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|author=Suzanne CollinsLeanne Egan|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesLover Birds

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refinedWhen new girl, charmingIsabel, and one moves to Lou's hometown of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familyLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone 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, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsthat's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, Coriolanus and other students isn't she? Even though none of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to the world her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and secure his place in the Capitol for she's never had a good. But when he is assigned a tribute kiss with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances any of winning (both for her them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself wanting to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for hang out with her because fighting with her life in the arena - but behind the scenesis fun, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitolshe definitely just hates Isabel, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will doesn't she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179000862657X

|author=James PattersonAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelWild East|rating=4.5

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerWritten in verse, every daythis is Ronny's story, for years. She is waiting for her parents a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to come Norwich and get herstart at a mostly white school. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although sheThe move is initiated by Ronny's almost certain that they are never coming back mum who is worried for herRonny's safety after a tragic event, she continues and so Ronny finds himself trying to head back there each daysettle in a new town, just in casea new school, and keep himself out of trouble. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsHe listens to music constantly, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with has always dreamed of being a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familyrapper. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a mysterious child-killer who has been brought poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the prison next door to where connections between rap and poetry, and the children live, power of creativity and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken awaycrafting your words. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200040241645441

|author= Samira AhmedJenny Valentine|title= Mad, Bad Us in the Before and Dangerous to KnowAfter|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In the endElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, we all become stories'' Spending the summer their friendship is a once in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but Khayyam canunfortunately they don't relax and stop thinking about get each other's contact details at the mess she left behind in Chicagotime. On a But then chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasbrings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, 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 Dumassomething terrible and tragic, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city now they not only discover themselvesmust work through their grief, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottentheir friendship, together.|isbn=03490035561471196585

|author=Angela MackMax Boucherat|title=I Am UnworthyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Isabel is determined We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be differentpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Her tormentor doesn't What could possibly go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtwrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, the fearshe has one main intention, and the person she became. Josh that is determined to keep goinglog on to Voxminer, even through the rageworld-building, the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situationcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But he first Lori has secrets a tiny inkling that threaten this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to tear him and his brothers apartenter shows signs of tampering. When Josh malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Isabel's worlds collideher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run outwhere is a girl to turn?|isbn=B089FL7H4H0008666482

|author=Non PrattRachel Greenlaw|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|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 student, complete with best friend and ''I can hear the promise song of the end sea. The call of GCSEs just months awaythe deep, the answering beat in my heart. But one day'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left desertedluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. SoMira, when like her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from mother before her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers is one of some kind, but is surprised the seven who swim out to find survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the parcel contains another layer addressed Council Watch lays a trap to a complete strangerend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and then another layer Mira's father. Desperate to another person save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and another, each containing an item unique with only coordinates to them and Freyaguide her, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise she sets off in search of 'treasure' at a family secret that lies buried deep in the end of it allsea. With each parcelonly nine days to unearth what might save her father, a new layer as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the story and heart of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to light that threaten stop at nothing to break bonds, both new save the future of her home and oldthe ones she holds most dear. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669430008664730

|author=Kat EllisHarry Allen|title=Harrow LakeChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsa talented singer. But when she Life is found by her father's assistant hard and forced food is difficult to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of bloodby, so Seo and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother friends Nari and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill Min go foraging every cornerevening, looking for tree bark and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully edible grasses to light supplement the meagre rations of rice and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories kimchi at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakehome.|isbn=02413970491805140493

|author=Holly JacksonAlexia Casale|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=A month It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on from stage in the explosive conclusion middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Andie Bell mysterypity stares, and desperate to get back to a new life that's as normal has settled over Little Kiltonas she can possibly manage. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa Meanwhile there's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentiona new (cute!) boy in school, 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 she stumbled music A Level performance piece to try to sort out of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into just the night. As day to day traumas of all the town tries challenges her body continues to throw at her to heal again, six years on from the events of that night, tragedy strikes againnavigate. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa So even though she can's best friends has gone missing. And so, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldt dance anymore, might she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path be able to discover the truth.sing her way through instead?|isbn=14052977510571373801

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallSimon Fox|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= On Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the pirate ship Doveforce, Flora and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the girl has assumed run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the identity whiff of Florian Southern trains when the man in an attempt to fit in with the crew. Life father is hard as a piratearrested, trust and empathy are leaving Archie on the first things late express to be discardedBrighton, but anything has toting a tin his father was determined to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhilekeep away from his colleagues, and the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to bearer of a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony whole heap of the Nipran Empirequestions. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151839944420

|author=Holly JacksonLex Croucher|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=5 years ago, the tiny town of Little Kilton Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a tracegay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent it lifted my spirits in a 'confession' text to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearancemost delightful way. His guilt was sealed In this story, Gwen and the case was closedArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, so the town and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined much to prove that Sal was innocenttheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the help of his brother Ravikingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and Pippa begins to unearth creating the dark truth about the beautifulsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what when really happened all those years agothey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But the as their impending wedding draws ever closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=14052931871526651793

|author=Kat DunnNick Brooks|title=Dangerous RemedyPromise Boys|rating=4.5

|summary= It's Paris, 1794. The Revolution is five years old and When the country in the midst principal (headmaster) of violent political turmoil between Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Revolutionariespolice station as suspects. Each, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessaryseemingly, and the Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught in has a no man's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion grudge of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary's daughtersome description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the band time of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent fallouthis murder. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescuewho killed him, Olympeand why, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her if any of the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=17895436491035003155

|authorisbn=Jenny Valentine1919635017|title=Hello NowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to Solomon Klyne isn't a smallbad lad, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into so why is he running around London committing a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just wonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't leave – or can't. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by a longing ll answer the first one: for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she swearshis grandmother. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|author= Ashley PostonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Bookish and the BeastDifferent for Boys|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after Ant 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, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the ExcelsiConfootball team, we are introduced and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to Rosie Thorneprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a Small Townsingle-sex school can form, USA girl who has recently lost her mother the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up confusing for RosieAnt, and when she follows a stray dog into as he doesn't know what she thinks his score is an abandoned castle , where his achievements in her town, things just get worsethat regard lie. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother He's hospital had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and funeral costs she so has no money to cover effectively progressed up the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reignsladder headed by 'experienced', Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escapebut whether that's set in stone, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isncan't too fond be sure. And that's mostly because of her either. However, as who he's been having the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower relationship and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after allthe sex with. |isbn=16836919381529509491

