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|author=Rob WintersAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=His Name Was WrenWild East|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5

|summary= Jayne Baek Written in verse, this is a fashion student thatRonny's barely getting 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. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. SheRonny's an all-round messy character; and thatmum who is worried for Ronny's her charm. Junesafety after a tragic event, on the other handand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, is a complete contrast new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it allmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a successful jobrapper. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices 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 two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sickconnections between rap and poetry, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together power of creativity and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiescrafting your words.|isbn= 03490036960241645441

|author=Becky AlbertalliJenny Valentine|title= Simon vs. Us in the Homo Sapiens AgendaBefore and After

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has once in a secret: he's gaylifetime connection. Only They meet as children one person knows this, and that's Blue – day on a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found trip out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itbut unfortunately they don't get each other's his own private universe without contact details at the fear of being judgedtime. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands But then chance brings them back together, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downthey are inseparable.|isbn=014135609X}}{{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school Something has happened though, something terrible and boystragic, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsnow they must work through their grief, and a strange metal devicetheir friendship, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimestogether. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=16836919701471196585

|isbnauthor=1712435728Max Boucherat|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we We meet Lori on the first meet Alex Hannah, heevening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just being released from the Southern General Hospitalan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has no one main intention of doing , and that: he's been there for a yearis to log on to Voxminer, on the same ward where his brother died and nowworld-building, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home critter-collecting game that is a hit in his dead brotherLori's clothesworld. He wants to get outside But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that then she finds something even more spooky. For the fresh air will do him good server she and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB her bestie and nobody else should be able to say it was tonsillitisenter shows signs of tampering. Good luck with that oneWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Alex.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Alice OsemanRachel Greenlaw|title=SolitaireCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to ''I can hear the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; song of the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete lonersea. She hates a lot The call of things - including herselfthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. But suddenly'' Rosevear, a blog called Solitaire has arrived remote and is pulling pranks throughout partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the school. And Michael Holden has appeared rocks and is showing up everywhere in Tori's lifeplundering the wrecks. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedMira, like her mother before her, but suddenly she isone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. What does Solitaire want? WhoBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Torileader and Mira's life so badly and father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as heis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, really? Things are she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only getting stranger and darkernine 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 only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=97800075592200008664730

|author=Alice OsemanHarry Allen|title=LovelessChildren of the Sun

|summary= Georgia Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a teenager who's embarking on her first year of university talented singer. Life is hard and food is in a desperate struggle difficult to figure herself out. She's always been in love with love. With the idea of lovecome by, the idea of falling madly for someone so Seo and finding bliss. But the reality for her has always been different. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something friends Nari and fall Min go foraging every evening, looking for someone. But when tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the opportunity presents itself in any kind meagre rations of real, tangible rice and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itkimchi at home. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412X1805140493

|author=Arvin AhmadiAlexia Casale|title=How It All Blew UpSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=18 year old Amir 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 American Iraniandealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, a muslimdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and gaydesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. He struggles with his identityMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, unable her music A Level performance piece to face telling his parents who he really istry to sort out, so when another student and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening her to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..navigate.to Italy! So begins a journey for Amireven though she can't dance anymore, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants might she be able to be.sing her way through instead?|isbn=14714099290571373801

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedSimon Fox|title=The Black KidsDeadlock

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Late one night Graham Blake is set against the backdrop of late back from his shift on the 1992 Los Angeles riotsforce, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black manand then suddenly rings Archie, Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution demanding he fetch something from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racesecret place, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagejoin him on the run.|isbn=1471188191}}{{Frontpage|author=Suzanne Collins|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined They get together, charming, and one of but barely begin to smell the only surviving members whiff of Southern trains when the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonefather is arrested, his parents dead - and yet leaving Archie on the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginslate express to Brighton, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is toting a tin his chance father was determined to prove himself to the world keep away from his colleagues, and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances bearer of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world whole heap of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooquestions. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791839944420

|author=James PattersonLex Croucher|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, every day, for yearsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tinyIn this story, Gwen and although she's almost certain that Arthur have been betrothed since they are never coming back for herwere tiny, she continues much to head back there each daytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, just is in case. Hawk isnlove with Bridget (the kingdom't your ordinary street urchin though..s only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries.she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a group boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together when really they've made are enabling their own familyother romantic attachments. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualas their impending wedding draws ever closer, there's will they find a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have way in which they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Madboth truly be themselves, Bad and Dangerous or are they destined to Know|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like live a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, 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 Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.lie their whole lives?|isbn=03490035561526651793

|author=Angela MackNick Brooks|title=I Am UnworthyPromise Boys

|summary= Isabel When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the fear, and the person she becamepolice station as suspects. Josh is determined to keep going Each, even through the rageseemingly, the painhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and using each could have been there at the time of his fists to solve any problem or situationmurder. But he has secrets that threaten to tear who killed him , and his brothers apart. When Josh why, and Isabel's worlds collideif any of the boys are innocent, can will they make be able to clear their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run outnames?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1035003155

