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|author=Alice OsemanRachel Greenlaw|title=LovelessCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of university and is the deep, the answering beat in a desperate struggle to figure herself outmy heart. She's always been in love with love' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. With Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the idea of love, seven who swim out to survey the idea of falling madly for someone ruins – rescuing any survivors and finding blissany treasure that lies within. But when the reality for her has always been different. SheCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's never had a crush. Sheleader and Mira's never been kissedfather. And she's desperate Desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind of realsave him from death, tangible Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and physical way for with only coordinates to guide her - , she's disgusted by itsets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But isn't that With only nine days to unearth what shemight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's supposed territory, Mira must be determined to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed stop at nothing to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't save the future of her home and the ones she?holds most dear.|isbn=000824412X0008664730

|author=Arvin AhmadiHarry Allen|title=How It All Blew UpChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=18 year old Amir Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is American Iranian, a muslim, and gaytalented singer. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really Life is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics hard and runs away...food is difficult to Italy! So begins a journey for Amircome by, so Seo and his family, where they all discover more about him, her friends Nari and who he really isMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and who he really wants edible grasses to besupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=14714099291805140493

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedAlexia Casale|title=The Black KidsSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds ReedIt's debut novel 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 set against dealing with after collapsing on stage in the backdrop middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the 1992 Los Angeles riotspity stares, and desperate to get back to a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a black mannew (cute!) boy in school, Rodney Kingher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, nearly and just the day to death. Told from the perspective day traumas of Ashley Bennett, all the novel follows challenges her body continues to throw at her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of raceto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to a woman finding her voice and embracing sing her heritage.way through instead?|isbn=14711881910571373801

|author=Suzanne CollinsSimon Fox|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Coriolanus Snow Late one night Graham Blake is refinedlate back from his shift on the force, charmingand then suddenly rings Archie, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, his parents dead - and yet join him on the facade must be maintainedrun. As the 10th Hunger Games begins They get together, Coriolanus and other students of but barely begin to smell the Academy become the first Mentors whiff of Southern trains when the tributes in father is arrested, leaving Archie on the games. This is late express to Brighton, toting a tin his chance father was determined to prove himself to the world keep away from his colleagues, and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances bearer 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 whole heap of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooquestions. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791839944420

|author=James PattersonLex Croucher|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, every day, for yearsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tinyIn this story, Gwen and although she's almost certain that Arthur have been betrothed since they are never coming back for herwere tiny, she continues much to head back there each daytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, just is in case. Hawk isnlove with Bridget (the kingdom't your ordinary street urchin though..s only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries.she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a group boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together when really they've made are enabling their own familyother romantic attachments. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualas their impending wedding draws ever closer, there's will they find a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have way in which they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Madboth truly be themselves, Bad and Dangerous or are they destined to Know|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like live 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.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 the girl has assumed a massive dining hall floating in 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 tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the crew. Life is hard as power to form paper into whatever she desires – a pirate, trust and empathy are power sought after all across the first things Empire. He asks her to be discardedcome with him, but anything has to be better than starving on leave the streetslife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. MeanwhileWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards matter, because the DoveMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, headed off to be married and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a military man she's never met on some farsky-flung colony of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects ship whose express purpose is to be thrown together by fatehunt down shikigami, never mind fall in love…and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=15362043151406399590

|author=Holly JacksonMarcus Sedgwick|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=5 years agoMeet Fitz, the tiny town a young Scottish lad full of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifulfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a traceand he should be free to do what he wants, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his dad and died foot in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearanceit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. His guilt They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was sealed and also one hundred per cent the case was closed, so enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the town and its families tried moved onearth. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the help end of his brother Ravi. What started the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful? Well, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years agonot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.|isbn=14052931871800900899

|author=Kat DunnTori Bovalino|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's Paris, 1794. The Revolution library is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionaries, trying last thing Tess Matheson wants to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and the Royalists, still loyal do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to monarchy intentdeliver herself. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions What makes it worse is the Battalion of man who requested the Deadbooks: Mr Birch. Led by a disillusioned revolutionaryThe boarding school's daughterheadmaster, the band and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of outcasts have made revenge for making her find and deliver such a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the violent falloutugliest insults she can think of. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescueThey're never meant to reach him, Olympeof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. |isbn=17895436491789098130