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1800901232|title=BurnStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''On Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a cold Sunday evening fashion designer. Life in early 1957 - the very dayrural village where she lived with her family was happy, in factif not prosperous, that Dwight David Eisenhower took so when the oath of office for smartly-dressed man and woman came to the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father village to offer Hahn a job in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired Hanoi it was an opportunity not to help be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the farmmini-bus to Hanoi.''It's 1950s America but Only, Hanh and the other girls were not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still going to work in a Cold War with the Russiansshop, still a concomitant arms racethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And You know those jeans you really wanted: the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah ones with intricate embroidery and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is beading on the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. legs? The dragons live in an uneasy peace ones with humans the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold her co- they are dragons, after allworkers made them.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500

|author=Jacqueline WilsonPatrice Lawrence|title=Love FrankieNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary= Frankie Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is nearly fourteenextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with MSa pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, when your dad and has decided to leave taken up residence in her for another womanson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedyou might perhaps think, andthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, above allas Charlene is a wonder knitter, when Sally and is making something full of love for her mates are bullying you at schoolyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. OhWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when Samshe shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, your best friend since foreverwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - only to remark how sharp and you don't fancy him backpointy those knitting needles can be... Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 1800901011

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedAnn Sei Lin|title= Yes No Maybe So Rebel Skies|rating= 45

|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 Kurara has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for spent her entire life as a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassingservant on the Midori, he can't think a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of anything worsethe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Jaime has always wanted when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a politician and decides there is no time Crafter like him, someone with the present to conquer his fear of speaking power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the publicEmpire. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having He asks her to come with him, to leave the worst summer life of her lifedreary servitude that is all she has known. Her parents are going through a separationWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, she has zero plans for because the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend Midori is permanently busy. To help occupy herdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, her parents offer to buy her a car if and she agrees is forced to go canvassingflee out into the world. The pair could possibly be She joins Himura aboard the worst canvassing duo in historyOrihime, as neither of them really want a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they carehunt down shikigami, and a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14711846681406399590

|author=AkalaMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Dark LadyWrath

|summary=''For Meet Fitz, a street kid from the Devil's Gapyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, London's most notorious slumand he should be free to do what he wants, life is short to go where he wants and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skinwhom he wants, inherited but he cannot stop himself from a mother who abandoned himputting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, life is tougher stillCassie. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent They were half of a pastdesultory school band, and possibly but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a futuresubhuman hum coming from the earth...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways Is this connected with one of getting by. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob her eco-warrior parents saying the houses end of the rich. Itworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caughttruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, 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. |isbn= 14449436931800900899

|author= Alyssa SheinmelTori Bovalino|title= What Kind of GirlThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school'' Doing something s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when you're scared she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkerthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's girlfriend comes into school with headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a black eyelarge request, claiming he gave Tess sticks post-it to hernotes on each of the books, her whole world is tipped upside downscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Her relationship has just ended and now sheThey's the talk re never meant to reach him, of the schoolcourse. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with Her plan is to get heranger out like this, everyone knew thatand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some donif someone hadn't, but one thing is delivered them for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonher.|isbn=03490032971789098130

|author= Ben OliverPhilip Reeve|title= The LoopUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Set during the aftermath of In a Third World War where methods word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to riches in this story set on a horrific level by machinespeculiar island called Wildsea, The Loop follows British but way west, beyond the precarious existence of adolescent Luka KaneScillies. In a world There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of Have the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Have Nots their monster approaching from even further west, where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escapeship dare sail. A detonator The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by keep notes of activity from the guards Hidden Lands, his brother Will who can end lives in London with too much science in his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access head to his memories worry about such local yokel superstitions, and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffersea one day eleven years ago. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the visits world of sympathetic Alt guard Wrenprotecting their island, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?like it or not.|isbn=19126265511788452372

|author=Mark LinganeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on Julia, our pre- teen heroine, has been packed off with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his her parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by their cat from the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the ''Moonlight'' under far NE of the suspicious eyes Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of its leader, Queen BeaScottish island. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that Dad isgoing to be automating the lantern, there's an assassination attempt and Arid which is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her other daughter, Frey, stranded career in algae behind to hunt the desert..elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn= 099461649X1510107789

|author=Akwaeke EmeziJonathan Stroud|title=PetThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to understand that they were saved by wander the angels, those who rid wildlands between the town Seven Kingdoms of evilBritain, robbing banks and there are no monsters anymoreshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herselfthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and bleeds a little onto one darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of her mother's paintingsthe London Lagoon. The blood awakens a bizarreTogether, terrifyingthey must brave man-looking creature named Peteating wildlife, who somehow comes to life the cannibalistic Tainted and declares that it is here to hunt all the monster. Though Jam tries horrors of post-apocalyptic society to convince it that all reach the monsters are goneFree Isles, Pet is certain that but will they be any more accepted there is one, still, and that the monster is hiding than they are in the home rest of her best friend, Redemption.Britain?|isbn=05713551101406394815