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It's about Malin growing upnow, struggling at in this new school, having his teacher encourages him to be part of a first date, poetry writing workshop group and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Norris -->[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]] ===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteenslowly, he is set Ronny begins to become see the youngest ever champion of the national under 18sconnections between rap and poetry, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? 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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the roadElk and Mab are best friends, she knows immediately or more than that something even, their friendship is wrong. Then she sees her body lying a once in the muda lifetime connection. Her dead body. Wrong doesn They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't even begin to describe itget each other's contact details at the time. A disembodied ghost, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own death But then chance brings them back together, as her friends and family struggle to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed herthey are inseparable. With no idea how to move on Something has happened though, Lily starts to despairsomething terrible and tragic, until one night she finally manages to make her presence known. She's always had a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else canand now they must work through their grief, and gives her the chance to return to the living world. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer paytheir friendship, together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerMax Boucherat|title= RenegadesThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, thereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once got the minority house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a world of chaos and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom and justicebabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Victorious What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in driving their opponentsa blanket fort, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundshe has one main intention, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of that is to log on to Voxminer, the futureworld-building, governing critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a new peaceful tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and prosperous societythen she finds something even more spooky. They are For the heroes server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of society; the role models young children look tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up toon her phone screen, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide her safe place in the darknessgame has been doctored – well, plotting and planning until they are able where is a girl to get back what was stolen from them.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldRachel Greenlaw|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlCompass and Blade

|summary=In ''Ballad for a Mad GirlI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Grace becomes obsessed with solving survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the mystery wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Hannah Holt, 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 local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agotrap to end the wrecking, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahthey capture the island's leader and Mira's ghostfather. The more she investigatesDesperate to save him from death, the more she Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is convinced Hannah's case 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 some way linked the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her own Motherfather, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's deathterritory, a former classmate Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agoher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonHarry Allen|title= The Extinction TrialsChildren of the Sun|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= Storm Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Lincoln live on Earthasia, she is a continent ruined by overpopulationtalented singer. Space Life is scarce and energy hard and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newdifficult to come by, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died so Seo and she never knew her fatherfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, so she lives in one looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of Earthasiarice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's overcrowded shelters, goes hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for navigate a job. Lincolnlife-changing disability too, but that's sister what Ven is dying from dealing with after collapsing on stage in the blistering disease and he has no access middle of a dance performance that was going to the healthcare that could save change herlife. It's a mean But she comes back fighting, desperate existence for them both to avoid the pity stares, and so they are first desperate to get back to volunteer for the Stipulatorsa life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there' trials for s a new mission (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the neighbouring continent day to day traumas of Piloria. The aim is all the challenges her body continues to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus throw at her to kill them navigate. So even though she can 't dance anymore, might she be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access able to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Simon Fox|title=My Sweet Orange TreeDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''It's just that sometimesLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Zezeand then suddenly rings Archie, you're too naughty.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – demanding he's fetch something from a young tykesecret place, and everyone in his large, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in the neighbourhood – knows he's skilled at being up to no good, that perhaps he was born with a little of join him on the devil in him where Jesus should residerun. Instantly adept at being able to readThey get together, even when he's only five, the precocious brat is forced but barely begin to face something that might be smell the changing whiff of him, once and for all – school. This time of change Southern trains when the father is also featuring a move of homearrested, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears leaving Archie on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes late express to feature the titular treeBrighton, which almost works as toting a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get tin his father was determined to change Zezekeep away from his colleagues, or neither, is and the plot bearer of a whole heap of this vintage Brazilian junior readquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonLex Croucher|title= Star by StarGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was brought up a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Ireland by her suffragette mothera most delightful way. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918 In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Stella is sent to live in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her estranged aunt who runs a boarding houseprivate diaries. This coincides with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a time boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of great change for the country as women falling in love with each other, when really they are allowed to vote for the first timeenabling their own other romantic attachments. Stella is determined to follow But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in her mother's footsteps to help make historywhich they can both truly be themselves, and whilst her age denies her the ability or are they destined to vote herself, she goes to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast hers.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithNick Brooks|title= Grave MatterPromise Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Since Eliza died, since When the night principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the car crash that took her lifepolice station as suspects. Each, Sam is seemingly, has a broken soul. He is lost without grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the girl he loves, feeling as though a part time of him died that night toohis murder. But he is desperate who killed him, and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers why, and wonders if she might any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Suvada1919635017|title= This Mortal CoilA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with he running around London committing a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to produce a vaccine wait to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two years, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force get an answer to work in the national laboratoriessecond question because I avoid spoilers. His last message to her was to hide from But I'll answer the State and not to trust them an inchfirst one: for his grandmother. Set in America, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= WitchbornDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (withinwhich it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intriguefootball team, terror and suspiciontwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mother As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed a witchsingle-sex school can form, her Mother was sentenced the talk in class and out often turns to being burnt at the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alycesex.Haunted by the past she can Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't leave behindknow what his score is, Alyce escapes to London but shewhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's not alone. Endangered had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedomso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find whether that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible's set in stone, he can't be sure.   And Alyce, although she doesnthat's mostly because of who he't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal s been having the throne relationship and the other determined to keep it…sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Moira Young1800901232|title= The Road to Ever AfterStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= A grumpy Twelve-year-old lady who can no longer drive requires Hanh wanted to be a chauffeurfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friends. So farif not prosperous, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an apt comparison in a book which references several well-loved classic filmsopportunity not to be missed. But Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the obvious similarity ends theremini-bus to Hanoi. Davy Only, hired Hanh and the other girls were not going to take Miss Flint on her final road tripwork in a shop, is thirteen years old 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 has not beading on the legs? The ones with the foggiest idea how to drive a carartfully-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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Patrice Lawrence|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Meet TortotBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. HeKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a camp chef for an armypleasant yoga tutor, Annie, with and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a cold heart – he sheds no tearscomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, or at least as much as does Charlene is a fish wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – and a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around himyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. The book even starts We see Charlene prove her belligerence with him crossing the battlefield a store detective, and then force people to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat themgive her two days off school, leaving Tortot on the winning side once morewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But now he's well, what exactly happens is not alone – for he has managed me to also inherit an assistantsay, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite only to remark how sharp and most important gherkins…pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyAnn Sei Lin|title= Daughter of the Burning CityRebel Skies|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big Kurara has spent her entire life as a city, tours servant on the landMidori, entertaining a massive dining hall floating in the crowds with fantastic shows sky where soldiers of magic, illusion the Empire come to drink and sleight of handmake merry between their conquests. But the proprietor of GomorrahHowever, Villiamwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, believes he has someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a far more important role than merely organising the acts in power sought after all across the circusEmpire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has political ambitionknown. Well, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up soon Kurara won't have any say in the circusmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Sorina knows that and she will one day become is forced to flee out into the Proprietor and take over from her fatherworld. At sixteenShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, she a sky-ship whose express purpose is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cara DelevigneMarcus Sedgwick|title= Mirror, MirrorWrath|rating= 24.5

