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|author=Mercedes HelnweinAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=SlingshotWild East|rating=34.5|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

|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" familyElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, she their friendship is used to not being a priority once in peoplea lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's livescontact details at the time. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshotthen chance brings them back together, her simple existence is changed for goodand they are inseparable. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, for her life and now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldthey must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=152905818X1471196585

|author= T L HuchuMax Boucherat|title= The Library Last Life of the DeadLori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from We meet Lori on the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, first evening she's been using it got the house to support not only herself– no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but on her younger sister lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and her aging grandmother. Howeverthat is to log on to Voxminer, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburghworld-building, targeting the citycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's childrenworld. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for But first Lori has a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise tiny inkling that the world of magic is far bigger this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more dangerous than she ever could've imaginedspooky. Will For the server she find the missing children and bring an end her bestie and nobody else should be able to this evilenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, or will it claim and her toosafe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn= 15290394520008666482

|author=Kristen O'NealRachel Greenlaw|title=Lycanthropy Compass and Other Chronic IllnessesBlade|rating=3.5

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be answering beat in constant pain for the rest of her lifemy heart. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' Rosevear, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles remote and help each other outpartially forgotten island, while also providing an escape to just joke survives on luring ships into the rocks and mess aroundplundering the wrecks. When Brigid—one Mira, like her mother before her, is one of her closest friends—doesn't respond the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the chat for Council Watch lays a whiletrap to end the wrecking, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parentsthey capture the island' car s leader and drive to BrigidMira's house father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to check up on guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But With only nine days to unearth what she doesnmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't expect s territory, Mira must be determined to find there is a werewolf in stop at nothing to save the basement – future of her home and for that werewolf to be the girl ones she has been talking to online for the past few monthsholds most dear.|isbn=16836923490008664730

|author=Goldy MoldavskyHarry Allen|title=The Last GirlChildren of the Sun

|genre=teensTeens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children Ra Eun Seo lives in the city – a North Korean town and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as is a source of comforttalented singer. She struggles Life is hard and food is difficult to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie stylecome by, so Seo and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, her friends Nari and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to Min go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranksforaging every evening, looking for tree bark and people begin edible grasses to get hurt. When supplement the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too latemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=07555015271805140493

|isbnauthor=1406395404Alexia Casale|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (you'who needs sleep? re having to navigate a life- Ichanging disability too, but that've got loads s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilychange her life. Most peopleBut she comes back fighting, from children desperate to adults will have avoid the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely pity stares, and desperate to get back to make it worsea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. And Meanwhile there's also the fact that for far too longa new (cute!) boy in school, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made her music A Level performance piece to try to seem like laziness. Being up earlysort out, working late has been praised and just the ability day to survive on little sleep has almost become something day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to put on your CVnavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801

|author=Rob WintersSimon Fox|title=His Name Was WrenDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something came down in Oban Woodsfrom a secret place, near and join him on the village of Hurstwickrun. It came down hardThey get together, taking but barely begin to smell the spire whiff of Southern trains when the village church with it, destroying a stone shackfather is arrested, and leaving a wide trail through Archie on the woodlate express to Brighton, but no trace of what it actually toting a tin his father was. German secret weapon was the local gossipdetermined to keep away from his colleagues, but there should have been an explosion and the bearer of a crater, and there were neither whole heap of those thingsquestions.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1839944420

|author=Mary H K ChoiLex Croucher|title=YolkGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary= Jayne Baek is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a fashion student that's barely getting bymost delightful way. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the men she sleeps with. Shekingdom's an allonly female knight) -round messy character; and something that's Art discovers from her charmprivate diaries. June And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, on creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other hand, is a complete contrast to Jaynewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's a typical older sister: she's smart But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, thinks she knows it all, and has will they find a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept way in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sickwhich they can both truly be themselves, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far or are they'll go destined to save each other's live a lie their whole lives – even if it means swapping identities.?|isbn= 03490036961526651793

|author=Becky AlbertalliNick Brooks|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friends, a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows this, and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X}}{{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess ShowPromise Boys

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate When the usual stresses principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, and three boysfind themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townseemingly, with has a mystery flu keeping lots grudge of people indoorssome description against Principal Moore, and a strange metal deviceeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, with an apple on itand why, that slips out and if any of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesthe boys are innocent, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to will they be responding able to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' lifeclear their names?|isbn=16836919701035003155

|isbn=17124357281919635017|title=Jamie's KeepsakeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Michael GallagherKitt Townsend

|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is herunning around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's just being released from ll have to wait to get an answer to the Southern General Hospitalsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The nurse thinks heBut I'll come back to visit answer the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing thatfirst one: he's been there for a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesgrandmother. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.

|author=Alice OsemanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=SolitaireDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Ant is in Year 12 following Christmas break Eleven at quite a standard school, and feels dead 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 world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid football team, and boringtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She has one real friend; As they're all fired up, straining at the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates leash only a lot of things single- including herself. But suddenlysex school can form, a blog called Solitaire has arrived the talk in class and is pulling pranks throughout the schoolout often turns to sex. And Michael Holden has appeared and Which is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know (or care) why shewhat his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's involvedhad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Whowhether that's behind it? Why does it all seem to set in stone, he can't be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Torisure. And that's life so badly and mostly because of who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger 's been having the relationship and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethe sex with.|isbn=97800075592201529509491

