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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.''

<!-- Christo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147140739XRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.jpg|link=http://wwwMira, 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/147140739X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[To Kill 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 Kingdom by Alexandra Christo]]=== [[image:3starbargain 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Lira and Elian are both royalty and they are both killers. Lira is the Siren princessWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, with seventeen princes' hearts buried in as her journey takes her from the sand watched streets of her bed. Elian is the Midasan prince, and an infamous Siren hunter. When his friend is murdered, Elian is determined foreign islands to catch the worst Siren heart of them all, the one they call the princesmuggler's baneterritory, and end this war between sea and land. Meanwhile Lira is hunting Elian, desperate Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save herself the future of her home and secure her place as Sea Queenthe ones she holds most dear. When fate throws them together, they embark on a mission for their own ends, but can they really destroy each other? [[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo|Full Review]]|isbn=0008664730}}<!-- McCaughrain -->{{Frontpage|-author=Harry Allen| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Children of the Sun[[image:1406375659.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406375659/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Flying tips for flightless birds is Ra Eun Seo lives in a quirky North Korean town and complex story, told with an elegant simplicity that hooks you from the first few pagesshe is a talented singer. A gentle but gripping exploration of the highs Life is hard and lows of being a young person, of lovefood is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the relationship we have with ourselves meagre rations of rice and otherskimchi at home. [[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain|Full Review]]isbn=1805140493}}<!-- Faulks 7/3 -->{{Frontpage|-author=Alexia Casale| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Sing if you Can't Dance[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[The SeerIt's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seerhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's Curse'' what Ven is billed as dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a pre-teen noveldance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, I would say that it would appeal and desperate to get back to a wide audience interested in fantasy and mythology, as well life that's as normal as just a good taleshe can possibly manage. [[The Seer Meanwhile there's Curse by J J Faulks|Full Review]] <a new (cute!-- Watscon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Piecing) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate.jpg|left So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408897342/ref=nosim?tagisbn=thebookbag-21]]0571373801}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre==[[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson]]===Confident Readers[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jade lives in 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 rough area of Portlandsecret place, Oregon. But she goes to a very posh school and join him on scholarshipthe run.And They get together, as a scholarship girlbut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, Jade knows she must grab every opportunity leaving Archie on the school offers. Her motherlate express to Brighton, toting a care worker, won't be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice creamtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, let alone collegeand the bearer of a whole heap of questions. But why do all the opportunities the school offers Jade seem so, well, ''patronising''? Jade doesn't feel like |isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a charity case. She doesn't feel broken. Her mum is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a good mummost delightful way. It's infuriating. But In this story, when the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarshipGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, how can she say no? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson|Full Review]] <much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -- Barnard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Barnard_Perfectsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" But 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 live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=[[Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Edie McKinley isn't summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the world's greatest studentpolice station as suspects. And she Each, seemingly, has a history grudge of rebellious behaviour. But she has most of that under control now, with some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the help time of her adoptive familyhis murder. But who killed him, her lovely boyfriend and her best friend Bonniewhy, who is a straight A student with a bright future ahead. That isand if any of the boys are innocent, until Edie wakes up one morning will they be able to find the police at her door. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriend, Jackclear their names?|isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack5|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, even with Edie and Edie is about to find out so why - Jack is none other than Mr Cohn, he running around London committing a music teacher at schoolseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'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... [[Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]}}<!-- Watson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Different for Boys|rating=4.5[[image:Watson_Wren.jpg|leftgenre=Teens |linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884933/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Every year on St Stephens DayAnt 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 one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, Wren Silke is chased through the forest 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 warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are Judges single- a group of powerful sex school can form, the talk in class and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an Augur - their sworn enemy - the game would be upout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He' s had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'The Wren Hunt, but whether that'' is s set in a contemporary Ireland where the ancient druidic traditions are still in playstone, he can't be sure. The Judges have dominated And that's mostly because of who he's been having the Augurs by buying up relationship and the land containing the sources of Augur powersex with. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting and are determined to win it back. To this end, Wren has been chosen to infiltrate the house of the prominent Judge, Cassa Harkness, to find the information they need. [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|Full Review]] <!-- Benway -->author=Steve Cole|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Dyslexia Friendly[[image:Benway_Far.jpg|left|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagTwelve-21]]  | style="verticalyear-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Far from old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Having just given up her newrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-born baby for adoption, 16-year-old Grace is desperate dressed man and woman came to look for the one person who could truly understand how she feels. The birth mother that gave her up for adoption when she village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was a babyan opportunity not to be missed. What Grace doesn't expect, is Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to discover that she has siblingsHanoi. A confident Only, loud-mouthed younger sisterHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, Maya, adopted by a wealthy family living just twenty minutes awaythey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And Joaquin, their stoic older brother, hardened by seventeen years in You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and out of foster care. [[Far from beading on the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!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- Miranda -->workers made them.}}|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle[[image:Miranda_Fragments.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 3| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[Fragments Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of the Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost the only boy Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost taken up residence in her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself'son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, Calebyou might perhaps think, died but she still cannot find and the strength to move on with creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her life. So when Calebyounger sister – a younger sister she's mother asks Jessa allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to clean out his roomgive her two days off school, things go from bad to worsewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... [[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]]well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}<!