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|author= Jonathan StroudMax Boucherat|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting We meet Lori on the draconian conformity of first evening she's got the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses house to herself – no neighbour to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveon her lonesome. But then What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she meets Albert Brownehas one main intention, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan that is to flee log on to Voxminer, the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Togetherworld-building, they must brave mancritter-eating wildlifecollecting 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 cannibalistic Tainted server she and all the horrors her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Islestampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but will they be any more accepted there than they are and her safe place in the rest of Britaingame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14063948150008666482

|author=Mercedes HelnweinRachel Greenlaw|title=SlingshotCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely''I can hear the song of the sea. As a secret illegitimate daughter The call of a man with a "real" familythe deep, she is used to not being a priority the answering beat in peoplemy heart.'s lives' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. But when she defends a random boy in Mira, like her class with mother before her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldlies within.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of But when the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is Council Watch lays a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) trap to take messages from end the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of schoolwrecking, shethey capture the island's leader and Mira's been using it father. Desperate to support not only herselfsave him from death, but her younger sister Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her aging grandmother, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. HoweverWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, there's an evil stalking as her journey takes her from the ruined watched streets of Edinburgh, targeting foreign islands to the heart of the citysmuggler's children. Soonterritory, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the request future of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library her home and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than ones she ever could've imaginedholds most dear. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 15290394520008664730

|author=Kristen O'NealHarry Allen|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesChildren of the Sun

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be Ra Eun Seo lives in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where a North Korean town and she talks to is a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessestalented singer. They talk about their troubles Life is hard and help each other outfood is difficult to come by, while also providing an escape to just joke so Seo and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car tree bark and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect edible grasses to find there is a werewolf in supplement the basement – meagre rations of rice and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthskimchi at home.|isbn=16836923491805140493

|author=Goldy MoldavskyAlexia Casale|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnSing if you Can't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganDance

|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (you'who needs sleep? re having to navigate a life- Ichanging disability too, but that've got loads s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilychange her life. Most peopleBut she comes back fighting, from children desperate to adults will have avoid the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely pity stares, and desperate to get back to make it worsea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. And Meanwhile there's also the fact that for far too longa new (cute!) boy in school, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made her music A Level performance piece to try to seem like laziness. Being up earlysort out, working late has been praised and just the ability day to survive on little sleep has almost become something day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to put on your CVnavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801

|author=Rob WintersSimon Fox|title=His Name Was WrenDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something came down in Oban Woodsfrom a secret place, near and join him on the village of Hurstwickrun. It came down hardThey get together, taking but barely begin to smell the spire whiff of Southern trains when the village church with it, destroying a stone shackfather is arrested, and leaving a wide trail through Archie on the woodlate express to Brighton, but no trace of what it actually toting a tin his father was. German secret weapon was the local gossipdetermined to keep away from his colleagues, but there should have been an explosion and the bearer of a crater, and there were neither whole heap of those thingsquestions.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1839944420

|author=Mary H K ChoiLex Croucher|title=YolkGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary= Jayne Baek is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a fashion student that's barely getting bymost delightful way. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about 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 men she sleeps with. Shekingdom's an allonly female knight) -round messy character; and something that's Art discovers from her charmprivate diaries. June And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, on creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other hand, is a complete contrast to Jaynewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's a typical older sister: she's smart But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, thinks she knows it all, and has will they find a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept way in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sickwhich they can both truly be themselves, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far or are they'll go destined to save each other's live a lie their whole lives – even if it means swapping identities.?|isbn= 03490036961526651793

|author=Becky AlbertalliNick Brooks|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He has a close group of friends Each, a loving familyseemingly, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and that's Blue – a boy who he has each could have been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear time of being judgedhis murder. Until one day But who killed him, these emails fall into and why, and if any of the wrong handsboys are innocent, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=014135609X1035003155

|authorisbn=Anna Carey1919635017|title=This is Not the Jess ShowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess is a normal 90Solomon Klyne isn's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with t a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsbad lad, and so why is he running around London committing a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out series of her friendrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's bag, but that her friends just won't talk ll have to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems wait to be responding get an answer to her in strange ways sometimesthe second question because I avoid spoilers. Is there something going on beneath But I'll answer the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970first one: for his grandmother...

|isbnauthor=1712435728Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, heso 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's just being released from re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the Southern General Hospitaltalk in class and out often turns to sex. The nurse thinks Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing t know what his score is, where his achievements in that: heregard lie. He's been there for had a casual relationship, a yearsecret one, on the same ward where his brother died and for several months now, with his hair all shorn offand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', hebut whether that's going home set in his dead brotherstone, he can's clothest be sure. 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 And that 's mostly because of who he's not to mention TB been having the relationship and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck the sex with that one, Alex.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1800901232|title=SolitaireStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringbe a fashion designer. She has one real friend; Life in the rest are just people rural village where she sits near lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so she's when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not a complete lonerto be missed. She hates a lot of things Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- including herselfbus to Hanoi. But suddenly Only, a blog called Solitaire has arrived Hanh and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in Tori's lifean illegal garment factory. Tori doesn't You know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire wantthose jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? Who's behind it The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori It's life so badly quite possible that Hanh and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreher co-workers made them.|isbn=9780007559220

