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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.''

<!-- Killeen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1474942385Rosevear, 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/1474942385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen]]=== [[image:4But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] SarahDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as WWII he is about secretive and with only coordinates to break outguide her, finds herself alone after 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 mother is shot father, as they try her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to escape the country. She meets a mysterious man and, in a fit heart of dangerous altruism, saves him from arrest by the soldiers. This reckless act changes everything for Sarahsmuggler's territory, who finds herself recruited as a spy and sent Mira must be determined to infiltrate a girl's school full of stop at nothing to save the daughters future of the great her home and good of the Reich. Her mission? To befriend the daughter of a nuclear scientist and get access to his research. Sarah might be Jewish but ones she is also blonde-haired and blue-eyedholds most dear. But will this be enough to maintain her cover? The tiniest slip could be fatal... [[Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen|Full Review]]isbn=0008664730}}<!-- House -->{{Frontpage|-author=Harry Allen| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Children of the Sun|rating=5[[image:140637167X.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140637167X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food 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 meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=[[The Goose Road by Rowena House]]===5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] summary=It's 1916 and 14 year old Angélique and her mother are struggling hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to keep the family farm running while their menfolk fight on navigate a distant battlefield. When the Requisition soldiers visit a second time, claiming all the farmlife-changing disability too, but that's remaining livestock apart from their flock what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of Toulouse geese, Angélique thinks things can't get any worsea dance performance that was going to change her life. Butshe comes back fighting, of coursedesperate to avoid the pity stares, they do. Her mother is taken ill and Angélique discovers secret debts desperate to get back to a life that threaten their home's as normal as she can possibly manage. The situation seems hopeless until Angélique Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and her Uncle Gustav hatch a plan that could save just the farm: a plan that will require Angélique to embark on a long journey across France with the only thing they have left day to day traumas of any value – all the geesechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. [[The Goose Road by Rowena House|Full Review]] <!-- Christo --> So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|-isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Simon Fox|title=Deadlock[[image:147140739X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/147140739X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo]]=== [[image:3starLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Lira and Elian are both royalty and they are both killers. Lira is the Siren princess They get together, with seventeen princes' hearts buried in but barely begin to smell the sand whiff of her bed. Elian Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Midasan prince, and an infamous Siren hunter. When late express to Brighton, toting a tin his friend is murdered, Elian is father was determined to catch keep away from his colleagues, and the worst Siren bearer of them all, the one they call the prince's bane, a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and end this war between sea and land. Meanwhile Lira is hunting Elian, desperate Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to save herself and secure her place as Sea Queen. When fate throws them togetherread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, they embark on it lifted my spirits in a mission for their own endsmost delightful way. In this story, but can Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they really destroy each other? [[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo|Full Review]] <were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -- McCaughrain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1406375659something that Art discovers from her private diaries.jpg|link=http://www 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406375659/ref=nosim?tag 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=thebookbag-21]]1526651793}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|===[[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain]]==rating=4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Flying tips for flightless birds summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a quirky and complex storymurdered, told with an elegant simplicity that hooks you from three boys find themselves called into the first few pagespolice station as suspects. A gentle but gripping exploration Each, seemingly, has a grudge of the highs some description against Principal Moore, and lows of being a young personeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, of loveand why, friends and if any of the relationship we have with ourselves and others. [[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrainboys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|Full Review]]isbn=1035003155}}<!-- Faulks 7/3 -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1919635017| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[The SeerSolomon Klyne isn's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}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'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...}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]{{FrontpageAlthough ''The Seer's Curse'' |author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is billed as in Year Eleven at quite a pre-teen novel, I would say that standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it would appeal to a wide audience interested in fantasy and mythologyseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, as well as just a good taleso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. [[The Seer As they's Curse by J J Faulks|Full Review]] <!re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-- Watscon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Piecingsex school can form, the talk in class and out 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.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co He's had a casual relationship, a 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.uk/dp/1408897342/ref=nosim?tag And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1529509491}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=[[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson]]5|genre===Dyslexia Friendly[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jade lives in Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a rough area of Portland, Oregonfashion designer. But Life in the rural village where she goes to a very posh school on scholarship.Andlived with her family was happy, as a scholarship girlif not prosperous, Jade knows she must grab every 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 school offersmini-bus to Hanoi. Her mother Only, a care worker, won't be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice creamHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, let alone collegethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But why do all You know those jeans you really wanted: the opportunities ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the school offers Jade seem legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so, well, ''patronising''soft when you touched them? Jade doesn It't feel like a charity cases quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. She doesn't feel broken. Her mum is a good mum. It's infuriating. But, when the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarship, how can she say no? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|Full Review]] <!