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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.
|isbn=1250318378
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{| styleclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=''vertical"15" <!-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''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 colonialINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]><!-- Macdibble Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->
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===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Dog Runner Graphic Novel by Bren MacDibbleMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]===
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Set in The young man called Bruce Wayne is a dystopian Australiavery noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, this is and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the story age of Ella and Emery and their dogs travelling across the outback togethereighteen. A red fungus has wiped out all Feeling rather stuck with the crops and grasseslegacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, and with the food chain grinding he wants to a halt, society is collapsingdo charitable deeds. Ella's mum has been gone for But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a long time - she left for work one day criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and then never came gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the homefor violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Ella and her half brother Emery have been living at home with their dad and their dogsThere he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, hoping for the besta gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, but one day their dad decides to go out and try to find Ella's mummurder the owner. When Can he also fails get close to return, Emery decides that their best chance one of survival is to set out with them and get the dogs to travel across the outback to his grandfather's house where, he believestruth of their schemes, there or will still the manipulative Madeleine be food and a safe place step too far for them to live until their father can find them again. the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Dog Runner Graphic Novel by Bren MacDibbleMarie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]]
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Set in The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a typical American town, par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'We Are Not Okay'' tells m halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the story cover of four teenage girls facing the difficulties brought 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 high school and growing up the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as a girl if texts of scripture in todaythis book's societyworld predated our standardised literacy. The novel is told from four different perspectives But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, those of Lucyboth human and animal, 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 mindsand more flashbacks, 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 no proof 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 ''this was what I'm With Her''. d bought in for? [[We Are Not Okay Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Natalia GomesMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]
Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she''I am not who I say I ams been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town,'' ''and Marla isn't who the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she thinks finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood isbeing redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. '' One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the 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… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]]
''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' 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 Watson -->
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Lucy 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. [[The Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll|Full Review]] <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:14711722364star.jpg|link=httpCategory://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471172236/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]  | style="vertical-align[[: top; text-alignCategory: left;"Teens|===[[Check Mates by Stewart FosterTeens]]===
[[imageAmara'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:5starto bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:TeensSome Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|TeensFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Wild-Palmer Thakur -->
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===[[The Tunnels Below Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Nadine Wild-PalmerSophia Thakur]]===
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Meet Cecilia. ItSophia Thakur's her twelfth birthday, and after debut anthology is a scene collection of poems that shows her parents are all unique, whether in relation to be wackytheir style, witty and wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a grand day of celebrationlength or theme. Cecilia The collection is toting a largesplit into four sections, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a presenttitled 'grow', but ends up dropping it'wait', 'break'and watching it as it rolls right back from her grip into 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind foundations that the gapanthology is built on. Back in the train Each section begins with it she finds she is alone – and the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It's the outskirts, Cecilia will find, of a strange society foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of English-speaking humanised animals, and her first acquaintancewriting, ranging from a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of quote by a world aboveNigerian playwright, with suns and fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and forgotten their originsto African proverbs. Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her and find her way back This provides a nice introduction to the family she left behind – or will section before you are immersed into the dark leaders from the resident crow family subject beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her to their evil reign? heart and soul into. [[The Tunnels Below Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Nadine Wild-PalmerSophia Thakur|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are Blood And Thunder Rose, Interrupted by Kesia LupoPatrice Lawrence]]===
[[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 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]]
Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Paige Gregory -->
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Meet Mera[[image:4. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves5star. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneCategory: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]]<!-- Collins Filby -->
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===[[All the Invisible Things The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Orlagh CollinsRay Filby]]===
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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]]
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 James -->
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others The Starlight Watchmaker by Alyssa SheinmelLauren James]]===
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''They needed someone 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 blamebe solved, and I was the is only available scapegoattoo ready to help. 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 restaurantsAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, explored the most sophisticated corners which takes Hugo out of the globe his drab attic workroom and lived into a life scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of luxurythe planet never before known to exist. [[A Danger to Herself and Others The Starlight Watchmaker by Alyssa SheinmelLauren James|Full Review]]
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===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Sara BarnardBeth Webb]]===
