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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the roadIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, she knows immediately but that something 's what Ven is wrong. Then she sees her body lying dealing with after collapsing on stage in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin middle of a dance performance that was going to describe itchange her life. A disembodied ghost But she comes back fighting, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating desperate to avoid the horrid aftermath of her own deathpity stares, as her friends and family struggle desperate to get back to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run a life that killed her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despair, until one night 's as normal as she finally manages to make her presence knowncan possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's always had a strong bond with new (cute!) boy in school, her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him music A Level performance piece to try to see her when no-one else cansort out, and gives just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her the chance body continues to return throw at her to the living worldnavigate. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her killer pay. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerSimon Fox|title= RenegadesDeadlock|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this worldLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority in demanding he fetch something from a world of chaos secret place, and disorder, join him on the Renegades fought for freedom and justicerun. Victorious in driving their opponents They get together, but barely begin to smell the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range whiff of abilities are now Southern trains when the lawmakers and leaders of father is arrested, leaving Archie on the futurelate express to Brighton, governing toting a new peaceful tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and prosperous society. They are the heroes bearer of a whole heap of society; the role models young children look up questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen 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 totheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the officers people look to for justice and strengthkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. All except And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the fraction subterfuge of Anarchists that hide falling in the darknesslove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, plotting and planning until will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are able they destined to get back what was stolen from them.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldNick Brooks|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlPromise Boys|rating=3.54
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|summary=In ''Ballad for a Mad Girl'', Grace becomes obsessed with solving When the mystery principal (headmaster) of Hannah HoltUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agoboys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannah's ghosta grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. The more she investigates But who killed him, and why, and if any of the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked boys are innocent, will they be able to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years ago.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= SM Wilson1919635017|title= The Extinction TrialsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, Solomon Klyne isn't a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her fatherbad lad, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister why is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's running around London committing a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first series of robberies? And how did he learn to volunteer for the Stipulatorscrack safes? You' trials for a new mission ll have to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is wait to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus get an answer to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the space and abundant food sources Piloria offersfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos Patrick Ness and Alison Entrekin (translator)Tea Bendix|title=My Sweet Orange TreeDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens |summary=''It's just that sometimes, Zeze, you're too naughty.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – he's Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a young tykestandard school, and everyone in is surprised to find his largegeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, half-Indian family – heckso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks two other old muckers – in the neighbourhood – knows hefact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's skilled at being re all fired up to no good, that perhaps he was born with straining at the leash only a little of single-sex school can form, the devil talk in him where Jesus should resideclass and out often turns to sex. Instantly adept at being able to readWhich is confusing for Ant, even when as hedoesn's only fivet know what his score is, the precocious brat is forced to face something where his achievements in that might be the changing of him, once and for all – schoolregard lie. This time of change is also featuring He's had a casual relationship, a move of homesecret one, for several months now, as and so has effectively progressed up the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current placeladder headed by 'experienced', although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular treebut whether that's set in stone, which almost works as a confessional cum best friendhe can't be sure. Whether either And that's mostly because of who he's been having the new home or relationship and the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sheena Wilkinson1800901232|title= Star by StarStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=15 Twelve-year -old Stella was brought up Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in Ireland by the rural village where she lived with her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe village to offer Hahn a job in November 1918, Stella is sent Hanoi it was an opportunity not to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding housebe missed. This coincides with a time of great change for Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the country as women are allowed mini-bus to vote for the first timeHanoi. Stella is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historyOnly, Hanh and whilst her age denies her the ability other girls were not going to vote herselfwork in a shop, she goes they were to great lengths to ensure 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 ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that former suffragette hunger-striker Hanh and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast hersco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingAnn Sei Lin|title= WitchbornRebel Skies|rating= 4.5
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|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter a massive dining hall floating in the Elizabethan world sky where soldiers of 1577the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A world of intrigueHowever, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is when a young girl forced man named Himura arrives to flee from tell her home after the devastating death of her Motherthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the only person power to form paper into whatever she had ever loved. Tried and deemed desires – a witch, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at the stake by power sought after all across the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding AlyceEmpire.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes He asks her to London but she's not alone. Endangered and being followedcome with him, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find leave the life of dreary servitude that she is more dangerous than all she ever thought possiblehas known. And AlyceWell, although she doesnsoon Kurara won't yet realise ithave any say in the matter, because the Midori is caught between two strong destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and powerful Queens, one desperate she is forced to steal flee out into the throne and world. She joins Himura aboard the other determined Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to keep it…hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Road to Ever AfterWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires Meet Fitz, a chauffeuryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and they become friendswith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. So farThey were half of a desultory school band, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a book which references several well-loved classic films. But subhuman hum coming from the obvious similarity ends thereearth. Davy, hired to take Miss Flint on Is this connected with one of her final road tripeco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, is thirteen years old and not when Cassie has not the foggiest idea how to drive a cargone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Tori Bovalino|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Tortot. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a camp chef request for an army, with over a cold heart – he sheds no tearshundred 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, or at least as much as does and a fish – and man Tess hates. As a brilliant way petty act of gauging the warfare going on around him. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield to start work revenge for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers making her find and defeat themdeliver such a large request, leaving Tortot Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the winning side once moreugliest insults she can think of. But now heThey's not alone – for he has managed re never meant to also inherit an assistantreach him, who lives in a barrel of the Emperorscourse. 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' favourite and most important gherkins…t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyPhilip Reeve|title= Daughter Utterly 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|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 Burning Cityelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
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|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=GomorrahScarlett McCain is an outlaw, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the land, entertaining wildlands between the crowds with fantastic shows Seven Kingdoms of magicBritain, illusion robbing banks and sleight of handshooting 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 proprietor mythical Free Isles of Gomorrahthe London Lagoon. Together, Villiamthey must brave man-eating wildlife, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in cannibalistic Tainted and all the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the circusFree Isles, Sorina knows that she but will one day become they be any more accepted there than they are in the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1406394815
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