-- Barnard -->rating=3|-genre=Teens| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Barnard_PerfectBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[GoodbyeSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, Perfect by Sara Barnard]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Edie McKinley isn't and the creation of one such item is part of the world's greatest student. And she has plot here, as Charlene is a history of rebellious behaviour. But wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she has most of that under control now, 's allowed contact with the help of no more. We see Charlene prove her adoptive familybelligerence with a store detective, her lovely boyfriend and then force people to give her best friend Bonnietwo days off school, who is a straight A student with a bright future aheadwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... That well, what exactly happens isnot for me to say, until Edie wakes up one morning only to find the police at her doorremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriend, Jack. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack, even with Edie and Edie is about to find out why - Jack is none other than Mr Cohn, a music teacher at school. [[Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]isbn=1800901011}}<!-- Watson -->{{Frontpage|-author= Ann Sei Lin| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rebel Skies|rating= 5[[image:Watson_Wren.jpg|leftgenre= Teens|linksummary=http://wwwKurara 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884933/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5starHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won''Every year on St Stephens Dayt have any say in the matter, Wren Silke because the Midori is chased through the forest in destroyed by a warped version of monstrous paper spirit known as a childhood game. Her pursuers are Judges shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky- ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a group whole world of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an Augur - their sworn enemy - the game would be upadventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.''5|genre=Teens''The Wren Hunt'' is set in |summary=Meet Fitz, a contemporary Ireland where the ancient druidic traditions are still in play. The Judges have dominated the Augurs by buying up the land containing the sources young Scottish lad full of Augur powerfrustration at himself. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting Lockdown is only just over, and are determined he should be free to win it back. To this enddo what he wants, Wren has been chosen to infiltrate the house of the prominent Judge, Cassa Harknessgo where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to find 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 information they needearth. [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Benway -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Benway_FarIs 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.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/ref=nosim?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1800900899}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating===[[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensTeens|Teens]] Having just given up summary= Working all summer in her new-born baby for adoption, 16-year-old Grace boarding school's library is desperate the last thing Tess Matheson wants to look for the one person who could truly understand how do — especially when she feels. The birth mother that gave her up gets a request for adoption when she was over a baby. What Grace doesn't expect, is to discover hundred books that she has siblingsto deliver herself. A confident, loud-mouthed younger sisterWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, Maya, adopted by and a wealthy family living just twenty minutes awayman Tess hates. And Joaquin, their stoic older brotherAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, hardened by seventeen years in and out Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of foster care. [[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!-- Miranda -->|-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.| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve[[image:Miranda_Fragments.jpg|lefttitle=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[Fragments 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 Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4Scillies. 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has lost to keep notes of activity from the only boy she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since JessaHidden 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 ex-boyfriendfoundling daughter, Caleb, died but she still cannot find who washed up out of the strength to move on with her lifesea one day eleven years ago. So But when Caleb's mother asks Jessa to clean out Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his roomcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, things go from bad to worselike it or not. [[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]]isbn=1788452372}}<!-- Shaw -->{{Frontpage|-author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Julia and the Shark[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="verticalJulia, our pre-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4teen 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is determined going to escape from be automating the lantern, which is his Home Academy and to find a new home with his dogspecialist thing, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge is going while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be getting out and over hunt the wall butelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, when he doeswell, he she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds this is the least of his worriescompany one night. |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The governing 'Coalition' Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is able an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to track everyone in wander the country via wildlands between the 'hub chip' in their neck Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trailshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a gang of ''outwalker'' kidsdarker past. After proving his worthWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, he is permitted they plan to join their gang and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards flee to the mythical Free Isles of the heavily guarded border with ScotlandLondon Lagoon.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]] <!Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post- Khan -->apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|-isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot [[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]] 3| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely.5starAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering to the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating to being But when she defends a Muslim random boy in modern Britain. It tells the story of Muznaher class with her slingshot, a shy teenager who her simple existence is flattered when Arifchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask for her out despite interest from several other girls at school. However, her delight wavers when life now has a boy in it that she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western culturenever asked for: Wade Scholfield. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]isbn=152905818X}}<!-- Ahmed -->{{Frontpage|-author= T L Huchu| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|leftgenre= Teens|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[LoveRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Hate using Zimbabwean magic (and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the story dead of Maya, a Muslim Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagersschool, she is struggling 's been using it to convince support not only herself, but her parents to allow younger sister and her to move away to attend universityaging grandmother. However, in Mayathere's casean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, things are more complicated than usualtargeting the city's children. Soon, after instances Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of Islamophobia make her parents extra protectivehis dead mother. [[Love, Hate She will end up discovering an occult library and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]realise that the world of magic 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= 1529039452<!-- Holland -->}}|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kristen O'Neal[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-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 the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]] <!-- Zurcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning 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 -->|-| 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... 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