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1919635017|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was Solomon Klyne isn't a beautifulbad lad, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as so why is he running around London committing a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise series of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it robberies? And how did he learn to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed crack safes? You'll have to a complete stranger, and then another layer wait to another person and another, each containing get an item unique answer to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasuresecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I' at ll answer the end of it allfirst one: for his grandmother.. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|author=Kat EllisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Harrow LakeDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, daughter and is surprised to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she so his desk is saying goodbye one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsprimary school days together. But when she is found by her father As they's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doorre all fired up, straining at the leash only a trail of bloodsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and her father dying in his studyout often turns to sex. And so Which is confusing for Ant, while as he recovers, she doesn't know what his score is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town where his achievements in Indiana that served as the location regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the film ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn's set in stone, he can't rightbe sure. There And that's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales mostly because of the townwho he's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, been having the relationship and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But the sex with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=02413970491529509491

|authorisbn=Holly Jackson1800901232|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=A month on from Brave. Charlene, the explosive conclusion 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to the Andie Bell mysterylike, a new normal has settled over Little Kiltoncharacters and readers both. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey Kicked out of discovering the truth about Andie multiple homes and Salschools, she's deaths has gained massive media attentionfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Cara and has taken up residence in her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out tempestuous personality may be in need of his housea comfort blanket, bleedingyou might perhaps think, and disappeared into the night. As creation of one such item is part of the town tries to heal againplot here, six years on from the events of that nightas Charlene is a wonder knitter, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one and is making something full of Pippalove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friends has gone missingallowed contact with no more. And soWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, alongside and then force people to give her difficult life two days off school, when she shouts someone down as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldexpletively ignorant. And then... well, she what exactly happens is once again taken down a darknot for me to say, twisted path only to discover the truthremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14052977511800901011

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallAnn Sei Lin|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaRebel Skies

|summary= On Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the pirate ship DoveMidori, Flora the girl has assumed a massive dining hall floating in the identity sky where soldiers of Florian the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man in an attempt named Himura arrives to fit in tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the crew. Life is hard as power to form paper into whatever she desires – a pirate, trust and empathy are power sought after all across the first things Empire. He asks her to be discardedcome with him, but anything has to be better than starving on leave the streetslife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. MeanwhileWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards matter, because the DoveMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, headed off to be married and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a military man she's never met on some farsky-flung colony of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects ship whose express purpose is to be thrown together by fatehunt down shikigami, never mind fall in love…and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=15362043151406399590

|author=Holly JacksonMarcus Sedgwick|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=5 years agoMeet Fitz, the tiny town a young Scottish lad full of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifulfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a traceand he should be free to do what he wants, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his dad and died foot in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearanceit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. His guilt They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was sealed and also one hundred per cent the case was closed, so enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the town and its families tried moved onearth. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the help end of his brother Ravi. What started 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 as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinister, and Pippa begins to unearth the dark truth about the beautiful? Well, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years agonot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomes.|isbn=14052931871800900899

|author=Kat DunnTori Bovalino|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= ItWorking 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 Parisheadmaster, 1794and a man Tess hates. The Revolution is five years old 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 country in books, scribbled with the midst ugliest insults she can think of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionaries. They're never meant to reach him, trying of course. Her plan is to maintain their control by whatever means necessaryget 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 RoyalistsFace of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, still loyal to monarchy intentrich. Caught 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 man's land between ship dare sail. The current Darks are the two warring factions is the Battalion Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionaryHidden 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, the band who washed up out of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent falloutsea one day eleven years ago. But they may have gotten in over when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their heads 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 latest rescuecat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the 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= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Olymperobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a girl dark boy with dark powers and a disturbing history darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and powers that might just make her all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the spark that blows up Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the powder-keg rest of revolutionary Paris. Britain?|isbn=17895436491406394815

|author=Jenny ValentineMercedes Helnwein|title=Hello NowSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Jude reluctantly moves Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into man with a big"real" family, old house overlooking the sea - which happens she is used to contain not being a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted priority in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or canpeople'ts lives. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality But when she is consumed by defends a longing for random boy in her class with her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last timeslingshot, she swears. This world her simple existence is quiet, dull and yet suffocating changed for Judegood. That is until the day Novo arrivesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and for her entire concept of the world changes foreverlife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0007466498152905818X