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|author=Goldy MoldavskyMax Boucherat|title=The Last GirlLife of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=teensConfident Readers|summary= Rachel Chavez is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled house to the brim with the richest children in the city herself – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties neighbour to some royal family pop in Serbia, and most of allbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, she spends the majority of on her spare time watching horror movies as lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withblanket fort, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with has one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie stylemain intention, and unless someone screamsthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed critter-collecting game that is a hit in the competitionLori's world. But as the pranks escalatefirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Rachel finally feels like then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she has found and her place in this school, things start bestie and nobody else should be able to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up to the prankson her phone screen, and people begin to get hurt. When her safe place in the competition then takes game has been doctored – well, where is a deadly girl to turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.?|isbn=07555015270008666482

|isbnauthor=1406395404Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=2020 has been a strange year: ''I doubt anyone would argue with that statementcan hear the song of the sea. Lots The call of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing)  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and others will worry unnecessarilyplundering the wrecks. Most peopleMira, like her mother before her, from children is one of the seven who swim out to adults will have survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely Council Watch lays a trap to make it worse. And thereend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's also the fact that for far too longfather. Desperate to save him from death, lack of sleep has been lauded Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as a virtue he is secretive and sleep made with only coordinates to seem like lazinessguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Being up earlyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, working late has been praised and as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the ability smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to survive on little sleep has almost become something stop at nothing to put on your CVsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Rob WintersHarry Allen|title=His Name Was WrenChildren of the Sun|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=In September 1944 something came down Ra Eun Seo lives in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, North Korean town and leaving she is a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually wastalented singer. German secret weapon was the local gossipLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, but there should have been an explosion so Seo and a craterher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and there were neither edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of those thingsrice and kimchi at home.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1805140493

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiAlexia Casale|title=YolkSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatIt's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. Shehard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's an allre having to navigate a life-round messy character; and 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 charmlife. June But she comes back fighting, on desperate to avoid the other handpity stares, is and desperate to get back to a complete contrast to Jayne. Shelife that's a typical older sister: as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's smarta new (cute!) boy in school, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the two have barely kept in contact despite living in day to day traumas of all the same city for the past two yearschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. This is until June finds out So even though shecan's sickt dance anymore, and Jayne is the only person might she can turn be able to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.sing her way through instead?|isbn= 03490036960571373801

|author=Becky AlbertalliSimon Fox|title= Simon vsDeadlock|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 Homo Sapiens Agendawhiff 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a great life. He has a close group of friendsgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gaymost delightful way. Only one person knows In thisstory, Gwen and thatArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out only female knight) - something that there was another closeted guy at his schoolArt discovers from her private diaries. Their emails are And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the fear subterfuge of being judgedfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Until one day But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, these emails fall into the wrong handswill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=014135609X1526651793

|author=Anna CareyNick Brooks|title=This is Not the Jess ShowPromise Boys

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate When the usual stresses principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, and three boysfind themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townseemingly, with has a mystery flu keeping lots grudge of people indoorssome description against Principal Moore, and a strange metal deviceeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, with an apple on itand why, that slips out and if any of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesthe boys are innocent, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to will they be responding able to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' lifeclear their names?|isbn=16836919701035003155

|isbn=17124357281919635017|title=Jamie's KeepsakeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Michael GallagherKitt Townsend

|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is herunning around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's just being released from ll have to wait to get an answer to the Southern General Hospitalsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The nurse thinks heBut I'll come back to visit answer the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing thatfirst one: he's been there for a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesgrandmother. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.

|author=Alice OsemanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=SolitaireDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Ant is in Year 12 following Christmas break Eleven at quite a standard school, and feels dead 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 world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid football team, and boringtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She has one real friend; As they're all fired up, straining at the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates leash only a lot of things single- including herself. But suddenlysex school can form, a blog called Solitaire has arrived the talk in class and is pulling pranks throughout the schoolout often turns to sex. And Michael Holden has appeared and Which is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know (or care) why shewhat his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's involvedhad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Whowhether that's behind it? Why does it all seem to set in stone, he can't be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Torisure. And that's life so badly and mostly because of who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger 's been having the relationship and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethe sex with.|isbn=97800075592201529509491

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1800901232|title=LovelessStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first Twelve-year of university and is in -old Hanh wanted to be a desperate struggle to figure herself outfashion designer. She's always been Life in love the rural village where she lived with love. With the idea of loveher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the idea of falling madly for someone smartly-dressed man and finding bliss. But woman came to the reality for her has always been different. She's never had village to offer Hahn a crushjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. She's never been kissed Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. And she's desperate to feel something Only, Hanh and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself other girls were not going to work in any kind of reala shop, tangible 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 physical way for her beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully- she's disgusted by it. But isn't placed rips and distressed seams that what shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's supposed to want? Isn't quite possible that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412XHanh and her co-workers made them.

|author=Arvin AhmadiPatrice Lawrence|title=How It All Blew UpNeedle|rating=43

|summary=18 year old Amir Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is American Iranian, a muslimextremely hard for some people to like, characters and gayreaders both. He struggles Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with his identitya pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, unable to face telling his parents who and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he really '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 ispart of the plot here, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himas Charlene is a wonder knitter, threatening to show his parents photographs and is making something full of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more...to Italy! So begins We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a journey for Amirstore detective, and his familythen force people to give her two days off school, where they all discover more about himwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, and who he really what exactly happens isnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and who he really wants to pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14714099291800901011

