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|author=Alice OsemanMax Boucherat|title=LovelessThe 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of university and is the deep, the answering beat in a desperate struggle to figure herself outmy heart. She's always been in love with love' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. With Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the idea of love, seven who swim out to survey the idea of falling madly for someone ruins – rescuing any survivors and finding blissany treasure that lies within. But when the reality for her has always been different. SheCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's never had a crush. Sheleader and Mira's never been kissedfather. And she's desperate Desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind of realsave him from death, tangible Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and physical way for with only coordinates to guide her - , she's disgusted by itsets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But isn't that With only nine days to unearth what shemight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's supposed territory, Mira must be determined to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed stop at nothing to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't save the future of her home and the ones she?holds most dear.|isbn=000824412X0008664730

|author=Arvin AhmadiHarry Allen|title=How It All Blew UpChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=18 year old Amir Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is American Iranian, a muslim, and gaytalented singer. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really Life is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics hard and runs away...food is difficult to Italy! So begins a journey for Amircome by, so Seo and his family, where they all discover more about him, her friends Nari and who he really isMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and who he really wants edible grasses to besupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=14714099291805140493

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedAlexia Casale|title=The Black KidsSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds ReedIt's debut novel 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 set against dealing with after collapsing on stage in the backdrop middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the 1992 Los Angeles riotspity stares, and desperate to get back to a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a black mannew (cute!) boy in school, Rodney Kingher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, nearly and just the day to death. Told from the perspective day traumas of Ashley Bennett, all the novel follows challenges her body continues to throw at her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of raceto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to a woman finding her voice and embracing sing her heritage.way through instead?|isbn=14711881910571373801

|author=Suzanne CollinsSimon Fox|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Coriolanus Snow Late one night Graham Blake is refinedlate back from his shift on the force, charmingand then suddenly rings Archie, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, his parents dead - and yet join him on the facade must be maintainedrun. As the 10th Hunger Games begins They get together, Coriolanus and other students of but barely begin to smell the Academy become the first Mentors whiff of Southern trains when the tributes in father is arrested, leaving Archie on the games. This is late express to Brighton, toting a tin his chance father was determined to prove himself to the world keep away from his colleagues, and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances bearer of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world whole heap of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooquestions. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791839944420

|author=James PattersonLex Croucher|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, every day, for yearsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tinyIn this story, Gwen and although she's almost certain that Arthur have been betrothed since they are never coming back for herwere tiny, she continues much to head back there each daytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, just is in case. Hawk isnlove with Bridget (the kingdom't your ordinary street urchin though..s only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries.she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a group boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together when really they've made are enabling their own familyother romantic attachments. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualas their impending wedding draws ever closer, there's will they find a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have way in which they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Madboth truly be themselves, Bad and Dangerous or are they destined to Know|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like live a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.lie their whole lives?|isbn=03490035561526651793

|author=Angela MackNick Brooks|title=I Am UnworthyPromise Boys

|summary= Isabel When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the fear, and the person she becamepolice station as suspects. Josh is determined to keep going Each, even through the rageseemingly, the painhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and using each could have been there at the time of his fists to solve any problem or situationmurder. But he has secrets that threaten to tear who killed him , and his brothers apart. When Josh why, and Isabel's worlds collideif any of the boys are innocent, can will they make be able to clear their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run outnames?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1035003155

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1919635017|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was Solomon Klyne isn't a beautifulbad lad, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as so why is he running around London committing a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise series of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it robberies? And how did he learn to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed crack safes? You'll have to a complete stranger, and then another layer wait to another person and another, each containing get an item unique answer to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasuresecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I' at ll answer the end of it allfirst one: for his grandmother.. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|author=Kat EllisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Harrow LakeDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, daughter and is surprised to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she so his desk is saying goodbye one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsprimary school days together. But when she is found by her father As they's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doorre all fired up, straining at the leash only a trail of bloodsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and her father dying in his studyout often turns to sex. And so Which is confusing for Ant, while as he recovers, she doesn't know what his score is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town where his achievements in Indiana that served as the location regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the film ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn's set in stone, he can't rightbe sure. There And that's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales mostly because of the townwho he's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, been having the relationship and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But the sex with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=02413970491529509491

|authorisbn=Holly Jackson1800901232|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=A month on from Brave. Charlene, the explosive conclusion 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to the Andie Bell mysterylike, a new normal has settled over Little Kiltoncharacters and readers both. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey Kicked out of discovering the truth about Andie multiple homes and Salschools, she's deaths has gained massive media attentionfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Cara and has taken up residence in her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out tempestuous personality may be in need of his housea comfort blanket, bleedingyou might perhaps think, and disappeared into the night. As creation of one such item is part of the town tries to heal againplot here, six years on from the events of that nightas Charlene is a wonder knitter, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one and is making something full of Pippalove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friends has gone missingallowed contact with no more. And soWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, alongside and then force people to give her difficult life two days off school, when she shouts someone down as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldexpletively ignorant. And then... well, she what exactly happens is once again taken down a darknot for me to say, twisted path only to discover the truthremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14052977511800901011

