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|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed1712435728|title= Yes No Maybe So Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael Gallagher|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But When we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forfirst meet Alex Hannah, donhe't you think?s just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing that: he'Jaime has s been spending there for a year, on the same ward where his summer helping brother died and now, with his cousin with campaigning hair all shorn off, he's going home in time for a special electionhis dead brother's clothes. When He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother encourages tells him that he's not to mention TB and to go canvassingsay it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, he canAlex.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice Oseman|title=Solitaire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she't think s not a complete loner. She hates a lot of anything worsethings - including herself. HoweverBut suddenly, Jaime a blog called Solitaire has always wanted to be a politician arrived and decides there is no time like pulling pranks throughout the present school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to conquer his fear of speaking be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to the publicbe in Tori's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore. Maya |isbn=9780007559220}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice Oseman|title=Loveless|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Georgia is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl teenager who 's embarking on her first year of university and is having in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always been in love with love. With the worst summer idea of love, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for her lifehas always been different. Her parents are going through She's never had a separation, crush. She's never been kissed. And she has zero plans 's desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But when the summer to help take her mind off things opportunity presents itself in any kind of real, tangible and physical way for her only close friend - she's disgusted by it. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412X}}{{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=18 year old Amir is permanently busyAmerican Iranian, a muslim, and gay. To help occupy her He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, her threatening to show his parents offer photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away...to buy her Italy! So begins a car if she agrees journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to go canvassingbe. |isbn=1471409929}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The pair could possibly be Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the worst canvassing duo in history1992 Los Angeles riots, as neither a reaction to the absolution of them really want four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to be theredeath. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they carenovel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a lot, about the election - woman finding her voice and maybe even about each other?embracing her heritage.|isbn=14711846681471188191

|author=AkalaSuzanne Collins|title=The Dark LadyBallad of Songbirds and Snakes

|summary=''For a street kid from Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the Devil's Gapwar. Their riches gone, London's most notorious slumhis parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, life Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is short his chance to prove himself to the world and toughsecure his place in the Capitol for good. For Henry, But when he is assigned a boy thief tribute with brown skin, inherited no hope - a girl from a mother who abandoned District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him, life is tougher still) are gone. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to represent be a pastspark in his world, and possibly in a futureway he could never have imagined...''Henry and his friendsAs the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, brother complex and sister Matthew and Marystrangely dangerous world of the Capitol, have various ways of getting byCoriolanus is fighting for his life too. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob Will she survive the houses of Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179}}{{Frontpage|author=James Patterson|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride Novel|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the richsame street corner, every day, for years. It She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although she's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if almost certain that they are caughtnever coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too.she has wings, and for Henrycan fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the chief pleasure city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the Globe Theatre prison next door to where the children live, and the plays of William Shakespearethen one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Henry loves language Where have they been taken, and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn= 14449436931529120004

|author= Alyssa SheinmelSamira Ahmed|title= What Kind of GirlMad, Bad and Dangerous to Know|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're notIn the end, we all become stories''

When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a black eyedream for most people, claiming he gave it to herespecially art-lovers, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended but Khayyam can't relax and now stop thinking about the mess she's the talk left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the school. Mike was truth about the most popular boy in school 19th century Muslim woman who was always so in love may have crossed paths with herAlendre Dumas, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her Eugene Delacroix and some don'tLord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonthat should never have been forgotten.|isbn=03490032970349003556

|author= Ben OliverAngela Mack|title= The LoopI Am Unworthy|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= Set during Isabel is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machineshurt, the fear, The Loop follows and the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kaneperson she became. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he Josh is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him determined to a trigger held by keep going, even through the rage, the guards who can end pain, and using his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access fists to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritualsolve any problem or situation. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where But he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed has secrets that threaten to make its inmates suffertear him and his brothers apart. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside When Josh and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard WrenIsabel's worlds collide, can Luka ever they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be free? Why has he been imprisonedhappy? What waits for him if he can break the loopOr will Josh's time run out?|isbn=1912626551B089FL7H4H

|author=Mark LinganeNon Pratt|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Every Little Piece of My Heart

|summary= ''Degrade'' opens Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as it means to go on a queen bee 16-year- old student, complete with inyerfacebest friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, banging actionshe just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. Poor Arid, alone in the desert No one heard from her since his parents were killed. A once active social profile left deserted. So, has when her best friend Sophie receives a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it out and his to contain answers of some kind, but is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by surprised to find the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and on board the promise of 'treasure'Moonlight'' under at the suspicious eyes end of its leaderit all. With each parcel, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why and painful truths come to light that isthreaten to break bonds, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion both new and imprisonedold. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen BeaCan what's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert....been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn= 099461649X1406366943

|author=Akwaeke EmeziKat Ellis|title=PetHarrow Lake

|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to understand that they were saved New York City - by the angels, those who rid the town of evil, sneaking out and there are no monsters anymorestealing from its residents. But one daywhen she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, Jam accidentally cuts herselfshe arrives to find an unlocked door, and bleeds a little onto one trail of blood, and her mother's paintingsfather dying in his study. The blood awakens a bizarreAnd so, terrifying-looking creature named Petwhile he recovers, who somehow comes she is sent off to life and declares live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that it is made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here to hunt . Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. Though Jam tries But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to convince it think that these stories may not be stories at all the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there is one, still, and that the monster is hiding something very real and sinister lurks in the home of her best friend, RedemptionHarrow Lake.|isbn=05713551100241397049