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It's two years Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a stint with a lovely foster familyresearch trip. And now So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions shehas - who's eighteen and must leave on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the Looked After system. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. Shedoor when there's found herself a job, knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a bedsit has been rented, serious accident and she's about then for it to return to Brighton, actually happen? And the only place shedreadful headaches. Something's ever felt truly at homegoing on. Luckily for Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friendsinvestigate the accident... [[Fierce Fragile Hearts Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Sara BarnardBeth Webb|Full Review]]<!-- Owen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349003203.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349003203/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan:Category:Teens|Teens]]===
[[image:4''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.5star This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] But what's this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[:Category:HorrorThe Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|HorrorFull Review]]
Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on! Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]]   <!-- Landman Macdibble -->
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===[[One Shot The Dog Runner by Tanya LandmanBren MacDibble]]===
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''Pa Set in a dystopian Australia, this is the story of Ella and Emery and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from their dogs travelling across the same clothoutback together.'' But Pa A red fungus has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was wiped out all the only one of three children who looked like himcrops and grasses, and none of with the others acted like himfood chain grinding to a halt, society is collapsing. Ella's mum has been gone for a long time - she left for work one day and certainly his wife didn't seem to fully understand himthen never came home. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings Ella and mother that are fully against her. But half brother Emery have been living at least she can sneak home with their dad and their dogs, hoping for the best, but one day their dad decides to go out at night, and shoot some game try to find Ella's mum. When he also fails to stop them from starving? Wellreturn, no, not where her mother Emery decides that their best chance of survival is concerned – to set out with the dogs to travel across the very idea of a female shooting thingsoutback to his grandfather's house where, he believes, when they could there will still be preparing food and a safe place for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalousthem to live until their father can find them again. [[One Shot The Dog Runner by Tanya LandmanBren MacDibble|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are Not Okay by Natalia Gomes]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]HarperSet 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 life society. The novel is pretty disastrous at the momenttold from four different perspectives, through no fault those of her own. Her mother has cancer Lucy, Ulana, Trina and not long Sophia, whose friendship statuses vary from BFFs to livesworn enemies. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts The reader is presented with him. And her brother is forever getting a glimpse into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonethelesseach of their lives, but more importantly their minds, despite coping with her and at times the thoughts of those characters could have been taken directly from my own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl Gomes has created a heartbreakingly real and intercedesrelevant novel that focuses on prominent topic areas which are becoming ingrained in our society, only particularly in relation to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place'Me Too Movement''. But even an imaginative girl ''We Are Not Okay'' reminds the reader of the importance of phrases like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken'I'm With Her''... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely We Are Not Okay by Brigid KemmererNatalia Gomes|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones]]===
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Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family[[image: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters5star. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beachjpg|link=Category: 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. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
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''I am a girl trying to forget.''
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home.5starThe burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] She''No Widdershins girl has ever been able s on her way to Bude to leave Crowstone. If we dofind Kelly-Anne, we'll die by the next sunset. '' ''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on was the isle of Crowstonefirst to run away from home, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire livesbut Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she Night is determined that nothing closing in and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the world has garden of what looks to offerbe an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in setting out to do just that, she it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generationsfriend, Toffee. 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 And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key because Marla is so happy to their problem. see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[A Pinch of Magic Toffee by Michelle HarrisonSarah Crossan|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] You see, her dad is a bully, edging closer and closer towards physically abusing her mum, and Lucy is manipulated by him, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]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. [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Words That Fly Between Us by Sarah Carroll|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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 Foster -->
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===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]===
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[[image:5starIn 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCheck Mates by Stewart Foster|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 Wild-Palmer -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns The Tunnels Below by Kendare BlakeNadine Wild-Palmer]]===
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Meet Cecilia. It''You cannot put on s her twelfth birthday, and after a costume scene that shows her parents to be wacky, witty and become something else. You are wonderful as if fresh from an American sit-com, the whole family is set to go out for a queen grand day of Fennbirn islandcelebration.'' Following on Cecilia is toting a large, silvered ball that her younger sister found as a present, but ends up dropping it, and watching it as it rolls right back from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] her grip into the very Underground carriage they had just left. Mind the gap. Back in the train with it she finds she is alone – and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], the train promptly hares off to leave her abandoned in pitch darkness at a stop no other train has ever taken her to… It''Two Dark Reigns'' each of s the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her lifeoutskirts, Cecilia will find, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island a strange society of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown thoughEnglish-speaking humanised animals, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs her first acquaintance, a fox-man, will tell her that all talk of dissent a world above, with suns and revolution grow louder on fields and fresh air, is pooh-poohed as the streets each nonsense gibberish of people who have wandered in darkness too much and every dayforgotten their origins. And without evidence of Can she survive all this wondrous civilisation can throw at her sisters' death does anyone but herself and find her way back to the old queens buried under her skin, believe family she is left behind – or will the dark leaders from the one true Queenresident crow family subject her to their evil reign? [[Two Dark Reigns The Tunnels Below by Kendare BlakeNadine Wild-Palmer|Full Review]]
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