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|author=Becky AlbertalliRachel Greenlaw|title= Simon vsCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of 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 trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive 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, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the Homo Sapiens AgendaSun

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Ra Eun Seo lives in a great life. He has a close group of friends, a loving family, North Korean town and even an adorable dog. But he has she is a secret: he's gaytalented singer. Only one person knows thisLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space Min go foraging every evening, looking for Simon; it's his own private universe without tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the fear meagre rations of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands, rice and everything Simon knows is turned upside downkimchi at home.|isbn=014135609X1805140493

|author=Anna CareyAlexia Casale|title=This is Not the Jess ShowSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Jess is a normal 90It's hard enough to navigate your teenage girl, just trying years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the usual stresses middle of school, and boys, and parent troublesa dance performance that was going to change her life. But strange things seem she comes back fighting, desperate to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsavoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a strange metal device, with an apple on it, life that slips out of her friend's bagas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, but that her friends music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just won't talk the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her aboutto navigate. Jess feels like So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding able to sing her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' lifeway through instead?|isbn=16836919700571373801

|isbnauthor=1712435728Simon Fox|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's just being released fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Southern General Hospitalrun. The nurse thinks he'll come back They get together, but barely begin to visit smell the other patients but Alex has no intention whiff of doing that: he's been there for a yearSouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the same ward where his brother died and nowlate express to Brighton, with toting a tin his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants father was determined to get outside and back with keep away from his friends: his brothercolleagues, Forbes, says that and the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexbearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420

|author=Alice OsemanLex Croucher|title=SolitaireGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Who knew that what I really needed to Year 12 following Christmas break read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and feels dead Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the world. Nothing their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; in love with Bridget (the rest are just people she sits near so shekingdom's not a complete loneronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. She hates And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a lot boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of things - including herselffalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But suddenlyas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere way in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (which they can both truly be themselves, or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem are they destined to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, reallylive a lie their whole lives? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=97800075592201526651793

|author=Alice OsemanNick Brooks|title=LovelessPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Georgia When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a teenager who's embarking on her first year grudge of university some description against Principal Moore, and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always each could have been in love with love. With there at the idea time of lovehis murder. But who killed him, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for her has always been different. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something why, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in if any kind of realthe boys are innocent, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by it. But isn't that what she's supposed will they be able to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't sheclear their names?|isbn=000824412X1035003155

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi1919635017|title=How It All Blew UpA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=18 year old Amir Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is American Iranian, he running around London committing a muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening get an answer to show the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaygrandmother...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Black KidsDifferent for Boys

|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is set against the backdrop one of four with both his best buddy from the 1992 Los Angeles riotsfootball team, a reaction and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the absolution of four police officers for beating leash only a black mansingle-sex school can form, Rodney King, nearly the talk in class and out often turns to deathsex. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, the novel follows her evolution from where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racecasual relationship, to a woman finding her voice secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and embracing her heritagethe sex with.|isbn=14711881911529509491

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1800901232|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the only surviving members of the affluent Snow rural village where she lived with her family. But their world was destroyed by happy, if not prosperous, so when the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead smartly- dressed man and yet woman came to the facade must village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be maintainedmissed. As Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the 10th Hunger Games beginsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Coriolanus Hanh and the other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance girls were not going to prove himself to the world and secure his place work in the Capitol for good. But when 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 shop, they were to be a spark work in his world, virtual slavery in a way he could never have imaginedan illegal garment factory. As You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in legs? The ones with the arena artfully- but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooher co-workers made them. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179

|author=James PattersonPatrice Lawrence|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Brave. Charlene, the same street corner, every day, for years. She 'heroine' of this piece is waiting extremely hard for her parents some people to come like, characters and get herreaders both. They left her there when she was just tinyKicked out of multiple homes and schools, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, she continues to head back there each dayAnnie, just and has taken up residence in case. Hawk isnher son Blake't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned shes old room while he's been living with at uni. Such a group tempestuous personality may be in need of other childrena comfort blanket, all with interesting characteristics you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city plot here, as Charlene is seemingly even more troubled than usuala wonder knitter, thereand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children livestore detective, and then one day Hawk comes home force people to find give her family have been taken awaytwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Where have they been takenwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?be...|isbn=15291200041800901011

|author= Samira AhmedAnn Sei Lin|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowRebel Skies|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the endMidori, we all become stories'' Spending a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax Empire come to drink and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagomake merry between their conquests. On However, when a chance encounter with man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a descendant of Alexandre DumasCrafter like him, Khayyam finds herself on someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a historical journey power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him , to unveil leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the truth about matter, because the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre DumasMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronshe is forced to flee out into the world. As She joins Himura aboard the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, but uncover the true story and a whole world of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.adventure awaits her…|isbn=03490035561406399590

|author=Angela MackMarcus Sedgwick|title=I Am UnworthyWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Isabel Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is determined only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to Gilleford Secondary School anymorehis best friend, Cassie. She can escape the hurtThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fear, and enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the person she becameearth. Josh is determined to keep going, even through Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the rage, end of 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 Isabelworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's worlds collide, can they make their relationship workdreaming of? Can they both finally be happyIs she just bonkers? Or will Josh's time run And can Fitz find outthe truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=B089FL7H4H1800900899

