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<!{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-- Miranda -->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|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills*[[image:Miranda_Fragments|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.amazon What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.co For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.uk/gp/product/0399556729 When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodeRachel Greenlaw|title=as2&campCompass and Blade|rating=1634&creative3.5|genre=6738&creativeASINTeens|summary=0399556729]]''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

===[[Fragments of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost rocks and plundering the only boy she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''wrecks. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendMira, Caleb, died but she still cannot find the strength to move on with like her life. So when Caleb's mother asks Jessa to clean out his roombefore her, things go from bad to worse. [[Fragments is one of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Shaw -->*[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] ===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake is determined seven who swim out to escape from his Home Academy survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and to find a new home with his dog, Jetany treasure that lies within. He thinks his biggest challenge is going to be getting out and over the wall but, But when he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able Council Watch lays a trap to track everyone in end the country via wrecking, they capture the island'hub chip' in their neck s leader and in no time Mira'the hubbers' (police) are on his trails father. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is permitted secretive and with only coordinates to join their gang and together they set out on guide her, she sets off in search of a perilous journey north towards family secret that lies buried deep in the heavily guarded border with Scotlandsea.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Khan -->*[[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]] ===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating watched streets of foreign islands to being a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells the story heart of Muznathe smuggler's territory, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses Mira must be determined to ask her out despite interest from several other girls stop at school. However, nothing to save the future of her delight wavers when home and the ones she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western cultureholds most dear. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ahmed -->*[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] ===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]==isbn=0008664730}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]FrontpageLove, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br>author=Harry Allen<!-- Holland -->*[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]Children of the Sun|rating===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]===5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything she is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do nottalented singer. In debt Life is hard and struggling food is difficult to afford the rentcome by, Jules decides to ignore so Seo and her father's warnings friends Nari and take a job at EverlessMin go foraging every evening, an estate belonging looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward meagre rations of Sempera's queen, rice and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everythingkimchi at home... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]isbn=1805140493<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Zurcher -->|author=Alexia Casale*[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]Sing if you Can't Dance|rating===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]===5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloisesummary=It's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of navigate a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-andlife-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brownchanging disability too, but that's what actually lies behind this event Ven is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a quest dance performance that was going to rescue both change her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not humanlife. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->*[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]] ===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came But she comes back fighting, desperate to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by avoid the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girlpity stares, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (desperate to get back to a fact that I liked) but I suspect life that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrumas normal as she can possibly manage. But that isn't really what the book is about. It Meanwhile there's about Malin growing up, struggling at a new (cute!) boy in school, having a first dateher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and dealing with family difficulties, just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at the same timeher to navigate. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|Full Review]]isbn=0571373801<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Norris -->|author=Simon Fox[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|lefttitle=Deadlock|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]5|genre===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]===Confident Readers*[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd Late one night Graham Blake is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of late back from his shift on the national under 18sforce, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At firstand then suddenly rings Archie, Floyd thinks Mike is just demanding he fetch something from a weird kid following secret place, and join him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of Southern trains when the matchfather is arrested, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is leaving Archie on the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred late express to Brighton, toting a specialist tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and together they unpick the mystery bearer of a whole heap of Mikequestions. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1839944420}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonLex Croucher|title=Sunflowers Gwen and Art Are Not in FebruaryLove|rating=3.54

|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the road, she knows immediately Who knew that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin what I really needed to describe read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A disembodied ghost In this story, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own deathGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, as her friends and family struggle much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fallout from the hitkingdom's only female knight) -and-run something that killed Art discovers from herprivate diaries. With no idea how to move on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Lily starts to despaircreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's always had But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else way in which they canboth truly be themselves, and gives her the chance to return or are they destined to the living world. Lily has live a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerNick Brooks|title= RenegadesPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once When the minority in a world principal (headmaster) of chaos and disorderUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Renegades fought for freedom and justicepolice station as suspects. Victorious in driving their opponents Each, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundseemingly, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range has a grudge of abilities are now some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the lawmakers and leaders time of the futurehis murder. But who killed him, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up towhy, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction if any of Anarchists that hide in the darknessboys are innocent, plotting and planning until will they are be able to get back what was stolen from them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn''Ballad for t a Mad Girl''bad lad, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery so why is he running around London committing a series of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's ghostll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. The more she investigates, But I'll answer the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agofirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Wilson -->|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix*[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|lefttitle=Different for Boys|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]5|genre===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]===Teens [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother ever learnt) has died and she never knew her fatherbeen restructured, so she lives in his desk is one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying four with both his best buddy from the blistering disease football team, and he has no access two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to the healthcare that could save herprimary school days together. It As they's a meanre all fired up, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for straining at the Stipulators' trials for leash only a new mission to single-sex school can form, the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered talk in class and the citizens of Earthasia will have access out often turns to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offerssex... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)|title=My Sweet Orange Tree|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''It's just t know what his score is, where his achievements in that sometimes, Zeze, you're too naughtyregard lie.'' And thatHe's almost the entire truth about our narratorhad a casual relationship, Zeze – he's a young tykesecret one, and everyone in his largefor several months now, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in so has effectively progressed up the neighbourhood – knows heladder headed by 'experienced's skilled at being up to no good, but whether that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil 's set in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to readstone, even when hecan's only five, the precocious brat is forced to face something that might t be the changing of him, once and for all – schoolsure. This time And that's mostly because of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although who he's been having downsized the garden comes to feature relationship and the titular tree, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1529509491

{{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>

 <!-- Dawson -->*[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]] ===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might 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. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaPatrice Lawrence|title= This Mortal CoilNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying extremely hard for some people to produce a vaccine to save humanitylike, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new characters and stronger strains at a frightening pacereaders both. Catarina has lived alone Kicked out of multiple homes and in hiding for the past two yearsschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and has taken by force to work up residence in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from the State and not to trust them an inchson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Set Such a tempestuous personality may be in Americaneed of a comfort blanket, but not an America we would recogniseyou might perhaps think, most and the creation of one such item is part of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkersplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditionsis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. OthersWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, less trusting of the Stateand then force people to give her two days off school, remain in hiding on the surfacewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, hoping the virus will what exactly happens is not reach them for me to say, only to remark how sharp and avoiding anyone who is infectedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingAnn Sei Lin|title= WitchbornRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|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

{{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

{{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

|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 armyover 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, with and a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does man Tess hates. As a fish – petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a brilliant way large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of gauging the warfare going on around books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield Her plan is to start work 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 enemy Face of the night before they turn 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 tables 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 previous employers brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and defeat themAndrewe's foundling daughter, leaving Tortot on who washed up out of the winning side once moresea one day eleven years ago. But now he's 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 alone – for he .|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 managed been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to also inherit an assistantbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who lives in a barrel 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 Emperors' favourite elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and most important gherkins…alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyJonathan Stroud|title= Daughter of the Burning CityThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|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