|author=Alice OsemanPatrice Lawrence|title=LovelessNeedle|rating=53

|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's embarking on her first year of university and this piece is in a desperate struggle extremely hard for some people to figure herself like, characters and readers both. Kicked out. Sheof multiple homes and schools, she's always been in love fostering with love. With the idea of lovea pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for has taken up residence in her has always been different. Sheson Blake's never had a crush. Sheold room while he's never been kissedat uni. And she's desperate to feel something Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind creation of one such item is part of realthe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, tangible and physical way is making something full of love for her - younger sister – a younger sister she's disgusted by itallowed contact with no more. But isn't that what We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she's supposed to want? Isn't that shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what everyone exactly happens is supposed not for me to say, only to do? How come everyone else remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can do it? Why can't she?be...|isbn=000824412X1800901011

|author=Arvin AhmadiAnn Sei Lin|title=How It All Blew UpRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a muslim, massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and gaymake merry between their conquests. He struggles with his identityHowever, unable when a man named Himura arrives to face telling his parents who he really tell her that she isa Crafter like him, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, threatening to show his parents photographs leave the life of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaydreary servitude that is all she has known...to Italy! So begins Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a journey for Amirshikigami, and his familyshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, where they all discover more about him, and who he really a sky-ship whose express purpose isto hunt down shikigami, and who he really wants to be.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14714099291406399590

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Black KidsWrath

|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsonly just over, a reaction and he should be free to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black mando what he wants, Rodney Kingto go where he wants and with whom he wants, nearly but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to deathhis best friend, Cassie. Told 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 perspective earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from world is already a silent bystander when confronted with matters done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of race? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=14711881911800900899

|author=Suzanne CollinsTori Bovalino|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesDevil Makes Three

|summary= Coriolanus Snow Working all summer in her boarding school's library is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of 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 affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by man who requested the warbooks: Mr Birch. Their riches goneThe boarding school's headmaster, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintaineda man Tess hates. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsa petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Coriolanus and other students Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Academy become books, scribbled with the first Mentors ugliest insults she can think of the tributes in the games. This is his chance They're never meant to prove himself to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for goodreach him, of course. But when he Her plan is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for to get her anger out like this, and for him) are gonethen take them all off before delivering them. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to No harm done… Or it would be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights if someone hadn't delivered them for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791789098130

|author=James PattersonPhilip Reeve|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 Scillies. 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. 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 worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been waiting on packed off with her parents and their cat from the same street cornerfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, every dayin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, for yearsthat kind of Scottish island. She Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is waiting for his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her parents career in algae behind to come and get herhunt the elusive Greenland shark. They left her there when And Julia, well, she was just tiny, will be homesick and although alone – until she's almost certain that they are never coming back for hersuddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, she continues rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to head back there each daywander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though..robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.But then she has wingsmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other childrendarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, all with interesting characteristics they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of their own and together they've made their own familythe London Lagoon. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualTogether, there's a mysterious childthey must brave man-killer who has been brought to eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the prison next door horrors of post-apocalyptic society to where reach the children liveFree Isles, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have but will they be any more accepted there than they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too lateare in the rest of Britain?|isbn=15291200041406394815

|author= Samira AhmedMercedes Helnwein|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowSlingshot|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In the endGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, we all become stories'' Spending the summer she is used to not being a priority in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess s lives. But when she left behind defends a random boy in Chicago. On a chance encounter her class with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasher slingshot, 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 Byronher simple existence is changed for good. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, but uncover the true story of the woman and why for her life now has a boy in it was one that should she never have been forgottenasked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0349003556152905818X

|author=Angela MackT L Huchu|title=I Am UnworthyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Isabel Ropa Moyo is determined a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to start freshtake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesnEver since she dropped out of school, she't go s been using it to Gilleford Secondary School anymoresupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. She can escape the hurtHowever, there's an evil stalking the fearruined streets of Edinburgh, and targeting the person she becamecity's children. Josh Soon, Ropa is determined to keep going, even through pulled into the rage, search for a missing boy at the pain, and using request of his fists to solve any problem or situationdead mother. But he has secrets She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that threaten to tear him the world of magic is far bigger and his brothers apartmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. When Josh Will she find the missing children and Isabel's worlds collidebring an end to this evil, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or or will Josh's time run outit claim her too?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1529039452

|author=Non PrattKristen O'Neal|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary= Freya was a beautifulHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete Priya has to come to terms with best friend and the promise of fact that she may be in constant pain for the end rest of GCSEs just months awayher life. But one day, on January 1stShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she justtalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. SoThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it while also providing an escape to contain answers just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of some kind, but is surprised her closest friends—doesn't respond to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to chat for a complete strangerwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and then another layer drive to another person and another, each containing an item unique Brigid's house to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through check up on her mystery and the promise of . But what she doesn'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, t expect to find there is a new layer of werewolf in the story basement – and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come for that werewolf to light that threaten be the girl she has been talking to break bonds, both new and oldonline for the past few months. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669431683692349