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|author=AkalaAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Dark LadyWild East

|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny''For s story, a street kid young black fourteen year old boy from the DevilHackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's Gap, Londonmum who is worried for Ronny's most notorious slumsafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, life is short and toughkeep himself out of trouble. For Henry He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a boy thief with brown skinrapper. But now, inherited from a mother who abandoned himin this new school, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems teacher encourages him to represent be part of a pastpoetry 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 possibly Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a futurelifetime 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.''Henry Something has happened though, something terrible and his friendstragic, brother and sister Matthew now they must work through their grief, and Marytheir friendship, have various ways together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of getting byLori Mills|rating=4. Sometimes they pick pockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the rich. Itfirst evening she's crime or starve got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- but crime 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 dangerous and they risk to log on to Voxminer, the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choicesworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But there are pleasures toofirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and for Henry, then she finds something even more spooky. For the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre server she and her bestie and the plays nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of William Shakespearetampering. Henry loves language and often makes When malevolent eyes spark up sonnets about what he sees around him on her phone screen, and how he feels. her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn= 14449436930008666482

|author= Alyssa SheinmelRachel Greenlaw|title= What Kind of GirlCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're notI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into school with a black eyethe rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, claiming he gave it to like her mother before her, her whole world is tipped upside downone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Her relationship has just ended But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and now sheMira's the talk of the schoolfather. Mike was the most popular boy in school Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who was always so in love is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, everyone knew she sets off in search of a family secret thatlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe as her journey takes her and some donfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'ts territory, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to blow over any time soonsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03490032970008664730

|author= Ben OliverHarry Allen|title= The LoopChildren of the Sun|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to a horrific level come by machines, The Loop follows so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the precarious existence meagre rations of adolescent Luka Kanerice and kimchi at home. In |isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regularslife-changing disability too, he but that's what Ven is trapped inside a living hell dealing with no chance after collapsing on stage in the middle of escapea dance performance that was going to change her life. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a trigger held by the guards who life that's as normal as she can end his life with one squeezepossibly manage. Luka is taunted by limited access Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to his memories sort out, and relentlessly drained just the day to day traumas of energy all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through a gruelling daily torture ritualinstead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he is fetch something from a guinea pig for Alts in secret place , and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of execution] after Delay he Southern trains when the father is in despair. His prison is based arrested, leaving Archie on the model late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of an infinity loop designed a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to make its inmates sufferread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. With 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 glimmers of hope being female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the rumours subterfuge of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wrenfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can Luka ever both truly be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loopthemselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=19126265511526651793

|author=Mark LinganeNick Brooks|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Promise Boys

|summary= ''Degrade'' opens When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging actionsuspects. Poor Arid Each, alone in the desert since his parents were killedseemingly, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his is pretty much destroyedmurder. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella But who killed him, and on board the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughterif any of the boys are innocent, Frey, stranded in the desert....will they be able to clear their names?|isbn= 099461649X1035003155

|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi1919635017|title=PetA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by the angelsSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, those who rid the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymore. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds so why is he running around London committing a little onto one series of her motherrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes ll have to wait to life and declares that it is here get an answer to hunt the monstersecond question because I avoid spoilers. Though Jam tries to convince it that all But I'll answer the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there is first one, still, and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemption: for his grandmother...|isbn=0571355110

|author=Leigh BardugoPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Louise Simonson and Kit Seatonis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, 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|isbn=1800901232|title=Wonder Woman: WarbringerStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, 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 mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The Graphic Novelones 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-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle

|summary=DianaBrave. Charlene, being unique on the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her islandson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the victim of plot here, as Charlene is a lot of tauntswonder knitter, and claims is making something full of nepotism. Itlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's only allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her unique statusbelligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her mother being Queentwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, that only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara 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. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with any standing at the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after allacross the Empire. He asks her to come with him, her naysayers declare – even though to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has clearly fought to be a strong young womanknown. Perhaps too strong for Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the islandmatter, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for because the World of MenMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and this Diana she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the heroine Orihime, a sky-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|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of yet another Wonder Woman origin storyfrustration at himself. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance Lockdown 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. They were half of a running racedesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the survivor enigmatic – saying she drags could hear a subhuman hum coming from the waters earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is only going already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to disturb do — especially when she gets a request for over a lot morehundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. 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.|isbn=14012825551789098130

|author=Tanya LandmanPhilip Reeve|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A young womanIn a word, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a dreary schoolpeculiar island called Wildsea, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like British but way west, beyond the life she wants – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and with only one jobsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to tutor a young half-French girlkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, whose father is almost always absentwhere no ship dare sail. When he does turn up he seems 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 be darkworry about such local yokel superstitions, brooding and troubled – but thatAndrewe's nothing compared to the darkerfoundling daughter, more broody and even more troubled secret in who washed up out of the housesea one day eleven years ago. YesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, if you know Jane Eyre then you know both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rest – but if you don'tworld of protecting their island, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn tolike it or not.|isbn=17811291261788452372

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Permanent RecordJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=PabloJulia, a college dropour pre-outteen heroine, is working at has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a New York bodega. He's massively in debtsummer, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! the far NE of the Scottish islands. Whilst working one eveningHere be Vikings, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipkind of Scottish island. With one character who Dad is trying very hard not going to be seen or noticed by anyoneautomating the lantern, and the other who which is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherelusive Greenland shark. This isn't just a love story thoughAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=03490034591510107789

|author= Alexandra ChristoJonathan Stroud|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the city Seven Kingdoms of CreijeBritain, Taviarobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a magical con-artist, specialises in wowing gullible tourists dark boy with cheap charms dark powers and trickerya darker past. HoweverWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, when a new and powerful form they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of magic unlike anything seen in decades begins trickling onto the streetsLondon Lagoon. Together, nearly killing her close friend Saxonythey must brave man-eating wildlife, Tavia begins the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to worry. At reach the same time, her childhood best friend WesleyFree Isles, the youngest underboss but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the city, discovers that Dante Ashwood, kingpin rest of the Creijen criminal underworld, Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has his sights set on world dominationresigned herself to being lonely. ItAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's now up to the four unlikely allies to bring down his planslives.But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good.No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=1250318378152905818X

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401280048.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401280048/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder? [[Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Tamaki and Pugh -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401283292.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401283292/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact Move on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who calls himself The Joker… [[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526613689.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526613689/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]  <!-- Thakur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140638853X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140638853X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Thrillers Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur|Full Review]] <!-- Lawrence -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444940651.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Filby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999683587.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999683587/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]  <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]] <!-- Webb -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1916459900.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916459900/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident... [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb|Full Review]] <!-- Whitlock -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1782692177.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives. This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}