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|author=Arvin AhmadiRachel Greenlaw|title=How It All Blew UpCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=18 year old Amir is American Iranian''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a muslimremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and gayplundering the wrecks. He struggles with his identityMira, like her mother before her, unable to face telling his parents is one of the seven who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening swim out to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and runs away..any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Italy! So begins a journey for Amirend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and his family, where they all discover more about Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, and Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he really issecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and who he really wants as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must bedetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14714099290008664730

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedHarry Allen|title=The Black KidsChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black mancome by, Rodney Kingso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, nearly looking for tree bark and edible grasses to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, supplement the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters meagre rations of race, to a woman finding her voice rice and embracing her heritagekimchi at home.|isbn=14711881911805140493

|author=Suzanne CollinsAlexia Casale|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary= Coriolanus Snow It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is refined, charming, and one of dealing with after collapsing on stage in the only surviving members middle of the affluent Snow familya dance performance that was going to change her life. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches goneshe comes back fighting, his parents dead - and yet desperate to avoid the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginspity stares, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance desperate to prove himself get back to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for gooda life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - Meanwhile there's a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning new (both for her and for himcute!) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, boy in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commenceschool, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenesmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, in and just the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world day to day traumas of all the Capitolchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will might she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens thenbe able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=07023001790571373801

|author=James PattersonSimon Fox|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk has been waiting Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the same street cornerforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, every daydemanding he fetch something from a secret place, for years. She is waiting for her parents to come and get herjoin him on the run. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herget together, she continues but barely begin to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group smell the whiff of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now Southern trains when the city father is seemingly even more troubled than usualarrested, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to leaving Archie on the prison next door late express to where the children liveBrighton, and then one day Hawk comes home toting a tin his father was determined to find her family have been taken keep away. Where have they been takenfrom his colleagues, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=15291200041839944420

|author= Samira AhmedLex Croucher|title= Mad, Bad Gwen and Dangerous to KnowArt Are Not in Love|rating= 3.54

|summary=''In the endWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, we all become stories'' Spending the summer it lifted my spirits in Paris sounds like a dream for most peopledelightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, especially art-loversmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but Khayyam canis in love with Bridget (the kingdom't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagos only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. On And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil creating the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths subterfuge of falling in love with Alendre Dumaseach other, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. As the two teenagers travel the city But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they not only discover can both truly be themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=03490035561526651793

|author=Angela MackNick Brooks|title=I Am UnworthyPromise Boys

|summary= Isabel When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school 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 hurtmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the fear, and the person she becamepolice station as suspects. Josh is determined to keep going Each, even through the rageseemingly, the painhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and using each could have been there at the time of his fists to solve any problem or situationmurder. But he has secrets that threaten to tear who killed him , and his brothers apart. When Josh why, and Isabel's worlds collideif any of the boys are innocent, can will they make be able to clear their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run outnames?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1035003155

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1919635017|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was Solomon Klyne isn't a beautifulbad lad, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as so why is he running around London committing a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise series of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it robberies? And how did he learn to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed crack safes? You'll have to a complete stranger, and then another layer wait to another person and another, each containing get an item unique answer to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasuresecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I' at ll answer the end of it allfirst one: for his grandmother.. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful 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=1406366943

|author=Kat EllisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Harrow LakeDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, daughter and is surprised to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she so his desk is saying goodbye one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsprimary school days together. But when she is found by her father As they's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doorre all fired up, straining at the leash only a trail of bloodsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and her father dying in his studyout often turns to sex. And so Which is confusing for Ant, while as he recovers, she doesn't know what his score is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town where his achievements in Indiana that served as the location regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the film ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn's set in stone, he can't rightbe sure. There And that's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales mostly because of the townwho he's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, been having the relationship and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But the sex with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=02413970491529509491

|authorisbn=Holly Jackson1800901232|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=A month on from Brave. Charlene, the explosive conclusion 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to the Andie Bell mysterylike, a new normal has settled over Little Kiltoncharacters and readers both. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey Kicked out of discovering the truth about Andie multiple homes and Salschools, she's deaths has gained massive media attentionfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Cara and has taken up residence in her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out tempestuous personality may be in need of his housea comfort blanket, bleedingyou might perhaps think, and disappeared into the night. As creation of one such item is part of the town tries to heal againplot here, six years on from the events of that nightas Charlene is a wonder knitter, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one and is making something full of Pippalove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friends has gone missingallowed contact with no more. And soWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, alongside and then force people to give her difficult life two days off school, when she shouts someone down as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldexpletively ignorant. And then... well, she what exactly happens is once again taken down a darknot for me to say, twisted path only to discover the truthremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14052977511800901011

