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|author=Philip ReeveAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Utterly Dark 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 Face connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the DeepBefore and After

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=In a wordElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, rich. There their friendship is certainly an abundance of riches a once in this story set a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British trip out but way west, beyond unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the Scilliestime. There are troll people on it But then chance brings them back together, 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 sailthey are inseparable. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who Something has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Landshappened though, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionssomething terrible and tragic, and Andrewe's foundling daughternow they must work through their grief, 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 islandfriendship, like it or nottogether.|isbn=17884523721471196585

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonMax Boucherat|title=Julia and the SharkThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=JuliaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, our prejust an avidly rule-teen heroinebreaking eleven year old, has been packed off with on her parents and their cat from the family home lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summerblanket fort, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsshe has one main intention, and that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating log on to Voxminer, the lanternworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career a hit in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkLori's world. And JuliaBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, well, she will be homesick and alone – until then she suddenly finds company one nightsomething even more spooky.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett For the server she and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns her bestie and Faith Houses nobody else should be able to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms enter shows signs of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alivetampering. But then she meets Albert Browne When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to her safe place in the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Togethergame has been doctored – well, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society where is a girl to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britainturn?|isbn=14063948150008666482

|author=Mercedes HelnweinRachel Greenlaw|title=SlingshotCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely''I can hear the song of the sea. As a secret illegitimate daughter The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a man with a "real" familyremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, she is used one of the seven who swim out to not being survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a priority in peopletrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's livesfather. But when 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 guide her, she defends sets off in search of a random boy family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her class with her slingshotfather, as her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend journey takes her time writing novels in solitudefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, for Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her life now has a boy in it that home and the ones she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldholds most dear.|isbn=152905818X0008664730

|author= T L HuchuHarry Allen|title= The Library Children of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesSun

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be Ra Eun Seo lives in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where a North Korean town and she talks to is a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessestalented singer. They talk about their troubles Life is hard and help each other outfood is difficult to come by, while also providing an escape to just joke so Seo and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car tree bark and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect edible grasses to find there is a werewolf in supplement the basement – meagre rations of rice and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthskimchi at home.|isbn=16836923491805140493

|author=Goldy MoldavskyAlexia Casale|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnSing if you Can'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 a source of comfort. She struggles 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 style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganDance

|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 AgendaPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He has a close group of friends Each, a loving familyseemingly, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and that's Blue – a boy who he has each could have 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 time of being judgedhis murder. Until one day But who killed him, these emails fall into and why, and if any of the wrong handsboys are innocent, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=014135609X1035003155

|authorisbn=Anna Carey1919635017|title=This is Not the Jess ShowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess is a normal 90Solomon Klyne isn's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with t a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsbad lad, and so why is he running around London committing a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out series of her friendrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's bag, but that her friends just won't talk ll have to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems wait to be responding get an answer to her in strange ways sometimesthe second question because I avoid spoilers. Is there something going on beneath But I'll answer the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970first one: for his grandmother...

|isbnauthor=1712435728Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, heso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's just being released from re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the Southern General Hospitaltalk in class and out often turns to sex. The nurse thinks Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing t know what his score is, where his achievements in that: heregard lie. He's been there for had a casual relationship, a yearsecret one, on the same ward where his brother died and for several months now, with his hair all shorn offand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', hebut whether that's going home set in his dead brotherstone, he can's clothest be sure. 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 And that 's mostly because of who he's not to mention TB been having the relationship and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck the sex with that one, Alex.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1800901232|title=SolitaireStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringbe a fashion designer. She has one real friend; Life in the rest are just people rural village where she sits near lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so she's when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not a complete lonerto be missed. She hates a lot of things Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- including herselfbus to Hanoi. But suddenly Only, a blog called Solitaire has arrived Hanh and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in Tori's lifean illegal garment factory. Tori doesn't You know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire wantthose jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? Who's behind it The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori It's life so badly quite possible that Hanh and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreher co-workers made them.|isbn=9780007559220