|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable Working all summer in her existence as boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the promise of man who requested the end of GCSEs just months awaybooks: Mr Birch. But one dayThe boarding school's headmaster, on January 1st, she justand a man Tess hates... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from As a petty act of revenge for making her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives find and deliver such a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterlarge request, she expects Tess sticks post-it to contain answers notes on each of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerbooks, 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 scribbled with the promise ugliest insults she can think of . They'treasure' at the end re never meant to reach him, of it allcourse. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya Her plan is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bondsget her anger out like this, both new and oldthen take them all off before delivering them. Can whatNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?t delivered them for her.|isbn=14063669431789098130

|author=Kat EllisPhilip Reeve|title=Harrow LakeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan NoxIn a word, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsrich. But when she There is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find certainly an unlocked doorabundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, a trail of bloodBritish but way west, and her father dying in his studybeyond the Scillies. And soThere are troll people on it, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lakeand sea-witches, and legends of the small 1920s town in Indiana Dark family that served as the location 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 film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the people here. Secrets Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about her mother such local yokel superstitions, and dark tales of the townAndrewe's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerfoundling daughter, and disturbing happenings plague Lolawho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But with every passing hourwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, secrets long buried come painfully to light both his sullen brother and she begins to think that these stories may his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=02413970491788452372

|author=Holly JacksonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A month on Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the explosive conclusion family home in SW England to the Andie Bell mystery, be lighthousekeepers for a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders onsummer, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey in the far NE of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionScottish islands. Here be Vikings, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out kind of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into the nightScottish island. As the town tries Dad is going to heal again, six years on from be automating the events of that nightlantern, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynoldswhich is his specialist thing, older brother while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missinghunt the elusive Greenland shark. And soJulia, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldwell, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthwill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=14052977511510107789

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallJonathan Stroud|title= The Mermaid, the Witch Outlaws Scarlett and the SeaBrowne|rating= 54

|summary= On the pirate ship DoveScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Flora rejecting the girl has assumed the identity draconian conformity of Florian the man in an attempt Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to fit in with wander the wildlands between the crew. Life is hard as a pirateSeven Kingdoms of Britain, trust robbing banks and empathy are the first things shooting other outlaws to be discardedkeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, but anything has to be better than starving on the streetsa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. MeanwhileWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards mythical Free Isles of the DoveLondon Lagoon. Together, headed off to be married to a military they must brave man she's never met on some far-flung colony of eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the Nipran Empire. Neither horrors of them expects post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be thrown together by fate, never mind fall any more accepted there than they are in love…the rest of Britain?|isbn=15362043151406394815

|author=Holly JacksonMercedes Helnwein|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=5 years ago, the tiny town Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifula man with a "real" family, popular Andie Bell disappeared without she is used to not being a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyonepriority in people's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent lives. But when she defends a 'confession' text to his dad and died random boy in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closedclass with her slingshot, so the town and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa her simple existence is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, with the help of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years agochanged for good. But the closer No longer can she getsspend her time writing novels in solitude, the more dangerous for her life now has a boy in it becomesthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=1405293187152905818X

|author=Kat DunnT L Huchu|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= It's ParisRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, 1794. The Revolution is five years old using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the country in the midst dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionariesschool, trying she's been using it to maintain their control by whatever means necessarysupport not only herself, but her younger sister and the Royalistsher aging grandmother. However, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught in a no manthere's land between an evil stalking the two warring factions is the Battalion ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionarycity's daughterchildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the band of outcasts have made search for a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from missing boy at the violent falloutrequest of his dead mother. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescue, Olympe, a girl with a disturbing history She will end up discovering an occult library and powers that might just make her the spark realise that blows up the powder-keg world of revolutionary Parismagic 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=17895436491529039452

|author=Jenny ValentineKristen O'Neal|title=Hello NowLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves 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 ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a smallbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, quiet seaside town after her Mum while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a bigwhile, old house overlooking the sea - which happens Priya becomes concerned. She decides to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just wonsteal her parents't leave – or cancar and drive to Brigid'ts house to check up on her. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality But what she doesn't expect to find there is consumed by a longing for her old life werewolf in London the basement – and anger at another forced change – but this will for that werewolf to be the last time, girl she swears. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating has been talking to online for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes foreverpast few months.|isbn=00074664981683692349

|author= Ashley PostonGoldy Moldavsky|title= 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 jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness|title=BurnThe Last Girl

|genre=Teensteens|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - Rachel Chavez is the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the oath of office for brim with the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father richest children in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon hecity – and Rachel doesn'd hired to help on the farmt belong.''ItShe's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USrich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, there is still a Cold War with the Russiansand most of all, still a concomitant arms race. And she spends the stain majority of racism is just her spare time watching horror movies as crushing - something mixed race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware a source ofcomfort. As is She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the deeply unpleasant town deputy, KelbyMary Shelley Club. But A secret society with one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate worldaim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, there are dragonsyou have failed. The dragons live Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimalthe competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to human in return for gold - they are dragonsget hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, after allRachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755000755501527