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAnn Sei Lin|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRebel Skies

|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the pirate ship DoveMidori, Flora a massive dining hall floating in the girl has assumed the identity sky where soldiers of Florian the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man in an attempt named Himura arrives to fit in with the crew. Life tell her that she is hard as a pirateCrafter like him, trust and empathy are someone with the first things to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhile, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married power to form paper into whatever she desires – a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of power sought after all across the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects He asks her to be thrown together by fatecome with him, never mind fall in love…|isbn=1536204315}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Jackson|title=A Good Girl's Guide to Murder|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=5 years ago, leave the tiny town life of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifuldreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyonesoon Kurara won's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to his dad and died t have any say in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closedmatter, so because the town Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa she is determined forced to prove that Sal was innocent, with flee out into the help of his brother Raviworld. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, and Pippa begins a sky-ship whose express purpose is to unearth the dark truth about the beautifulhunt down shikigami, innocent queen bee and a whole world of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.adventure awaits her…|isbn=14052931871406399590

|author=Kat DunnMarcus Sedgwick|title=Dangerous RemedyWrath

|summary= It's ParisMeet Fitz, 1794a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The Revolution Lockdown is five years old only just over, and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionarieshe should be free to do what he wants, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, go where he wants and the Royalistswith whom he wants, still loyal but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to monarchy intenthis best friend, Cassie. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion They were half of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughterdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the band of outcasts have made enigmatic – saying she could hear a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens subhuman hum coming from the violent falloutearth. But they may have gotten in over their heads Is this connected with their latest rescue, Olympe, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make one of her eco-warrior parents saying the spark that blows up end of the powder-keg world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of revolutionary Paris? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |isbn=17895436491800900899

|author=Jenny ValentineTori Bovalino|title=Hello NowThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after Working all summer in her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking boarding school's library is the sea - which happens last thing Tess Matheson wants to contain do — especially when she gets a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like request for over a ghost hundred books 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 swearshas to deliver herself. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That What makes it worse is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498}}{{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and man who requested the Beast|rating= 3books: Mr Birch.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 The boarding school. Things keep piling up for Rosie's headmaster, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worseman Tess hates. Rosie accidentally destroys As a rare book and with petty act of revenge for making her mother's hospital find and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reignsdeliver such a large request, Hollywood royalty Tess sticks post-it notes on a paparazzi escapeeach of the books, to repay scribbled with the debtugliest insults she can think of.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isnThey't too fond re never meant to reach him, of her eithercourse. However, as the two are forced Her plan is to get to know each otherher anger out like this, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be so terrible after all, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |isbn=16836919381789098130

|author=Patrick NessPhilip Reeve|title=BurnUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''On In a cold Sunday evening word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in early 1957 - this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the very dayScillies. There are troll people on it, in factand sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the second time as President Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with her father too much science in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired his head to help on the farm.''Itworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USfoundling daughter, there is still a Cold War with who washed up out of the Russianssea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah both his sullen brother and her Japanese American friend Jason his curious ward are only too well aware of. As is thrust into the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out protecting their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragonsisland, after alllike it or not.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001788452372

|author=Jacqueline WilsonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Love FrankieJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been diagnosed packed off with MS, when your dad has decided her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to leave her be lighthousekeepers for another womana summer, when your older sister has turned into in the far NE of the girliest girl who ever livedScottish islands. Here be Vikings, andthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, above allwhich is his specialist thing, when Sally and while mum will be leaving her mates are bullying you at schoolcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Oh And Julia, well, she will be homesick and when Sam, your best friend since forever, alone – until she suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him backfinds company one night. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 1510107789

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedJonathan Stroud|title= Yes No Maybe So The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''We might give it our all Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and crash Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and burnshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forthen she meets Albert Browne, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin a dark boy with campaigning in time for dark powers and a special electiondarker past. When his mother encourages him With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted flee to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear mythical Free Isles of speaking to the publicLondon Lagoon. Maya is a PakistaniTogether, they must brave man-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationeating wildlife, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things cannibalistic Tainted and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be all the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither horrors of them really want post-apocalyptic society to be therereach the Free Isles, but as the campaign goes on will they discover that be any more accepted there than they care, a lot, about are in the election - and maybe even about each otherrest of Britain?|isbn=14711846681406394815

|author=AkalaMercedes Helnwein|title=The Dark LadySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=''For Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, secret illegitimate daughter of a boy thief man with brown skin, inherited from a mother who abandoned him"real" family, life she is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems used to represent not being a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. Itpriority in people's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choiceslives. But there are pleasures toowhen she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, and her simple existence is changed for Henrygood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespearefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693152905818X

|author= Alyssa SheinmelT L Huchu|title= What Kind The Library of Girlthe Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Ropa Moyo is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkera ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave been using it to support not only herself, but her, younger sister and her whole world is tipped upside downaging grandmother. Her relationship has just ended and now sheHowever, there's an evil stalking the talk ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the schoolcity's children. Mike was Soon, Ropa is pulled into the most popular search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in school who was always so in love with constant pain for the rest of herlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', everyone knew thatan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her and some donclosest friends—doesn't, but one thing is respond to the chat for surea while, this isnPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't going expect to blow over any time soonfind there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=03490032971683692349

|author= Ben OliverGoldy Moldavsky|title= The LoopLast Girl|rating= 3.5|genre= Teensteens|summary= Set during Rachel Chavez is the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kanebrim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. In a world She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regularsall, he is trapped inside she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a living hell with no chance source of escapecomfort. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him She struggles to find anyone to a trigger held by connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the guards who can end his life Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritualunless someone screams, you have failed. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the model of an infinity loop designed pranks, and people begin to make its inmates sufferget hurt. With When the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wrencompetition then takes a deadly turn, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=19126265510755501527