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|authorisbn= Ashley Poston1712435728|title= Bookish and the BeastJamie's Keepsake|author=Michael Gallagher|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who visit the other patients but Alex has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year no intention of high school. Things keep piling up doing that: he's been there for Rosiea year, on the same ward where his brother died and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in her town, things just his dead brother's clothes. He wants to get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book outside and back with her his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mothertells him that he's hospital not to mention TB and funeral costs she to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice Oseman|title=Solitaire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has no money returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to cover the damageworld. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She finds hates a lot of things - including herself working for Vance Reigns. But suddenly, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the debtschool.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance And Michael Holden has appeared and is a jerk - and he isnshowing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't too fond of her eitherknow (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. However, as the two are forced What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to get be linked to know each other, their guards begin Tori? Why does Michael want to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be in Tori's life so terrible after allbadly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore. |isbn=16836919389780007559220

|author=Patrick NessAlice Oseman|title=BurnLoveless

|summary=Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year of university and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She'On a cold Sunday evening s always been in early 1957 - love with love. With the very dayidea of love, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath idea of office falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with reality for her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon hehas always been different. She'd hired to help on the farms never had a crush.''ItShe's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the Russians, still a concomitant arms racenever been kissed. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - she's desperate to feel something mixed race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware offall for someone. As is But when the deeply unpleasant town deputyopportunity presents itself in any kind of real, Kelbytangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by it. But one thing is isn't that what she'verys supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can' differentt she?|isbn=000824412X}}{{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=18 year old Amir is American Iranian, a muslim, and gay. In this alternate world He struggles with his identity, there are dragonsunable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away.. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans .to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and communication who he really is minimal, and who he really wants to be. But |isbn=1471409929}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a few reaction to the absolution of these winged creatures do hire out their labour four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to human in return for gold - they are dragonsdeath. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, after allto a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001471188191

|author=Jacqueline WilsonSuzanne Collins|title=Love FrankieThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

|summary= Frankie Coriolanus Snow is nearly fourteenrefined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. Being nearly fourteen This is not easy his chance to prove himself to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when your mum he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will she survive the 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 diagnosed with MSwaiting on the same street corner, every day, when your dad has decided for years. She is waiting for her parents to leave come and get her . They left her there when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for another womanher, she continues to head back there each day, when just in case. Hawk isn't your older sister ordinary street urchin though...she has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedwings, andcan fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other children, above allwith interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, when Sally and then one day Hawk comes home to find her mates are bullying you at schoolfamily have been taken away. Oh Where have they been taken, and when Samcan Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, your best friend since foreverBad and Dangerous to Know|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you donwe all become stories''t fancy him back.

Poor Frankie! Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she 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 truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord 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 that should never have been forgotten.|isbn= 0857535897 0349003556}}{{Frontpage|author=Angela Mack|title=I Am Unworthy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= 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 hurt, the fear, and the person she became. Josh is determined to keep going, even through the rage, the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedNon Pratt|title= Yes No Maybe So Every Little Piece of My Heart|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all Freya was a beautiful, popular and crash complex girl, loved by many 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 seemingly stable in time for her existence as a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassingqueen bee 16-year-old student, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician complete with best friend and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear promise of speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer end of her lifeGCSEs just months away. Her parents are going through a separationBut one day, on January 1st, she has zero plans for the summer to help take just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her mind off things and since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her only close best friend is permanently busy. To help occupy Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her5 months after, her parents offer she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to buy her a car if she agrees complete stranger, and then another layer to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in historyanother person and another, as neither of each containing an item unique to them really want to be thereand Freya, but as connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the campaign goes on they discover that they careend of it all. With each parcel, a lot, about new layer of the election story and of Freya is unwrapped - and maybe even about each otherpainful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14711846681406366943

|author=AkalaKat Ellis|title=The Dark LadyHarrow Lake

|summary=''For a street kid from the Devil's GapWhen we first meet 17-year-old Lola, London's most notorious slumdaughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, life she is short saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and toughstealing from its residents. For HenryBut when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, a boy thief with brown skinshe arrives to find an unlocked door, inherited from a mother who abandoned himtrail of blood, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters and her father dying in his dreams at nightstudy. She seems And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to represent a pastlive with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, and possibly a futurethe small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous.But something about this place isn't right.There's a darkness inside the people here.''Henry Secrets about her mother and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways dark tales of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. Ittown's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choicesdisturbing happenings plague Lola. But there are pleasures toowith every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and for Henryshe begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language something very real and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feelssinister lurks in Harrow Lake. |isbn= 14449436930241397049

