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|author=Patrick NessLeanne Egan|title=BurnLover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After

|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in factElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USeven, there their friendship is still a Cold War with the Russians, still once in a concomitant arms racelifetime connection. And the stain of racism is just They meet as crushing - something mixed race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But children one thing is day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'very'' differents contact details at the time. In this alternate world But then chance brings them back together, there and they are dragonsinseparable. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragonsfriendship, after alltogether.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 14063755001471196585

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen''I can hear the song of the sea. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MSThe call of the deep, when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all, when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolanswering beat in my heart. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.'

Poor Frankie! Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn= 0857535897 0008664730

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedHarry Allen|title= Yes No Maybe So Children of the Sun|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning Ra Eun Seo lives in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician North Korean town and decides there she is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the publica talented singer. Maya Life is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who hard and food is having the worst summer of difficult to come by, so Seo and her life. Her parents are going through a separationfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she has zero plans looking for the summer to help take her mind off things tree bark and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer edible grasses to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be supplement the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither meagre rations of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - rice and maybe even about each other?kimchi at home.|isbn=14711846681805140493

|author=AkalaAlexia Casale|title=The Dark LadySing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'For re having to navigate a street kid from the Devil's Gaplife-changing disability too, Londonbut that's most notorious slum, life what Ven is short and tough. For Henry, a boy thief dealing with brown skin, inherited from after collapsing on stage in the middle of a mother who abandoned him, dance performance that was going to change her life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems But she comes back fighting, desperate to represent a pastavoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly a future..manage. Meanwhile there''Henry and his friendss a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob just the houses day to day traumas of all the richchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. It So even though she can's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures toot dance anymore, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn= 14449436930571373801

|author= Alyssa SheinmelSimon Fox|title= What Kind of GirlDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Late one night Graham Blake is braver than doing late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with from a black eyesecret place, and join him on the run. They get together, claiming he gave it but barely begin to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's smell the talk whiff of Southern trains when the school. Mike was father is arrested, leaving Archie on the most popular boy in school who late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was always so in love with her, everyone knew thatdetermined to keep away from his colleagues, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=03490032971839944420

|author= Ben OliverLex Croucher|title= The LoopGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a horrific level by machinesgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kaneit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In a world of Have this story, Gwen and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] Arthur have power over Regularsbeen betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, he is trapped inside a living hell in love with no chance of escapeBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a trigger held by boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the guards who can end his life subterfuge of falling in love with one squeezeeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is way in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, which they can Luka ever both truly be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loopthemselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=19126265511526651793

|author=Mark LinganeNick Brooks|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Promise Boys

|summary= ''Degrade'' opens When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging actionsuspects. Poor Arid Each, alone in the desert since his parents were killedseemingly, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his is pretty much destroyedmurder. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella But who killed him, and on board the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughterif any of the boys are innocent, Frey, stranded in the desert....will they be able to clear their names?|isbn= 099461649X1035003155

|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi1919635017|title=PetA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=The people Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the town Lucille believe that all second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the monsters are gonefirst one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4. Their children are raised 5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to understand that they were saved by the angelsfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, those who rid so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the town of evilfootball team, and there are no monsters anymoretwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But one dayAs they're all fired up, Jam accidentally cuts herselfstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and bleeds a little onto one of her mother's paintingsout often turns to sex. The blood awakens a bizarreWhich is confusing for Ant, terrifying-looking creature named Petas he doesn't know what his score is, who somehow comes to life and declares where his achievements in that it is here to hunt the monsterregard lie. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are goneHe's had a casual relationship, Pet is certain that there is a secret one, stillfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that 's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the monster is hiding in relationship and the home of her best friend, Redemptionsex with.|isbn=05713551101529509491

|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Leigh BardugoSteve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, Louise Simonson so when the smartly-dressed man and Kit Seatonwoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelNeedle

|summary=Diana, being unique on her islandBrave. Charlene, is the victim 'heroine' of a lot of tauntsthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and claims of nepotismreaders both. ItKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's only her unique statusfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and her mother being Queen, that has taken up residence in her with any standing son Blake's old room while he's at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the islandcomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for and the World creation of one such item is part of Menthe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and this Diana is the heroine making something full of yet another Wonder Woman origin storylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. A shipwreck disturbs We see Charlene prove her leading performance in belligerence with a running racestore detective, but the survivor and then force people to give her two days off school, when she drags from the waters shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only going to disturb a lot moreremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14012825551800901011

|author=Tanya LandmanAnn Sei Lin|title=Jane EyreRebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-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, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a Retellingman Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A young womanIn a word, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a dreary schoolpeculiar island called Wildsea, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like British but way west, beyond the life she wants – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and with only one jobsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to tutor a young half-French girlkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, whose father is almost always absentwhere no ship dare sail. When he does turn up he seems The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to be darkworry about such local yokel superstitions, brooding and troubled – but thatAndrewe's nothing compared to the darkerfoundling daughter, more broody and even more troubled secret in who washed up out of the housesea one day eleven years ago. YesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, if you know Jane Eyre then you know both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rest – but if you don'tworld of protecting their island, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn tolike it or not.|isbn=17811291261788452372

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Permanent RecordJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=PabloJulia, a college dropour pre-outteen heroine, is working at has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a New York bodega. He's massively in debtsummer, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! the far NE of the Scottish islands. Whilst working one eveningHere be Vikings, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipkind of Scottish island. With one character who Dad is trying very hard not going to be seen or noticed by anyoneautomating the lantern, and the other who which is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherelusive Greenland shark. This isn't just a love story thoughAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=03490034591510107789

|author= Alexandra ChristoJonathan Stroud|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the city draconian conformity of Creijethe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Taviarobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a magical con-artist, specialises in wowing gullible tourists dark boy with cheap charms dark powers and trickerya darker past. HoweverWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, when a new and powerful form they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto the streets, nearly killing her close friend Saxony, Tavia begins to worryLondon Lagoon. At the same timeTogether, her childhood best friend Wesleythey must brave man-eating wildlife, the youngest underboss in cannibalistic Tainted and all the city, discovers that Dante Ashwood, kingpin horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Creijen criminal underworldFree Isles, has his sights set on world domination. It's now up to but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the four unlikely allies to bring down his plans...rest of Britain?|isbn=12503183781406394815

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401280048.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401280048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built Move on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401283292.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401283292/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526613689.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526613689/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Thrillers Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]  <!-- Thakur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140638853X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140638853X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur|Full Review]] <!-- Lawrence -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444940651.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Filby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999683587.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999683587/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]