservesFelix knows that this will be extremely boring. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and murmurs of dissent perhaps Granddad and revolution grow louder on the streets Felix can help each and every dayother. 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 Check Mates by Kendare BlakeStewart Foster|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche The Tunnels Below by Lisa WilliamsonNadine Wild-Palmer]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under the radarMeet Cecilia. She doesnIt't want anyone to notice s hertwelfth birthday, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want and after a scene that shows her parents to be friendswacky, witty and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to her housego out for a grand day of celebration. You see, Ro's mum Cecilia is toting a hoarderlarge, and their whole housesilvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, with the exception of Ro's bedroombut ends up dropping it, is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking watching it as it rolls right back from her away. [[Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson|Full Review]] <!-- Albertelli -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471176398.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471176398/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left;"|===[[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star Mind the gap.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''I believe Back in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean train with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in the our souls were split and you're my pitch darkness at a stop no other half forever and train has ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.'' ''What If taken her to… It's Us'' is one the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society of those books English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that just gives you all talk of a boost when you need it. A feel goodworld above, with suns and fields and fresh air, fun is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and easy readforgotten their origins. I was surprised Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back to the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli family she left behind – one known for happy endings, or will the dark leaders from the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and resident crow family subject her to their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. evil reign? [[What if It's Us The Tunnels Below by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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