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{{Frontpage|classauthor=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.''

<!-- Killeen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1474942385Rosevear, 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.amazonBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.coDesperate 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 secret that lies buried deep in the sea.uk/dp/1474942385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen]]==With only nine 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 the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{Children of the Sun|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens=5|genre=Teens]] Sarah, |summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany as WWII North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is about difficult to break outcome by, finds herself alone after so Seo and her mother is shot as they try friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to escape supplement the countrymeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. She meets a mysterious man and, in a fit of dangerous altruism, saves him from arrest by the soldiers. This reckless act changes everything for Sarah, who finds herself recruited as a spy and sent to infiltrate a girl|isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's school full of 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 dealing with after collapsing on stage in the daughters middle of the great and good of the Reich. Her mission? To befriend the daughter of a nuclear scientist and get access a dance performance that was going to his researchchange her life. Sarah might be Jewish but But she is also blonde-haired comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and blue-eyed. But will this be enough desperate to maintain her cover? The tiniest slip could be fatalget back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage... [[Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen|Full Review]] < Meanwhile there's a new (cute!-- House -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140637167X) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate.jpg So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140637167X/ref=nosim?tag0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21]] Simon Fox| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Deadlock|rating===[[The Goose Road by Rowena House]]===4.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|Teens]] It's 1916 summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and 14 year old Angélique then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and her mother are struggling join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to keep smell the whiff of Southern trains when the family farm running while their menfolk fight father is arrested, leaving Archie on a distant battlefield. When the Requisition soldiers visit a second timelate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, claiming all and the farm's remaining livestock apart from their flock bearer of a whole heap of Toulouse geese, Angélique thinks things can't get any worsequestions. But, of course, they do. Her mother is taken ill |isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Angélique discovers secret debts that threaten their home. The situation seems hopeless until Angélique and her Uncle Gustav hatch a plan Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that could save the farm: a plan that will require Angélique what I really needed to embark on read right now was a long journey across France gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. 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 kingdom's only thing female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they have left find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of any value – the geese. [[The Goose Road by Rowena House|Full Review]] <!-- Christo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:147140739Xfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147140739X/ref=nosim 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?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Brooks|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|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 When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is the Siren princessmurdered, with seventeen princes' hearts buried in three boys find themselves called into the sand of her bedpolice station as suspects. Elian is the Midasan prince Each, and an infamous Siren hunter. When his friend is murderedseemingly, Elian is determined to catch the worst Siren has a grudge of them allsome description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the one they call the prince's bane, and end this war between sea and landtime of his murder. Meanwhile Lira is hunting Elian But who killed him, desperate to save herself and secure her place as Sea Queen. When fate throws them togetherwhy, they embark on a mission for their own endsand if any of the boys are innocent, but can will they really destroy each otherbe able to clear their names? [[To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo|Full Review]]isbn=1035003155}}<!-- McCaughrain -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1919635017| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend[[image:1406375659.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406375659/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|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 is Solomon Klyne isn't a quirky and complex storybad lad, told with so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an elegant simplicity that hooks you from answer to the first few pagessecond question because I avoid spoilers. A gentle but gripping exploration of But I'll answer the highs and lows of being a young person, of love, friends and the relationship we have with ourselves and othersfirst one: for his grandmother... [[Flying Tips for Flightless Birds by Kelly McCaughrain|Full Review]] <!-- Faulks 7/3 -->}}{{Frontpage|-author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Different for Boys[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Teens | stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seer's Curse'' Ant 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 billed as a pre-teen novelever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, I would say that it would appeal to a wide audience interested and two other old muckers – in fantasy and mythology, as well as just a good talefact they all go back to primary school days together. [[The Seer As they's Curse by J J Faulks|Full Review]] <!re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-- Watscon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Watson_Piecingsex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie.uk/dp/1408897342/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Piecing Me Together He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link'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=Category:{{{rating1529509491}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|Teens]]author=Steve Cole|rating=5Jade lives in a rough area of Portland, Oregon. But she goes to a very posh school on scholarship|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer.And Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, as a scholarship girlif not prosperous, Jade knows she must grab every so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the school offersmini-bus to Hanoi. Her mother Only, a care worker, won't be paying for college after all - there is rarely enough money at home for ice creamHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, let alone collegethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But why do all You know those jeans you really wanted: the opportunities ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the school offers Jade seem legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so, well, ''patronising''soft when you touched them? Jade doesn It't feel like a charity cases quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. She doesn't feel broken. Her mum is a good mum. It's infuriating. But, when the school offers Jade a mentoring programme that will ensure a college scholarship, how can she say no? [[Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|Full Review]] <!