-- Shaw -->{{Frontpage|-author= Ann Sei Lin| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rebel Skies|rating= 5[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake is determined 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 escape from his Home Academy and tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find form paper into whatever she desires – a new home with his dog, Jetpower sought after all across the Empire. He thinks his biggest challenge is going asks her to be getting out and over the wall butcome with him, when he does, he finds this is to leave the least life of his worriesdreary servitude that is all she has known. The governing Well, soon Kurara won'Coalition' is able to track everyone t have any say in the country via matter, because the 'hub chip' in their neck Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and in no time 'she is forced to flee out into the hubbers' (police) are on his trailworld. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, he sky-ship whose express purpose is permitted to join their gang hunt down shikigami, and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards the heavily guarded border with Scotland.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shawwhole world of adventure awaits her…|Full Review]]isbn=1406399590}}<!-- Khan -->{{Frontpage|-author=Marcus Sedgwick| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens[[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.coMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4Lockdown 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.5starThey 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering to Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating to being world is already a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the story of Muznatruth? Well, a shy teenager who is flattered not when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask her out despite interest from several other girls at schoolCassie has gone missing he can't.. However, her delight wavers when she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western culture. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]isbn=1800900899}}<!-- Ahmed -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tori Bovalino| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Devil Makes Three[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagTeens|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[LoveWorking 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, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5stara man Tess hates.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate As a petty act of revenge for making her find and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, deliver such a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagerslarge request, she 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 struggling to convince get her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. Howeveranger out like this, in Mayaand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make t delivered them for her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]isbn=1789098130}}<!-- Holland -->{{Frontpage|-author=Philip Reeve| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwIn a word, rich.amazonThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagThere are troll people on it, and sea-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in 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 kingdom Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Sempera. In Semperaactivity from the Hidden Lands, everything is reckoned his brother Will who lives in terms of time. Wages come London with too much science in the form of blood-coinshis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeksAndrewe's foundling daughter, months or even who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years of lifeago. In Sempera, as you'd imagineBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rich live for a long time and the poor do world of protecting their island, like it or not. In debt |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and struggling to afford the rentShark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, Jules decides to ignore has been packed off with her father's warnings parents and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging their cat from the family home in SW England to the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects be lighthousekeepers for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming upsummer, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward in the far NE of Sempera's queenthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, and secrets long concealed thatkind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, if revealedwhich is his specialist thing, would change everythingwhile mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark... [[Everless by Sara Holland And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|Full Review]]isbn=1510107789}}<!-- Zurcher -->{{Frontpage|-author= Jonathan Stroud| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]But then she meets Albert Browne, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying notedark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his collegeWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, as usualthey must brave man-eating wildlife, but when the two girls cannibalistic Tainted and their mother arrive to pick him upall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they are told he does not work be any more accepted there. In fact, everyone than they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like are in the beginning rest of a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brown, but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]] <!-- Ingemundsen -->|-Britain?|isbn=1406394815| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the book is about. It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]] <!-- Norris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Dawson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]] |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonMercedes Helnwein|title=Sunflowers in FebruarySlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the roada man with a "real" family, she knows immediately that something is wrongused to not being a priority in people's lives. Then But when she sees her body lying defends a random boy in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it. A disembodied ghost, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own death, as her friends and family struggle to deal class with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despairslingshot, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownsimple existence is changed for good. She's always had a strong bond with No longer can she spend her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else cantime writing novels in solitude, and gives for her the chance to return to the living world. Lily life now has a lot of unfinished business. And top on boy in it that list is making her killer payshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerT L Huchu|title= RenegadesThe Library of the Dead|rating= 34.5

|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this worldRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority in using Zimbabwean magic (and a world bit of chaos and disorder, Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Renegades fought dead of Edinburgh for freedom 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 justiceher aging grandmother. Victorious in driving their opponentsHowever, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with there's an extraordinary range of abilities are now evil stalking the lawmakers and leaders ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the futurecity's children. Soon, governing Ropa is pulled into the search for a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are missing boy at the heroes request of society; the role models young children look his dead mother. She will end up to, discovering an occult library and realise that the officers people look to for justice world of magic is far bigger and strengthmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. All except Will she find the fraction of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting missing children and planning until they are able bring an end to get back what was stolen from them.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldKristen O'Neal|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=In 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 ''Ballad for a Mad GirlOof Ouch My Bones'', Grace becomes obsessed an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with solving 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 mystery of Hannah Holt, chat for a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agowhile, after becoming convinced she has encountered HannahPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's ghosthouse to check up on her. The more But what she investigates, the more she is convinced Hannahdoesn's case t expect to find there is a werewolf in some way linked the basement – and for that werewolf to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agobe the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1683692349