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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the road, she knows immediately Who knew that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin what I really needed to describe read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A disembodied ghost In this story, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own deathGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, as her friends and family struggle much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fallout from the hitkingdom's only female knight) -and-run something that killed Art discovers from herprivate diaries. With no idea how to move on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Lily starts to despaircreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's always had But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else way in which they canboth truly be themselves, and gives her the chance to return or are they destined to the living world. Lily has live a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerNick Brooks|title= RenegadesPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once When the minority in a world principal (headmaster) of chaos and disorderUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Renegades fought for freedom and justicepolice station as suspects. Victorious in driving their opponents Each, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundseemingly, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range has a grudge of abilities are now some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the lawmakers and leaders time of the futurehis murder. But who killed him, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up towhy, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction if any of Anarchists that hide in the darknessboys are innocent, plotting and planning until will they are be able to get back what was stolen from them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn''Ballad for t a Mad Girl''bad lad, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery so why is he running around London committing a series of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's ghostll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. The more she investigates, But I'll answer the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agofirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage<!-- Wilson -->|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix*[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|lefttitle=Different for Boys|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]5|genre===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]===Teens [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Lincoln live on Earthasiais surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space so his desk is scarce one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and energy two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and food are rationedout often turns to sex. Education Which is minimal and mostly focused around searching confusing for newAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, efficient food sourceswhere his achievements in that regard lie. Storm He's mother has died had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasiahas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 's overcrowded experienced', but whether that'shelterss set in stone, he can't be sure. And that', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincolns mostly because of who he's sister is dying from been having the blistering disease relationship and he has no access the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the healthcare that could save rural village where she lived with her. It's a meanfamily was happy, if not prosperous, desperate existence for them both so when the smartly-dressed man and so they are first woman came to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for village to offer Hahn a new mission job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the neighbouring continent of Piloriamini-bus to Hanoi. The aim is Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that work in a virus shop, they were to kill them can be engineered work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the citizens of Earthasia will have access to legs? The ones with the space artfully-placed rips and abundant food sources Piloria offers..distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Patrice Lawrence|title=My Sweet Orange TreeNeedle
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|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'It's just that sometimesof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Zeze, you're too naughtycharacters and readers both.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorKicked out of multiple homes and schools, Zeze – heshe's fostering with a young tykepleasant yoga tutor, and everyone in his largeAnnie, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks has taken up residence in the neighbourhood – knows her son Blake's old room while he's skilled at being up to no gooduni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, that you might perhaps he was born with a little think, and the creation of one such item is part of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to readplot here, even when he's only fiveas Charlene is a wonder knitter, the precocious brat and is forced to face making something that might be the changing full of him, once and love for all her younger sister – schoola younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. This time of change is also featuring We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a move of homestore detective, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes and then force people to feature the titular treegive her two days off school, which almost works when she shouts someone down as a confessional cum best friendexpletively ignorant. And then... Whether either the new home or the school will get well, what exactly happens is not for me to change Zezesay, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonAnn Sei Lin|title= Star by StarRebel Skies|rating= 3.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Ireland by 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 suffragette motherthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. When He asks her mother dies from to come with him, to leave the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in November 1918the matter, Stella because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is sent to live hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of 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 the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her estranged aunt boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who runs requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a boarding houseman Tess hates. This coincides with As a time petty act of great change revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the country as women are allowed ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to vote get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the first timeDeep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. Stella There is determined certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that 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 Watcher, Andrewe, who has to follow keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in her motherLondon with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's footsteps to help make historyfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and whilst her age denies the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the ability family home in SW England to vote herselfbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, she goes to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her mother is able career in algae behind to cast hershunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1510107789
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|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= A life threatening virus Scarlett McCain is spreading through an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the United StatesSeven Kingdoms of Britain, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trustrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanityBut then she meets Albert Browne, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new dark boy with dark powers and stronger strains at a frightening pacedarker past. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force they plan to flee to work in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from mythical Free Isles of the State and not to trust them an inchLondon Lagoon. Set in AmericaTogether, but not an America we would recognisethey must brave man-eating wildlife, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors cannibalistic Tainted and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the StateFree Isles, remain but will they be any more accepted there than they are in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingMercedes Helnwein|title= WitchbornSlingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, too foul for your eyes using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to look upon'' Enter take messages from the Elizabethan world dead of 1577Edinburgh for their living relatives. A world Ever since she dropped out of intrigueschool, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced she's been using it to flee from support not only herself, but her home after the devastating death of younger sister and her Motheraging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed a witchruined streets of Edinburgh, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at targeting the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes to London but shecity's not alonechildren. Endangered and being followedSoon, Alyce Ropa is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will find end up discovering an occult library and realise that she the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever thought possiblecould've imagined. And Alyce, although Will she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal find the throne missing children and the other determined bring an end to keep it…this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungKristen O'Neal|title= The Road to Ever AfterLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeurHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, and we watch as Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she gradually softens towards him and they become friendsmay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. So far, so She joins ''Driving Miss DaisyOof Ouch My Bones'', an apt comparison in online support group where she talks to a book which references several well-loved classic filmsbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. But When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the obvious similarity ends therechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Davy, hired She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to take Miss Flint check up on her final road trip, . But what she doesn't expect to find there is thirteen years old a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has not been talking to online for the foggiest idea how to drive a carpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1683692349
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