|author=Alice OsemanPatrice Lawrence|title=LovelessNeedle|rating=53

|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's embarking on her first year of university and this piece is in a desperate struggle extremely hard for some people to figure herself like, characters and readers both. Kicked out. Sheof multiple homes and schools, she's always been in love fostering with love. With the idea of lovea pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for has taken up residence in her has always been different. Sheson Blake's never had a crush. Sheold room while he's never been kissedat uni. And she's desperate to feel something Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind creation of one such item is part of realthe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, tangible and physical way is making something full of love for her - younger sister – a younger sister she's disgusted by itallowed contact with no more. But isn't that what We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she's supposed to want? Isn't that shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what everyone exactly happens is supposed not for me to say, only to do? How come everyone else remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can do it? Why can't she?be...|isbn=000824412X1800901011

|author=Arvin AhmadiAnn Sei Lin|title=How It All Blew UpRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a muslim, massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and gaymake merry between their conquests. He struggles with his identityHowever, unable when a man named Himura arrives to face telling his parents who he really tell her that she isa Crafter like him, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, threatening to show his parents photographs leave the life of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaydreary servitude that is all she has known...to Italy! So begins Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a journey for Amirshikigami, and his familyshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, where they all discover more about him, and who he really a sky-ship whose express purpose isto hunt down shikigami, and who he really wants to be.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=14714099291406399590

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Black KidsWrath

|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsonly just over, a reaction and he should be free to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black mando what he wants, Rodney Kingto go where he wants and with whom he wants, nearly but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to deathhis best friend, Cassie. Told They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the perspective earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from world is already a silent bystander when confronted with matters done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of race? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=14711881911800900899

|author=Suzanne CollinsTori Bovalino|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesDevil Makes Three

|summary= Coriolanus Snow Working all summer in her boarding school's library is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of 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 affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by man who requested the warbooks: Mr Birch. Their riches goneThe boarding school's headmaster, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintaineda man Tess hates. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsa petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Coriolanus and other students Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Academy become books, scribbled with the first Mentors ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of the tributes in the gamescourse. This Her plan is his chance to prove himself to the world get her anger out like this, and secure his place in the Capitol for goodthen take them all off before delivering them. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both 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 for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a spark in his worldword, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way he could never have imaginedwest, beyond the Scillies. As There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Games commenceDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Lucy Gray fights for her life in where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the arena - but behind Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the scenesHidden 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 slysea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, complex both his sullen brother and strangely dangerous his curious ward are thrust into the world of the Capitolprotecting their island, Coriolanus is fighting for his life toolike it or not. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791788452372

|author=James PattersonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been waiting on packed off with her parents and their cat from the same street cornerfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, every dayin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, for yearsthat kind of Scottish island. She Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is waiting for his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her parents career in algae behind to come and get herhunt the elusive Greenland shark. They left her there when And Julia, well, she was just tiny, will be homesick and although alone – until she's almost certain that they are never coming back for hersuddenly 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, she continues rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to head back there each daywander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though..robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.But then she has wingsmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other childrendarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, all with interesting characteristics they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of their own and together they've made their own familythe London Lagoon. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualTogether, there's a mysterious childthey must brave man-killer who has been brought to eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the prison next door horrors of post-apocalyptic society to where reach the children liveFree Isles, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have but will they be any more accepted there than they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too lateare in the rest of Britain?|isbn=15291200041406394815

|author= Samira AhmedMercedes Helnwein|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowSlingshot|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In the endGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, we all become stories'' Spending the summer she is used to not being a priority in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess s lives. But when she left behind defends a random boy in Chicago. On a chance encounter her class with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasher slingshot, 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 Byronher simple existence is changed for good. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, but uncover the true story of the woman and why for her life now has a boy in it was one that should she never have been forgottenasked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=0349003556152905818X