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonHolly Jackson|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelGood Girl, Bad Blood|rating=35

|summary=DianaA month on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mystery, being unique a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on , Pippa's viral podcast detailing her islandjourney of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attention, is Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the victim of realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a lot girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out of tauntshis house, bleeding, and claims disappeared into the night. As the town tries to heal again, six years on from the events of nepotismthat night, tragedy strikes again. ItJamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa's only her unique statusbest friends has gone missing. And so, and alongside her mother being Queendifficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, that has her with any standing at allshe is once again taken down a dark, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought twisted path to be a strong young womandiscover the truth. Perhaps too strong for |isbn=1405297751}}{{Frontpage|author= Maggie Tokuda-Hall|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= On the islandpirate ship Dove, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story Flora the girl has her quickly leaving home for assumed the World identity of MenFlorian the man in an attempt to fit in with the crew. Life is hard as a pirate, trust and this Diana is empathy are the first things to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storystreets. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running raceMeanwhile, but the survivor she drags from young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the waters is only going Dove, headed off to be married to disturb a lot more..military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empire.Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=14012825551536204315

|author=Tanya LandmanHolly Jackson|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingA Good Girl's Guide to Murder

|summary=A young woman5 years ago, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herthe tiny town of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, and years in popular Andie Bell disappeared without a dreary schooltrace, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to have something like his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closed, so the life she wants – town and with only one job, its families tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined to tutor a young half-French girlprove that Sal was innocent, whose father is almost always absentwith the help of his brother Ravi. When he does turn up he seems What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins to be unearth the darktruth about the beautiful, brooding innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and troubled – but thatwhat really happened all those years ago. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.|isbn=1405293187}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Dunn|title=Dangerous Remedy|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= It's nothing compared Paris, 1794. The Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionaries, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and the darkerRoyalists, more broody and even more troubled secret still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught in a no man's land between the housetwo warring factions is the Battalion of the Dead. YesLed by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughter, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don'tband of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent fallout. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescue, for whatever reasonOlympe, this is a wonderful book to turn togirl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris.|isbn=17811291261789543649

|author=Mary HJenny Valentine|title=Hello Now|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swears. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498}}{{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.K5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. ChoiThings keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness|title=Permanent RecordBurn|rating=45

|summary=Pablo, ''On a college dropcold Sunday evening in early 1957 -outthe very day, is working at a New York bodega. He's massively in debtfact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''It's avoiding his mother1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks there is still a Cold War with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningthe Russians, he's surprised to discover that still a concomitant arms race. And the girl he stain of racism is chatting with just as he serves is a supercrushing -famous pop star something mixed race Sarah andher Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipKelby. With But one character who thing is trying ''very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and the other who communication is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherminimal. This isn't just But a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in his life via his meetreturn for gold -up with Leanna Smartthey are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! |isbn=03490034591406375500

|author= Alexandra ChristoJacqueline Wilson|title= Into Love Frankie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS, when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the Crooked Placegirliest girl who ever lived, and, above all, when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So

|summary= In the city of Creije, Tavia''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a magical con-artistspecial election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, specialises in wowing gullible tourists with cheap charms and trickeryhe can't think of anything worse. However, when Jaime has always wanted to be a new politician and powerful form decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the streetsworst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, nearly killing she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend Saxonyis permanently busy. To help occupy her, Tavia begins her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to worrygo canvassing. At The pair could possibly be the same timeworst canvassing duo in history, her childhood best friend Wesleyas neither of them really want to be there, but as the youngest underboss in the city, discovers campaign goes on they discover that Dante Ashwoodthey care, kingpin of the Creijen criminal underworlda lot, has his sights set on world domination. It's now up to about the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans...election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=12503183781471184668

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401280048.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401280048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] The 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. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. 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 gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to 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]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] 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'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. 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]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401283292.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401283292/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]=== [[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's 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 the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she 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 is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact Move 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]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526613689.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526613689/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]  <!-- Thakur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140638853X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140638853X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Thrillers Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur|Full Review]] <!-- Lawrence -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444940651.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]]<!-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]]<!-- Filby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999683587.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999683587/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.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]]  <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 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 be solved, and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. 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