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{{Frontpage|classauthor=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-"wikitable" cellpaddingLovence|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|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We 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. 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. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary="15"''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

<!-- House -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140637167XRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.jpg|link=http://wwwMira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.amazon.co.uk/dp/140637167X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===The Goose Road by Rowena House=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] It's 1916 and 14 year old Angélique and her mother are struggling to keep the But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's 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 guide her, she sets off in search of a family farm running while their menfolk fight on a distant battlefieldsecret that lies buried deep in the sea. When the Requisition soldiers visit a second timeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, claiming all as her journey takes her from the farm's remaining livestock apart from their flock watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of Toulouse geese, Angélique thinks things canthe smuggler't get any worse. Buts territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of course, they doher home and the ones she holds most dear. Her mother is taken ill and Angélique discovers secret debts that threaten their home. The situation seems hopeless until Angélique and her Uncle Gustav hatch a plan that could save the farm: a plan that will require Angélique to embark on a long journey across France with the only thing they have left |isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of any value – the geese. [[The Goose Road by Rowena HouseSun|Full Review]]rating=5 <!-- Christo -->|-| style|genre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Teens[[image:147140739X.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer.amazon.coLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.uk/dp/147140739X/ref|isbn=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1805140493}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre==[[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo]]===Teens [[image:3star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Lira and Elian are both royalty and they are both killers. Lira 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 the Siren princess, dealing with seventeen princes' hearts buried after collapsing on stage in the sand middle of a dance performance that was going to change her bedlife. Elian is the Midasan prince But she comes back fighting, and an infamous Siren hunter. When his friend is murdered, Elian is determined desperate to catch avoid the worst Siren of them allpity stares, the one they call the princeand desperate to get back to a life that's bane, and end this war between sea and landas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile Lira is hunting Elianthere's a new (cute!) boy in school, desperate her music A Level performance piece to try to save herself sort out, and secure just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her place as Sea Queento navigate. When fate throws them together So even though she can't dance anymore, they embark on a mission for their own ends, but can they really destroy each othermight she be able to sing her way through instead? [[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo|Full Review]]isbn=0571373801}}<!-- McCaughrain -->{{Frontpage|-author=Simon Fox| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Deadlock|[[image:1406375659.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1406375659/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Flying tips for flightless birds Late one night Graham Blake is a quirky late back from his shift on the force, and complex storythen suddenly rings Archie, told with an elegant simplicity that hooks you demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first few pagesrun. A gentle They get together, but gripping exploration barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the highs and lows of being father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a young person, of lovetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, friends and the relationship we have with ourselves and othersbearer of a whole heap of questions. [[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain|Full Review]]isbn=1839944420}}<!-- Faulks 7/3 -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lex Croucher| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4starWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seer's Curse'' is billed as a pre-teen novel In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, I would say that it would appeal much to a wide audience interested their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in fantasy and mythology, as well as just a good tale. [[The Seerlove with Bridget (the kingdom's Curse by J J Faulks|Full Review]] <!only female knight) -- Watscon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Piecingsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.uk/dp/1408897342/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=[[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson]]===4[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jade lives in a rough area summary=When the principal (headmaster) of PortlandUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Oregonthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. But she goes to a very posh school on scholarship.And Each, seemingly, as has a scholarship girlgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Jade knows she must grab every opportunity and each could have been there at the school offerstime of his murder. Her mother But who killed him, a care workerand why, won't be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice cream, let alone college. But why do all and if any of the opportunities the school offers Jade seem soboys are innocent, well, ''patronising''will they be able to clear their names? Jade doesn't feel like |isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a charity case. She doesnKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't feel broken. Her mum a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a good mum. It's infuriating. But, when the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarship, series of robberies? And how can she say nodid he learn to crack safes? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Barnard -->You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|-author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Different for Boys[[image:Barnard_Perfect.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens |summary===[[GoodbyeAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Perfect by Sara Barnard]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Edie McKinley isn't the world's greatest student. And she and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has a history of rebellious behaviour. But she has most been restructured, so his desk is one of that under control now, four with both his best buddy from the help of her adoptive familyfootball team, her lovely boyfriend and her best friend Bonnie, who is a straight A student with a bright future aheadtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. That is As they're all fired up, until Edie wakes up one morning to find straining at the police at her door. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriendleash only a single-sex school can form, Jack. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack, even with Edie the talk in class and Edie is about out often turns to find out why - Jack sex. Which is none other than Mr Cohnconfusing for Ant, a music teacher at schoolas he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. [[Goodbye He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, Perfect by Sara Barnard|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage[[image:Watson_Wren.jpg|leftisbn=1800901232|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408884933/refStitched Up|author=nosim?tagSteve Cole|rating=thebookbag-21]]5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="verticalTwelve-align: top; textyear-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5starold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Every year on St Stephens Day Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, Wren Silke is chased through so when the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. Her pursuers are Judges smartly- dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a group of powerful and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she job in Hanoi it was an Augur - their sworn enemy - the game would opportunity not to be upmissed.'' ''The Wren Hunt'' is set in a contemporary Ireland where Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the ancient druidic traditions are still in playmini-bus to Hanoi. The Judges have dominated Only, Hanh and the Augurs by buying up the land containing the sources of Augur power. