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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 in Ireland by Kurara has spent her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from entire life as a servant on the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe Midori, a massive dining hall floating in November 1918the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Stella is sent when a man named Himura arrives to live with tell her estranged aunt who runs that she is a boarding house. This coincides Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a time of great change for power sought after all across the country as women are allowed Empire. He asks her to come with him, to vote for leave the first timelife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Stella is determined to follow Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in her mother's footsteps to help make historythe matter, and whilst her age denies her because the ability to vote herselfMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she goes is forced to great lengths flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker hunt down shikigami, and former childhood friend a whole world of her mother is able to cast hers.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick<!-- Dawson -->|title=Wrath*[[image:Dawson_Grave|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=https://wwwMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.amazonLockdown 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.coThey 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.uk/gp/product/1781126046Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal?ieIs 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=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]4.5|genre=Teens|summary== [[imageWorking all summer in her 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 requested the books:4Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course.5starHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.jpgNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|linkisbn=Category:{1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly=5|Dyslexia Friendly]]genre=Confident Readers Since Eliza died|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, since beyond the night Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the car crash Dark family that took her lifehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Sam is a broken soulwhere no ship dare sail. He is lost without The current Darks are the girl he lovesWatcher, Andrewe, feeling as though a part who has to keep notes of him died that night activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with toomuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But he is desperate when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and he cannot live without Elizahis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her peculiar healing powers parents and wonders if she might their cat from the family home in SW England to be able to help himlighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. However Here be Vikings, finding his Aunt Marie leads him that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to discover be automating the Milk Manlantern, which causes Sam is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his grieving state algae behind to make a pact with forces he doesn't understandhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1510107789}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaJonathan Stroud|title= This Mortal CoilThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|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=Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city'There are yet s children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more unholy discoveries withindangerous 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 foul ?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for your eyes the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, 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 while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to look uponsteal her parents'car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}}
