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|author=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-collecting 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
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, 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. 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 bargain 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. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
|isbn=0008664730
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{{Frontpage
|author=Harry Allen
|title=Children of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= 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
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|author=Alexia Casale
|title=Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) 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. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?
|isbn=0571373801
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{{Frontpage
|author=Simon Fox
|title=Deadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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 secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
|isbn=1839944420
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziLex Croucher|title=PetGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. 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. 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=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by the angelsSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, those who rid the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymore. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds so why is he running around London committing a little onto one series of her motherrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes ll have to wait to life and declares that it is here get an answer to hunt the monstersecond question because I avoid spoilers. Though Jam tries to convince it that all But I'll answer the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there is first one, still, and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemption: for his grandmother...|isbn=0571355110
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|author=Leigh BardugoPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Louise Simonson and Kit Seatonis 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, 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 single-sex 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. 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. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Wonder Woman: WarbringerStitched 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 Graphic Novelones 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=DianaBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, being unique on characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her islandson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the victim of plot here, as Charlene is a lot of tauntswonder knitter, and claims is making something full of nepotism. Itlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's only allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her unique statusbelligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her mother being Queentwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, that only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with any standing at the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after allacross the Empire. He asks her to come with him, her naysayers declare – even though to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has clearly fought to be a strong young womanknown. Perhaps too strong for Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the islandmatter, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for because the World of MenMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and this Diana she is forced to flee out into the heroine world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of yet another Wonder Woman origin storyfrustration at himself. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance 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 running racedesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the survivor enigmatic – saying she drags could hear a subhuman hum coming from the waters earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is only going to disturb already a lot moredone 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=14012825551800900899
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|author=Tanya LandmanTori Bovalino|title=Jane EyreThe 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 Retellingman 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=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A young womanIn a word, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a dreary schoolpeculiar island called Wildsea, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like British but way west, beyond the life she wants – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and with only one jobsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to tutor a young half-French girlkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, whose father is almost always absentwhere no ship dare sail. When he does turn up he seems 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 be darkworry about such local yokel superstitions, brooding and troubled – but thatAndrewe's nothing compared to the darkerfoundling daughter, more broody and even more troubled secret in who washed up out of the housesea one day eleven years ago. YesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, if you know Jane Eyre then you know both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rest – but if you don'tworld of protecting their island, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn tolike it or not.|isbn=17811291261788452372
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Permanent RecordJulia 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
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{{Frontpage
|author= Jonathan Stroud
|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= Scarlett 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. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. 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 in the rest of Britain?
|isbn=1406394815
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|author=Mercedes Helnwein
|title=Slingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Pablo, Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a college drop-out"real" family, she is working at used to not being a New York bodega. He's massively priority in debt, hepeople's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy lives. But when she defends a random boy in creating unusual snacks her class with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveningher slingshot, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves her simple existence is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipchanged for good. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyoneNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just for her life now has a love story though, and actually boy in it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0349003459152905818X
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|author= Alexandra ChristoT L Huchu|title= Into The Library of the Crooked PlaceDead|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= In Ropa Moyo is a world thriving with black ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic, four young crooks embark on (and a quest bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take down messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their criminal leader after they discover 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's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the plot behind 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 dangerous new magicthan 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}}{{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 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 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 the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=12503183781683692349
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