|summary= If the news that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss it? Were you living under a rock?)Meet Fitz, all about a group young Scottish lad full of teens who go looking for their friend who disappearedfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, makes you roll your eyes and say ''wellhe should be free to do what he wants, that sounds a bit like Paper Towns''to go where he wants and with whom he wants, don't worry: you're not alone (seriouslybut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads)Cassie. It's They were half of a pretty lazy write-off, thoughdesultory school band, so I but Cassie was curious to read also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this to see what could be said about connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is itsome 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...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorTori Bovalino|title=The TreatmentDevil Makes Three

|summary=When DrewWorking all summer in her boarding school's brother library is once again expelled from school, and sent away the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a special reform school, Drew doesn't really care. She request for over a hundred books that she has enough of her own troubles to deal withdeliver herself. But then one day she What makes it worse is followed home from the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school by 's headmaster, and a mysterious doctor, who claims to have man Tess hates. As a sinister message from petty act of revenge for making her brotherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, begging Drew scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to help reach him because the school , of course. Her plan is not a reform schoolto get her anger out like this, and actually then take them all the children there are being brainwashedoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdalePhilip Reeve|title= 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 Beast 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 an Animal his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive 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|rating= 54

|summary=The Beast Scarlett McCain is an Animaloutlaw, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by rejecting the Soul Eaters, she was draconian conformity of the only one to see them. Alys Surviving Towns and the other orphans are sent Faith Houses to wander the neighbouring village but this place is not like home. In wildlands between the strange village Seven Kingdoms of Defaid people are piousBritain, they say that Alys's village must have been in league with the Beast, that they drew the Soul Eaters inrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. People in Defaid are suspiciousBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and they are particularly suspicious of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seendarker past. Despite it's piety and it devotion With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ways mythical Free Isles of the ShepherdLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closer, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents cannibalistic Tainted and she does not belong there, Alys knows all the danger horrors of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn post-apocalyptic society to them. As she grows older and reach the danger grows greaterFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like themrest of Britain? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1406394815