|author= Alyssa SheinmelHolly Jackson|title= What Kind of Good Girl, Bad Blood|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= A month on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings'assault trial thunders on, Pippa' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkers viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's girlfriend comes into school with a black eyedeaths has gained massive media attention, claiming he gave it to Cara and hersister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and now kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she's the talk stumbled out of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into the schoolnight. Mike was As the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with hertown tries to heal again, everyone knew six years on from the events of thatnight, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And so why did he do what he did? Some people believe , alongside her and some don'tdifficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, but one thing she is for sureonce again taken down a dark, this isn't going twisted path to blow over any time soondiscover the truth.|isbn=03490032971405297751

|author= Ben OliverMaggie Tokuda-Hall|title= The LoopMermaid, the Witch and the Sea|rating= 3.5

|summary= Set during On the aftermath pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl has assumed the identity of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up Florian the man in an attempt to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows fit in with the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kanecrew. In Life is hard as a world of Have pirate, trust and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regularsempathy are the first things to be discarded, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator but anything has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by be better than starving on the guards who can end his life with one squeezestreets. Luka is taunted by limited access Meanwhile, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed be married to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of execution] after Delay he is in despairthe Nipran Empire. His prison is based on the model Neither of an infinity loop designed them expects to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wrenbe thrown together by fate, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?never mind fall in love…|isbn=19126265511536204315

|author=Mark LinganeHolly Jackson|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)A Good Girl's Guide to Murder|rating=45

|summary= 5 years ago, the tiny town of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'Degrade'confession' opens as it means text to go on - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out dad and his is pretty much destroyeddied in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella His guilt was sealed and on board the ''Moonlight'' under case was closed, so the suspicious eyes of town and its leaderfamilies tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her the help of his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find brother Ravi. What started out why that isas an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion Pippa begins to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and imprisonedwhat really happened all those years ago. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughterBut the closer she gets, Frey, stranded in the desert...more dangerous it becomes.|isbn= 099461649X1405293187

|author=Akwaeke EmeziKat Dunn|title=PetDangerous Remedy

|summary=It's Paris, 1794. The people Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised Revolutionaries, trying to understand that they were saved maintain their control by the angelswhatever means necessary, those who rid and the town of evilRoyalists, and there are no monsters anymorestill loyal to monarchy intent. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds Caught in a little onto one of her motherno man's paintingsland between the two warring factions is the Battalion of the Dead. The blood awakens Led by a bizarredisillusioned revolutionary's daughter, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monsterband of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent fallout. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are goneBut they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescue, Pet is certain that there is one, stillOlympe, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her the monster is hiding in spark that blows up the home powder-keg of her best friend, Redemptionrevolutionary Paris.|isbn=05713551101789543649

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonJenny Valentine|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelHello Now|rating=34.5

|summary=DianaJude reluctantly moves to a small, being unique on quiet seaside town after her islandMum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, is old house overlooking the victim of sea - which happens to contain a lot of tauntsstrange, old sitting tenant named Henry, and claims of nepotismwho stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. It's only her unique statusAs Jude settles into this new, and her mother being Queenseemingly mundane, that has reality she is consumed by a longing for her with any standing old life in London and anger at allanother forced change – but this will be the last time, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young womanswears. Perhaps too strong for the islandThis world is quiet, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until the World of Menday Novo arrives, and this Diana is the heroine her entire concept of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more..world changes forever.|isbn=14012825550007466498

|author=Tanya LandmanAshley Poston|title=Jane Eyre: Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|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. Things 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 Retellingjerk - 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=Burn

|summary=A young woman''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary schoolfact, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the life she wants – and United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose her father is almost always absent. When in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he does turn up he seems 'd hired to be dark, brooding and troubled – but thathelp on the farm.''It's nothing compared to 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the darkerRussians, more broody still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah and even more troubled secret in her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the housedeeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donBut one thing is ''very''tdifferent. In this alternate world, for whatever reason, this there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a wonderful book to turn few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour tohuman in return for gold - they are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! |isbn=17811291261406375500

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiJacqueline Wilson|title=Permanent RecordLove Frankie|rating=4.5

|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, Frankie is working at a New York bodeganearly fourteen. He's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningMS, he's surprised when your dad has decided to discover that leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest 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 anyoneever lived, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone , above all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherwhen Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. This isn't just a love story thoughOh, and actually it's really just Pab's storywhen Sam, your best friend since forever, about the journey suddenly starts sending out signs that he takes in his life via his meetmight fancy you -up with Leanna Smartand you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn=03490034590857535897

|author= Alexandra ChristoBecky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Into the Crooked PlaceYes 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? 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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. 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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 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 Move 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 Newest Thrillers 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]]