-- Barnard -->rating=3|-genre=Teens| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Barnard_PerfectBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[GoodbyeSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, 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 has as Charlene is a history wonder knitter, and is making something full of rebellious behaviour. But love for her younger sister – a younger sister she has most of that under control now, 's allowed contact with the help of no more. We see Charlene prove her adoptive familybelligerence with a store detective, her lovely boyfriend and then force people to give her best friend Bonnietwo days off school, who is a straight A student with a bright future aheadwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... That well, what exactly happens isnot for me to say, until Edie wakes up one morning only to find the police at her doorremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Bonnie has run away with her boyfriend, Jack. Bonnie has been very mysterious about Jack, even with Edie and Edie is about to find out why - Jack is none other than Mr Cohn, a music teacher at school. [[Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]isbn=1800901011}}<!-- Watson -->{{Frontpage|-author= Ann Sei Lin| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rebel Skies|rating= 5[[image:Watson_Wren.jpg|leftgenre= Teens|linksummary=http://www.amazon.coKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests.uk/dp/1408884933/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson]]=== [[image:5starHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Every year on St Stephens DayHe asks her to come with him, Wren Silke is chased through to leave the forest life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a warped version of monstrous paper spirit known as a childhood game. Her pursuers are Judges - a group of powerful shikigami, and frightening boys who know nothing of her true identityshe is forced to flee out into the world. If they knew she was an Augur She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky- their sworn enemy - the game would be up.''ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath''The Wren Hunt'' is set in a contemporary Ireland where the ancient druidic traditions are still in play. The Judges have dominated the Augurs by buying up the land containing the sources |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Augur powerfrustration at himself. The Augurs can feel their magic depleting Lockdown is only just over, and are determined he should be free to win it back. To this enddo what he wants, Wren has been chosen to infiltrate the house of the prominent Judge, Cassa Harknessgo where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to find his best friend, Cassie. 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 information they needearth. [[The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson|Full Review]] <!Is this connected with one of her eco-- Benway -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Benway_Far.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471164330/ref=nosimwarrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal?tag=thebookbag-21]] Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating==[[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensTeens|Teens]] Having just given up summary= Working all summer in her new-born baby for adoption, 16-year-old Grace boarding school's library is desperate the last thing Tess Matheson wants to look for the one person who could truly understand how do — especially when she feels. The birth mother that gave her up gets a request for adoption when she was over a baby. What Grace doesn't expect, is to discover hundred books that she has siblingsto deliver herself. A confident, loud-mouthed younger sisterWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, Maya, adopted by and a wealthy family living just twenty minutes awayman Tess hates. And Joaquin, their stoic older brotherAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, hardened by seventeen years in and out Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of foster care. [[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]] <!-- Miranda -->|-They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve[[image:Miranda_Fragments.jpg|lefttitle=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0399556729/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[Fragments 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 Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4Scillies.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the only boy she Dark family that has ever lovedto keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendThe current Darks are the Watcher, CalebAndrewe, died but she still cannot find who has to keep notes of activity from the strength Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to move on with her life. So when Calebworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's mother asks Jessa to clean foundling daughter, who washed up out his room, things go from bad to worse. [[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]] <!-- Shaw -->|-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.| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ieJulia and the Shark|rating=UTF8&tag4|genre=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="verticalJulia, our pre-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4teen 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.5star Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake Dad is determined going to escape from be automating the lantern, which is his Home Academy and to find a new home with his dog, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge is going specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be getting out and over hunt the wall butelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, when he doeswell, he finds this is the least of his worriesshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The governing 'Coalition' is able 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 track everyone in wander the country via wildlands between the 'hub chip' in their neck Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trailshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a gang of ''outwalker'' kidsdarker past. After proving his worthWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, he is permitted they plan to flee to join their gang and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards the heavily guarded border with Scotlandmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]] <!Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post- Khan -->apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1406394815 [[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 Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]] |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonMercedes Helnwein|title=Sunflowers in FebruarySlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the roada man with a "real" family, she knows immediately that something is wrongused to not being a priority in people's lives. Then But when she sees her body lying defends a random boy in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it. A disembodied ghost, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own death, as her friends and family struggle to deal class with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despairslingshot, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownsimple existence is changed for good. She's always had a strong bond with No longer can she spend her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else cantime writing novels in solitude, and gives for her the chance to return to the living world. Lily life now has a lot of unfinished business. And top on boy in it that list is making her killer payshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>152905818X