|author=Jenny ValentinePhilip Reeve|title=Hello NowUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to In a smallword, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into story set on a bigpeculiar island called Wildsea, old house overlooking British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea - which happens witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to contain a strangekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, old sitting tenant named HenryAndrewe, who stays rooted in has to keep notes of activity from the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this newHidden Lands, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last timeAndrewe's foundling daughter, she swears. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until who washed up out of the sea one day Novo arriveseleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and her entire concept of his curious ward are thrust into the world changes foreverof protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=00074664981788452372

|author= Ashley PostonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Bookish Julia and the BeastShark|rating= 3.54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Set after the ExcelsiConJulia, we are introduced to Rosie Thorneour pre-teen heroine, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost been packed off with her mother parents and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for Rosiea summer, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her townthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, things just get worsethat kind of Scottish island. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money Dad is going to cover be automating the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reignslantern, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escapewhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to repay hunt the debtelusive Greenland shark.  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 And Julia, as the two are forced to get to know each otherwell, their guards begin to lower she will be homesick and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after allalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |isbn=16836919381510107789

|author=Patrick NessJonathan Stroud|title=BurnThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very dayScarlett McCain is an outlaw, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took rejecting the oath draconian conformity of office for the second time as President of Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in wildlands between the parking lot Seven Kingdoms of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to help on the farmkeep herself alive.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USBut then she meets Albert Browne, there is still a Cold War dark boy with the Russians, still dark powers and a concomitant arms racedarker past. And With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the stain mythical Free Isles of racism is just as crushing the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man- something mixed race Sarah eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware all the horrors of. As is post-apocalyptic society to reach the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate worldFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few the rest of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! Britain?|isbn= 14063755001406394815

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMercedes Helnwein|title=Love FrankieSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteenGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Being nearly fourteen As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not easy being a priority in people's lives. But when your mum has been diagnosed she defends a random boy in her class with MSher slingshot, when your dad has decided to leave her simple existence is changed for another womangood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, when your older sister for her life now has turned into the girliest 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 a boy in it that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him backshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 152905818X

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedT L Huchu|title= Yes No Maybe So The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= ''We might give it our all Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and crash and burna bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forEver since she dropped out of school, don't you think?'she'Jaime has s been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him using it to go canvassingsupport not only herself, he can't think of anything worsebut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like 's an evil stalking the present to conquer his fear ruined streets of speaking to Edinburgh, targeting the publiccity's children. Maya Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having missing boy at the worst summer request of her lifehis dead mother. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the summer to help take her mind off things world of magic is far bigger and her only close friend is permanently busymore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if Will she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be find the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want missing children and bring an end to be therethis evil, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each otheror will it claim her too?|isbn=14711846681529039452

|author=AkalaKristen O'Neal|title=The Dark LadyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''For a street kid from the DevilOof Ouch My Bones's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, an online support group where she talks to a boy thief bunch of other teens living with brown skinchronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, inherited from while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a mother who abandoned himwhile, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at nightPriya becomes concerned. She seems decides to represent a past, and possibly a future...steal her parents''Henry car 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. Itdrive to Brigid's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choiceshouse to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there are pleasures too, is a werewolf in the basement – and for Henry, that werewolf to be the chief pleasure is girl she has been talking to online for the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespearepast few months. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 14449436931683692349

|author= Alyssa SheinmelGoldy Moldavsky|title= What Kind of The Last Girl|rating= 45|genre= Teensteens|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Rachel Chavez is braver than doing something when youthe new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn're not'' When Mike Parkert belong. She's girlfriend comes into school with a black eyenot rich, claiming he gave it she has no ties to hersome royal family in Serbia, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now most of all, she's spends the talk majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the schoolMary Shelley Club. Mike was A secret society with one aim: pull off the most popular boy best prank in school who was always so true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in love with the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found herplace in this school, everyone knew thatthings start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, so why did he do what he did? Some and people believe her and some don'tbegin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, but one thing Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is for sure, this isnbefore it't going to blow over any time soons too late.|isbn=03490032970755501527