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAnn Sei Lin|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRebel Skies

|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the pirate ship DoveMidori, Flora a massive dining hall floating in the girl has assumed the identity sky where soldiers of Florian the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man in an attempt named Himura arrives to fit in with the crew. Life tell her that she is hard as a pirateCrafter like him, trust and empathy are someone with the first things to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhile, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married power to form paper into whatever she desires – a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of power sought after all across the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects He asks her to be thrown together by fatecome with him, never mind fall in love…|isbn=1536204315}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Jackson|title=A Good Girl's Guide to Murder|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=5 years ago, leave the tiny town life of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifuldreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyonesoon Kurara won's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to his dad and died t have any say in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closedmatter, so because the town Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa she is determined forced to prove that Sal was innocent, with flee out into the help of his brother Raviworld. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, and Pippa begins a sky-ship whose express purpose is to unearth the dark truth about the beautifulhunt down shikigami, innocent queen bee and a whole world of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.adventure awaits her…|isbn=14052931871406399590

|author=Kat DunnMarcus Sedgwick|title=Dangerous RemedyWrath

|summary= It's ParisMeet Fitz, 1794a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The Revolution Lockdown is five years old only just over, and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionarieshe should be free to do what he wants, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, go where he wants and the Royalistswith whom he wants, still loyal but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to monarchy intenthis best friend, Cassie. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion They were half of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughterdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the band of outcasts have made enigmatic – saying she could hear a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens subhuman hum coming from the violent falloutearth. But they may have gotten in over their heads Is this connected with their latest rescue, Olympe, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make one of her eco-warrior parents saying the spark that blows up end of the powder-keg world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of revolutionary Paris? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |isbn=17895436491800900899

|author=Jenny ValentineTori Bovalino|title=Hello NowThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a smallrequest 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, quiet seaside town after her Mum and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) find and settle into deliver such a biglarge request, old house overlooking Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the sea - which happens to contain a strangebooks, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in scribbled with the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or ugliest insults she canthink of. They'tre never meant to reach him, of course. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she Her plan is consumed by a longing for to get her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but out like this will be the last time, she swearsand then take them all off before delivering them. This world is quietNo harm done… Or it would be, dull and yet suffocating if someone hadn't delivered them for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=00074664981789098130

|author= Ashley PostonPhilip Reeve|title= Bookish Utterly Dark and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year Face of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness|title=BurnDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''On In a cold Sunday evening word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in early 1957 - this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the very dayScillies. There are troll people on it, in factand sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office 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 second time as President Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with her father too much science in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired his head to help on the farm.''Itworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USfoundling daughter, there is still a Cold War with who washed up out of the Russianssea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah both his sullen brother and her Japanese American friend Jason his curious ward are only too well aware of. As is thrust into the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out protecting their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragonsisland, after alllike it or not.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001788452372

|author=Jacqueline WilsonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Love FrankieJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been diagnosed packed off with MS, when your dad has decided her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to leave her be lighthousekeepers for another womana summer, when your older sister has turned into in the far NE of the girliest girl who ever livedScottish islands. Here be Vikings, andthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, above allwhich is his specialist thing, when Sally and while mum will be leaving her mates are bullying you at schoolcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Oh And Julia, well, she will be homesick and when Sam, your best friend since forever, alone – until she suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him backfinds company one night. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 1510107789

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedJonathan Stroud|title= Yes No Maybe So The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''We might give it our all Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and crash Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and burnshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going forthen she meets Albert Browne, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin a dark boy with campaigning in time for dark powers and a special electiondarker past. When his mother encourages him With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted flee to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear mythical Free Isles of speaking to the publicLondon Lagoon. Maya is a PakistaniTogether, they must brave man-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationeating wildlife, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things cannibalistic Tainted and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be all the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither horrors of them really want post-apocalyptic society to be therereach the Free Isles, but as the campaign goes on will they discover that be any more accepted there than they care, a lot, about are in the election - and maybe even about each otherrest of Britain?|isbn=14711846681406394815

|author=AkalaMercedes Helnwein|title=The Dark LadySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=''For Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, secret illegitimate daughter of a boy thief man with brown skin, inherited from a mother who abandoned him"real" family, life she is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems used to represent not being a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. Itpriority in people's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choiceslives. But there are pleasures toowhen she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, and her simple existence is changed for Henrygood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespearefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693152905818X

|author= Alyssa SheinmelT L Huchu|title= What Kind The Library of Girlthe Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Ropa Moyo is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkera 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 girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave been using it to support not only herself, but her, younger sister and her whole world is tipped upside downaging grandmother. Her relationship has just ended and now sheHowever, there's an evil stalking the talk ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the schoolcity's children. Mike was Soon, Ropa is pulled into the most popular 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 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}}{{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 school who was always so in love with constant pain for the rest of herlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', everyone knew thatan 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, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her and some donclosest friends—doesn't, but one thing is respond to the chat for surea while, this isnPriya 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 going expect to blow over any time soonfind 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=03490032971683692349