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{{Frontpage|classauthor=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-"wikitable" cellpaddingcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary="15"''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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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
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|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'Ballad ll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a Mad Girl''standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Grace becomes obsessed so his desk is one of four with solving both his best buddy from the mystery of Hannah Holtfootball team, 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 leash only a local girl who disappeared twentysingle-three years agosex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahas he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's ghost. The more she investigateshad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the more she is convinced Hannahladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's case is set in some way linked to her own Motherstone, he can't be sure. And that's death, a former classmate mostly because of Hannahwho he's who died in a strange accident two years agobeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to 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 legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{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
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|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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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaMarcus Sedgwick|title= This Mortal CoilWrath|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 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: Mr 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. Her plan is to 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 Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|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, 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 keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much 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 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 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 family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
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|summary= A life threatening virus Scarlett McCain is spreading through an outlaw, rejecting the United Statesdraconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, an already broken country a dark boy with dark powers and a Government that many do not trustdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. The top scientists Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are frantically trying in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to produce being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a vaccine man with a "real" family, she is used to save humanity, but it seems not being a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at priority in people's lives. But when she defends a frightening pacerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. Catarina No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has lived alone and a boy in hiding it that she never asked for : Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the past two yearsDead|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 brilliant father was rounded aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up by discovering an occult library and realise that the State world of magic is far bigger and taken by force to work in more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the national laboratories. His last message missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her was too?|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 hide from come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the State and not to trust them an inchrest of her life. Set in AmericaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', but not an America we would recognise, most online support group where she talks to a bunch of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkersother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, protected by air lock doors while also providing an escape to just joke and bug free conditionsmess around. Others, less trusting When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Statechat for a while, remain Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal 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 hiding on the surface, hoping basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infectedpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1683692349
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