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|author=Anna CareyRachel Greenlaw|title=This is Not the Jess ShowCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of schoolanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and boyspartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and parent troublesplundering the wrecks. But strange things seem to be happening in Mira, like her mother before her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots is one of people indoors, the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a strange metal devicetrap to end the wrecking, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendthey capture the island's leader and Mira's bagfather. Desperate to save him from death, but that her friends just won't talk Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her about, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Jess feels like she With only nine days to unearth what might be hearing voicessave her father, and as her journey takes her sister (who is very ill) seems from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be responding determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her in strange ways sometimeshome and the ones she holds most dear. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=16836919700008664730

|isbnauthor=1712435728Harry Allen|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he'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's been there for Ra Eun Seo lives in a year, on the same ward where his brother died North Korean town and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesshe is a talented singer. He wants Life is hard and food is difficult to get outside come by, so Seo and back with his her friends: his brotherNari and Min go foraging every evening, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good looking for tree bark and his mother tells him that he's not edible grasses to mention TB supplement the meagre rations of rice and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexkimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493

|author=Alice OsemanAlexia Casale|title=SolitaireSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned It's hard enough to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to the world. Nothing navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; dealing with after collapsing on stage in the rest are just people she sits near so she's not middle of a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herselfdance performance that was going to change her life. But suddenlyshe comes back fighting, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout desperate to avoid the school. And Michael Holden has appeared pity stares, and is showing up everywhere in Toridesperate to get back to a life that's lifeas normal as she can possibly manage. Tori doesn Meanwhile there't know s a new (or carecute!) why she's involvedboy in school, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked her music A Level performance piece to Tori? Why does Michael want try to be in Tori's life so badly and who is hesort out, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isnjust the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't bored dance anymore., might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=97800075592200571373801

|author=Alice OsemanSimon Fox|title=LovelessDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4

|summary= Georgia is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a teenager who's embarking on her first year of university and is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a desperate struggle to figure herself outmost delightful way. She's always In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with love. With the idea of love, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But Bridget (the reality for her has always been different. Shekingdom's never had a crush. She's never been kissedonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the opportunity presents itself subterfuge of falling in any kind of reallove with each other, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But isn't that what she's supposed as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't shelive a lie their whole lives?|isbn=000824412X1526651793

|author=Arvin AhmadiNick Brooks|title=How It All Blew UpPromise Boys

|summary=18 year old Amir When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is American Iranianmurdered, a muslim, and gaythree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He struggles with his identityEach, seemingly, unable to face telling his parents who he really ishas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, so when another student and each could have been there at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs the time of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaymurder...to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirBut who killed him, and his family, where they all discover more about himwhy, and who he really isif any of the boys are innocent, and who he really wants will they be able to be.clear their names?|isbn=14714099291035003155

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1919635017|title=The Black KidsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds ReedSolomon Klyne isn's debut novel t a bad lad, so why is set against the backdrop he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the absolution of four police officers first one: for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to deathhis grandmother.. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|isbn=1471188191

|author=Suzanne CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= Coriolanus Snow Ant is refinedin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, charmingand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, and so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonefootball team, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintainedtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the 10th Hunger Games beginsleash only a single-sex school can form, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes talk in the gamesclass and out often turns to sex. This Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his chance to prove himself to the world and secure score is, where his place achievements in the Capitol for goodthat regard lie. But when he is assigned He's had a tribute with no hope - casual relationship, a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both secret one, for her several months now, and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in his worldstone, in a way he could never have imaginedcan't be sure. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in And that's mostly because of who he's been having the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex relationship and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life toosex with. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791529509491

|authorisbn=James Patterson1800901232|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to come and get herbe a fashion designer. They left Life in the rural village where she lived with her there when she family was just tinyhappy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues woman came to the village to head back there each day, just offer Hahn a job in caseHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin thoughSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi...she has wings Only, Hanh and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with the other girls were not going to work in a group of other childrenshop, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familywere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But now You know those jeans you really wanted: the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the prison next door to where legs? The ones with the children live, artfully-placed rips and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Where have they been taken, It's quite possible that Hanh and can Hawk rescue her co-workers made them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004.

|author= Samira AhmedPatrice Lawrence|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowNeedle|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In Brave. Charlene, the end, we all become stories'heroine' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream of this piece is extremely hard for most some peopleto like, especially art-loverscharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, but Khayyam canshe't relax s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and stop thinking about the mess she left behind has taken up residence in Chicagoher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. On Such a chance encounter with tempestuous personality may be in need of a descendant comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of Alexandre Dumasthe plot here, Khayyam finds herself on as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a historical journey younger sister she's allowed contact with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with Alendre Dumasa store detective, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then. As the two teenagers travel the city they .. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman to remark how sharp and why it was one that should never have been forgottenpointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=03490035561800901011

|author=Angela MackAnn Sei Lin|title=I Am UnworthyRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary= Isabel Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is determined a Crafter like him, someone with the power to start freshform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Start againHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesnWell, soon Kurara won't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape have any say in the hurtmatter, because the fearMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and the person she became. Josh is determined forced to keep going, even through flee out into the rage, world. She joins Himura aboard the painOrihime, and using his fists a sky-ship whose express purpose is to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him hunt down shikigami, 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?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=B089FL7H4H1406399590