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedAnn Sei Lin|title=The Black KidsRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the backdrop sky where soldiers of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a reaction man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the absolution of four police officers for beating power to form paper into whatever she desires – a black manpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, Rodney King, nearly to deathleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Told from Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the perspective of Ashley Bennettmatter, because the novel follows her evolution from Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a silent bystander when confronted with matters of raceshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a woman finding her voice sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and embracing her heritage.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14711881911406399590

|author=Suzanne CollinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesWrath

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refinedMeet Fitz, charming, and one a young Scottish lad full of the frustration at himself. Lockdown is only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonejust over, his parents dead - and yet the facade must he should be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsfree to do what he wants, Coriolanus to go where he wants and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself to the world and secure from putting his place foot in the Capitol for good. But it when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself talks to be a spark in his worldbest friend, in Cassie. They were half of a way he desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could never have imaginedhear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for Is this connected with one of her life in the arena eco- but behind warrior parents saying the scenes, in end of the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will music she survive the Games's dreaming of? Will heIs she just bonkers? And what happens thencan Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=07023001791800900899

|author=James PattersonTori Bovalino|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents last thing Tess Matheson wants to come and get her. They left her there do — especially when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain gets a request for over a hundred books that they are never coming back for her, she continues has to head back there each day, just in casedeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Hawk isnThe boarding school't your ordinary street urchin thoughs headmaster, and a man Tess hates...she has wings, As a petty act of revenge for making her find and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with deliver such a group large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of other childrenthe books, all scribbled with interesting characteristics the ugliest insults she can think of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, thereThey's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought re never meant to the prison next door to where the children livereach him, and then one day Hawk comes home of course. Her plan is to find get her family have been taken away. Where have they been takenanger out like this, and can Hawk rescue then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's too late?t delivered them for her.|isbn=15291200041789098130

|author= Samira AhmedPhilip Reeve|title= Mad, Bad Utterly Dark and Dangerous to Knowthe Face of the Deep|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''In the enda word, we all become stories'' Spending the summer rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Paris sounds like this story set on a dream for most peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, especially artand sea-loverswitches, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about legends of the mess she left behind in ChicagoDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. On a chance encounter with a descendant The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Alexandre Dumasactivity from the Hidden Lands, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey his brother Will who lives in London with him too much science in his head to unveil the truth worry about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumassuch local yokel superstitions, Eugene Delacroix and Lord ByronAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but uncover both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the true story world of the woman and why protecting their island, like it was one that should never have been forgottenor not.|isbn=03490035561788452372

|author=Angela MackKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=I Am UnworthyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Isabel is determined Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the hurt, far NE of the fearScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and the person she becamethat kind of Scottish island. Josh Dad is determined going to keep going, even through be automating the ragelantern, the painwhich is his specialist thing, and using his fists while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to solve any problem or situationhunt the elusive Greenland shark. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him And Julia, well, she will be homesick and his brothers apartalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1510107789

|author=Non PrattJonathan Stroud|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studentScarlett McCain is an outlaw, complete with best friend and rejecting the promise draconian conformity 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 to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, Surviving Towns and then another layer Faith Houses to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and wander the promise of 'treasure' at wildlands between the end Seven Kingdoms of it all. With each parcelBritain, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - robbing banks and painful truths come to light that threaten shooting other outlaws to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow Lake|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentskeep herself alive. But when then she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doormeets Albert Browne, a trail of blood, dark boy with dark powers and her father dying in his studya darker past. And soWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, while he recovers, she is sent off they plan to flee to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as mythical Free Isles of the location for the film that made her parents famousLondon Lagoon. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the people here. Secrets about her mother cannibalistic Tainted and dark tales all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerFree Isles, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not but will they be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks any more accepted there than they are in Harrow Lake.the rest of Britain?|isbn=02413970491406394815

|author=Holly JacksonMercedes Helnwein|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=A month on from the explosive conclusion Gracie Welles has resigned herself to the Andie Bell mysterybeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippapriority in people's viral podcast detailing lives. But when she defends a random boy in her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionclass with her slingshot, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she stumbled out of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries to heal again, six years on from the events of that nightspend her time writing novels in solitude, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And so, alongside for her difficult life as now has a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, boy in it that she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=1405297751152905818X

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallT L Huchu|title= The Mermaid, Library of the Witch and the SeaDead|rating= 4.5

|summary= On the pirate ship DoveRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Flora the girl has assumed the identity using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Florian the man in an attempt Scottish pragmatism) to fit in with take messages from the crewdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Life is hard as a pirateEver since she dropped out of school, trust and empathy are the first things she's been using it to be discardedsupport not only herself, but anything has to be better than starving on her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streetsof Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. MeanwhileSoon, Ropa is pulled into the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's never met on some far-flung colony of ve imagined. Will she find the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects missing children and bring an end to be thrown together by fatethis evil, never mind fall in love…or will it claim her too?|isbn=15362043151529039452

|author=Holly JacksonKristen O'Neal|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=5 years agoHaving 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 tiny town rest of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murderedher life. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyoneShe joins 's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confessionOof Ouch My Bones'' text , an online support group where she talks to his dad a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and died in help each other out, while also providing an apparent suicide escape to just days after joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and closest friends—doesn't respond to the case was closedchat for a while, so the town Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and its families tried moved drive to Brigid's house to check up onher. Now Pippa But what she doesn't expect to find there is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, with a werewolf in the help of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, basement – and Pippa begins for that werewolf to unearth be the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer girl she gets, has been talking to online for the more dangerous it becomespast few months.|isbn=14052931871683692349