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting and are determined other girls were not going to win it back. To this endwork in a shop, Wren has been chosen they were to infiltrate work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the house of ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the prominent Judge, Cassa Harkness, to find the information they need. legs? [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|Full Review]] <!ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co- Benway -->|-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle[[image:Benway_Far.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 3| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[Far from Brave. Charlene, the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Having just given up her new-born baby 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for adoptionsome people to like, 16-year-old Grace is desperate to look for the one person who could truly understand how she feelscharacters and readers both. The birth mother that gave her up for adoption when Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she was 's fostering with a baby. What Grace doesn't expectpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, is to discover that she and has siblingstaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. A confident, loud-mouthed younger sister, Maya, adopted by Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a wealthy family living just twenty minutes away. And Joaquincomfort blanket, their stoic older brotheryou might perhaps think, hardened by seventeen years in and out the creation of one such item is part of foster care. [[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!-- Miranda -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Miranda_Fragmentsplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.jpg|left|link=http://wwwAnd then.amazon.co.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tagwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1800901011}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre===[[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda]]===Teens[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the only boy she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friendsEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendHowever, Caleb, died but she still cannot find the strength when a man named Himura arrives to move on with tell her lifethat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. So when Caleb's mother He asks Jessa her to clean out his roomcome with him, things go from bad to worseleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. [[Fragments of Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Lost Midori is destroyed by Megan Miranda|Full Review]] <!a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-- Shaw -->ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|-isbn=1406399590| style}}{{Frontpage|author="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=https://wwwMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.5starThey 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 earth.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is determined to escape from his Home Academy and to find already a done deal? Is it some spooky new home with his dog, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge is going to be getting kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out and over the wall buttruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able to track everyone in the country via the 'hub chip' in their neck and in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trail. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, he is permitted to join their gang and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards the heavily guarded border with Scotland.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]] <!-- Khan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"| [[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering to the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating to being a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells the story of Muzna, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask her out despite interest from several other girls at school. However, her delight wavers when she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western culture. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]] <!-- Ahmed -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, 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]] <!-- Holland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything 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 not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to 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 of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]] <!-- Zurcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive 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 a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brown, but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]] <!-- Ingemundsen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came 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 the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the book is about. It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]] <!-- Norris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in 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 from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Dawson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 Elizacan't.. 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]] ||isbn=1800900899}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonTori Bovalino|title=Sunflowers in FebruaryThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the side of the road, last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she knows immediately gets a request for over a hundred books that something she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead bodyman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Wrong doesnThe boarding school't even begin to describe its headmaster, and a man Tess hates. A disembodied ghost, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath As a petty act of revenge for making her own deathfind and deliver such a large request, as her friends and family struggle to deal with the fallout from the hitTess sticks post-and-run that killed her. With no idea how to move it notes oneach of the books, Lily starts to despair, until one night scribbled with the ugliest insults she finally manages to make her presence knowncan think of. SheThey's always had a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thingre never meant to reach him, of course. Now that bond allows him Her plan is to see get her when no-one else cananger out like this, and gives her the chance to return to the living worldthen take them all off before delivering them. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her killer pay. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerPhilip Reeve|title= RenegadesUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 35|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is 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.5|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4

|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this worldScarlett McCain is an outlaw, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once rejecting the minority in a world draconian conformity of chaos the Surviving Towns and disorderFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, the Renegades fought for freedom robbing banks and justiceshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Victorious in driving their opponentsBut then she meets Albert Browne, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted a dark boy with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers dark powers and leaders of the future, governing a new peaceful and prosperous societydarker past. They are With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the heroes mythical Free Isles of society; the role models young children look up toLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the officers people look to for justice cannibalistic Tainted and strength. All except all the fraction horrors of Anarchists that hide in post-apocalyptic society to reach the darknessFree Isles, plotting and planning until but will they be any more accepted there than they are able to get back what was stolen from them.in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1406394815