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1800901232|title=LovelessStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first Twelve-year of university and is in -old Hanh wanted to be a desperate struggle to figure herself outfashion designer. She's always been Life in love the rural village where she lived with love. With the idea of loveher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the idea of falling madly for someone smartly-dressed man and finding bliss. But woman came to the reality for her has always been different. She's never had village to offer Hahn a crushjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. She's never been kissed Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. And she's desperate to feel something Only, Hanh and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself other girls were not going to work in any kind of reala shop, tangible 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 physical way for her beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully- she's disgusted by it. But isn't placed rips and distressed seams that what shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's supposed to want? Isn't quite possible that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412XHanh and her co-workers made them.

|author=Arvin AhmadiPatrice Lawrence|title=How It All Blew UpNeedle|rating=43

|summary=18 year old Amir Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is American Iranian, a muslimextremely hard for some people to like, characters and gayreaders both. He struggles Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with his identitya pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, unable to face telling his parents who and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he really 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item ispart of the plot here, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himas Charlene is a wonder knitter, threatening to show his parents photographs and is making something full of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more...to Italy! So begins We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a journey for Amirstore detective, and his familythen force people to give her two days off school, where they all discover more about himwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, and who he really what exactly happens isnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and who he really wants to pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=14714099291800901011

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedAnn Sei Lin|title=The Black KidsRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the backdrop sky where soldiers of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a reaction man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the absolution of four police officers for beating power to form paper into whatever she desires – a black manpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, Rodney King, nearly to deathleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Told from Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the perspective of Ashley Bennettmatter, because the novel follows her evolution from Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a silent bystander when confronted with matters of raceshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a woman finding her voice sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and embracing her heritage.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14711881911406399590

|author=Suzanne CollinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesWrath

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refinedMeet Fitz, charming, and one a young Scottish lad full of the frustration at himself. Lockdown is only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gonejust over, his parents dead - and yet the facade must he should be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsfree to do what he wants, Coriolanus to go where he wants and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself to the world and secure from putting his place foot in the Capitol for good. But it when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself talks to be a spark in his worldbest friend, in Cassie. They were half of a way he desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could never have imaginedhear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for Is this connected with one of her life in the arena eco- but behind warrior parents saying the scenes, in end of the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will music she survive the Games's dreaming of? Will heIs she just bonkers? And what happens thencan Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=07023001791800900899

|author=James PattersonTori Bovalino|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents last thing Tess Matheson wants to come and get her. They left her there do — especially when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain gets a request for over a hundred books that they are never coming back for her, she continues has to head back there each day, just in casedeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Hawk isnThe boarding school't your ordinary street urchin thoughs headmaster, and a man Tess hates...she has wings, As a petty act of revenge for making her find and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with deliver such a group large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of other childrenthe books, all scribbled with interesting characteristics the ugliest insults she can think of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, thereThey's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought re never meant to the prison next door to where the children livereach him, and then one day Hawk comes home of course. Her plan is to find get her family have been taken away. Where have they been takenanger out like this, and can Hawk rescue then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's too late?t delivered them for her.|isbn=15291200041789098130

|author= Samira AhmedPhilip Reeve|title= Mad, Bad Utterly Dark and Dangerous to Knowthe Face of the Deep|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''In the enda word, we all become stories'' Spending the summer rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Paris sounds like this story set on a dream for most peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, especially artand sea-loverswitches, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about legends of the mess she left behind in ChicagoDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. On a chance encounter with a descendant The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Alexandre Dumasactivity from the Hidden Lands, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey his brother Will who lives in London with him too much science in his head to unveil the truth worry about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumassuch local yokel superstitions, Eugene Delacroix and Lord ByronAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but uncover both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the true story world of the woman and why protecting their island, like it was one that should never have been forgottenor not.|isbn=03490035561788452372

|author=Angela MackKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=I Am UnworthyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Isabel is determined Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the hurt, far NE of the fearScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and the person she becamethat kind of Scottish island. Josh Dad is determined going to keep going, even through be automating the ragelantern, the painwhich is his specialist thing, and using his fists while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to solve any problem or situationhunt the elusive Greenland shark. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him And Julia, well, she will be homesick and his brothers apartalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H1510107789

|author=Non PrattJonathan Stroud|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautifulScarlett McCain is an outlaw, 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 rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the promise of wildlands between the end Seven Kingdoms of GCSEs just months awayBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But one day, on January 1st, then she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. Someets Albert Browne, when her best friend Sophie receives a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious parcel from her 5 months aftermilitiamen hunting them down, she expects it they plan to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique flee to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise mythical Free Isles of 'treasure' at the end of it allLondon Lagoon. With each parcelTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, a new layer of the story cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of Freya is unwrapped post- and painful truths come apocalyptic society to light that threaten to break bondsreach the Free Isles, both new and old. Can what's been broken but will they be fixed? And why did Freya leaveany more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=14063669431406394815

|author=Kat EllisMercedes Helnwein|title=Harrow LakeSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxof a man with a "real" family, she is saying goodbye used to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsnot being a priority in people's lives. But when she is found by defends a random boy in her class with her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked doorslingshot, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his studysimple existence is changed for good. And so, while he recovers, No longer can she is sent off to live with spend her grandmother time writing novels in Harrow Lakesolitude, 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 life now has a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and boy in it that she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakenever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0241397049152905818X