|author=Non PrattMarcus Sedgwick|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was Meet Fitz, a beautifulyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, popular and complex girlhe should be free to do what he wants, loved by many to go where he wants and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one daywhom he wants, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard but he cannot stop himself from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, putting his foot in it when her he talks to his best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers Cassie. They were half of some kinda desultory school band, but is surprised to find Cassie was also one hundred per cent the parcel contains another layer addressed to enigmatic – saying she could hear 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 subhuman hum coming from the promise earth. Is this connected with one of 'treasure' at her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it all. With each parcel, a some spooky new layer kind of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can whatmusic she's been broken be fixeddreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And why did Freya leavecan Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=14063669431800900899

|author=Kat EllisTori Bovalino|title=Harrow LakeThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she Working all summer in her boarding school's library is saying goodbye the last thing Tess Matheson wants to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But do — especially when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, gets a request for over a hundred books that she arrives has to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his studydeliver herself. And so, while he recovers, she What makes it worse is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for man who requested the film that made her parents famousbooks: Mr Birch. But something about this place isn't right. ThereThe boarding school's headmaster, and a darkness inside the people hereman Tess hates. Secrets about As a petty act of revenge for making her mother find and dark tales deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the townbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerre never meant to reach him, and disturbing happenings plague Lolaof course. But with every passing hourHer plan is to get her anger out like this, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakeif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=02413970491789098130

|author=Holly JacksonPhilip Reeve|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A month In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on from the explosive conclusion to a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little KiltonScillies. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders There are troll people onit, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionsea-witches, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from legends of the realisation Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their fathermonster approaching from even further west, Elliot Wardwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out of his houseAndrewe, bleeding, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries who has to heal again, six years on keep notes of activity from the events of that nightHidden Lands, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to one of Pippaworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's best friends has gone missingfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. And soBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthlike it or not.|isbn=14052977511788452372

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= The Mermaid, the Witch Julia and the SeaShark|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= On the pirate ship DoveJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Flora the girl has assumed the identity of Florian been packed off with her parents and their cat from the man family home in an attempt SW England to fit be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in with the crewfar NE of the Scottish islands. Life Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is hard as a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things going to be discardedautomating the lantern, but anything has which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be better than starving on hunt the streetselusive Greenland shark. Meanwhile And Julia, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dovewell, headed off to she will be married to a military man homesick and alone – until she's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empiresuddenly finds company one night. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151510107789

|author=Holly JacksonJonathan Stroud|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=5 years agoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the tiny town draconian conformity 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 'confession' text the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and wander the wildlands between the case was closedSeven Kingdoms of Britain, so the town robbing banks and its families tried moved onshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocentBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with the help of his brother Ravidark powers and a darker past. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and Pippa begins they plan to flee to unearth the dark truth about mythical Free Isles of the beautifulLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School the cannibalistic Tainted and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she getshorrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the more dangerous it becomes.rest of Britain?|isbn=14052931871406394815

|author=Kat DunnMercedes Helnwein|title=Dangerous RemedySlingshot|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= It's 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 Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughter, the band 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, Olympe, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. |isbn=1789543649}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Hello Now|rating=4.53

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into man with a big"real" family, old house overlooking the sea - which happens she is used to contain not being a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted priority in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or canpeople'ts lives. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality But when she is consumed by defends a longing for random boy in her class with her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last timeslingshot, she swears. This world her simple existence is quiet, dull and yet suffocating changed for Judegood. That is until the day Novo arrivesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and for her entire concept of the world changes foreverlife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0007466498152905818X

|author= Ashley PostonT L Huchu|title= Bookish and The Library of the BeastDead|rating= 34.5

|summary= Set after Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the ExcelsiCondead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, we are introduced she's been using it to Rosie Thornesupport not only herself, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost but her mother younger sister and is entering her final year of high schoolaging grandmother. Things keep piling up for RosieHowever, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is there's an abandoned castle in her townevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mothertargeting the city's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the damage. She finds herself working search for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay missing boy at the debtrequest of his dead mother.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is a jerk - far bigger and he isnmore dangerous than she ever could't too fond of her eitherve imagined. However, as Will she find the two are forced missing children and bring an end to get to know each otherthis evil, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. or will it claim her too?|isbn=16836919381529039452

|author=Patrick NessKristen O'Neal|title=BurnLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office she may be in constant pain for the second time as President of the United States rest of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon helife. She joins 'd hired to help on the farm.'Oof Ouch My Bones'It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still an online support group where she talks to a Cold War bunch of other teens living with the Russianschronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, still a concomitant arms racewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. And the stain When Brigid—one of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is closest friends—doesn't respond to the deeply unpleasant town deputychat for a while, KelbyPriya becomes concerned. But one thing is She decides to steal her parents'car and drive to Brigid'verys house to check up on her. But what she doesn'' different. In this alternate world, t expect to find there are dragons. The dragons live is a werewolf in an uneasy peace with humans the basement – and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to human in return online for gold - they are dragons, after allthe past few months.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001683692349

|author=Jacqueline WilsonGoldy Moldavsky|title=Love FrankieThe Last Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teensteens|summary= Frankie Rachel Chavez is nearly fourteenthe new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. Being nearly fourteen is She's not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MSrich, when your dad she has decided no ties to leave some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her for another womanspare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, when your older sister has turned into until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the girliest girl who ever livedbest prank in true horror movie style, andunless someone screams, above allyou have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, when Sally and Rachel finally feels like she has found her mates are bullying you at place in this school. Oh, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and when Sam, your best friend since foreverpeople begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, suddenly starts sending Rachel must figure out signs that he might fancy you - and you donwho this masked figure is before it't fancy him backs too late. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 0755501527