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|author=Non PrattAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartWild East|rating=4.5

|summary= Freya was Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a beautiful, popular young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and complex girlstart at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, loved by many and seemingly stable so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studentnew town, a new school, complete with best friend and the promise keep himself out of the end trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of GCSEs just months awaybeing a rapper. But one daynow, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterin this new school, she expects it his teacher encourages him to contain answers be part of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerpoetry writing workshop group and, and then another layer to another person and anotherslowly, each containing an item unique Ronny begins to them see the connections between rap and Freyapoetry, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer power of the story creativity and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldcrafting your words. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669430241645441

|author=Kat EllisJenny Valentine|title=Harrow LakeUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaElk and Mab are best friends, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxor more than that even, she their friendship is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying once in his studya lifetime connection. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served They meet as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't right. Thereget each other's a darkness inside contact details at the people heretime. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner But then chance brings them back together, and disturbing happenings plague Lolathey are inseparable. But with every passing hour Something has happened though, secrets long buried come painfully to light something terrible and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at alltragic, and something very real now they must work through their grief, and sinister lurks in Harrow Laketheir friendship, together.|isbn=02413970491471196585

|author=Holly JacksonMax Boucherat|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A month We meet Lori on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippafirst evening she's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering got the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their fathermother at work, Elliot Wardjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a girl he thought was Andie after blanket fort, she stumbled out of his house, bleedinghas one main intention, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries that is to log on to heal againVoxminer, six years on from the events of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy nightdoesn't find herself entirely on her own, tragedy strikes againand then she finds something even more spooky. Jamie Reynolds, older brother For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to one enter shows signs of Pippa's best friends has gone missingtampering. And so When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, alongside and her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, she where is once again taken down a dark, twisted path girl to discover the truth.turn?|isbn=14052977510008666482

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallRachel Greenlaw|title= The Mermaid, the Witch Compass and the SeaBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= On ''I can hear the song of the pirate ship Dovesea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Flora survives on luring ships into the girl has assumed rocks and plundering the identity wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Florian the man in an attempt seven who swim out to fit in with survey the crewruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Life is hard as But when the Council Watch lays a piratetrap to end the wrecking, trust they capture the island's leader and empathy are the first things Mira's father. Desperate to be discardedsave him from death, but anything has Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to be better than starving on guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the streetssea. MeanwhileWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the Dovesmuggler's territory, headed off Mira must be determined to be married stop at nothing to a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony save the future of her home and the Nipran Empireones she holds most dear. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043150008664730

|author=Holly JacksonHarry Allen|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderChildren of the Sun

|summary=5 years ago, the tiny Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without and she is a trace, presumed murderedtalented singer. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text Life is hard and food is difficult to his dad come by, so Seo and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closed, so the town friends Nari and its families tried moved on. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, with the help of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and Pippa begins edible grasses to unearth supplement the dark truth about the beautiful, innocent queen bee meagre rations of Kilton Grammar School rice and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she gets, the more dangerous it becomeskimchi at home.|isbn=14052931871805140493

|author=Kat DunnAlexia Casale|title=Dangerous RemedySing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary= It's Parishard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, 1794. The Revolution but that's what Ven is five years old and the country dealing with after collapsing on stage in the midst middle of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionariesa dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, trying desperate to maintain their control by whatever means necessaryavoid the pity stares, and the Royalists, still loyal desperate to get back to monarchy intent. Caught in a no manlife that's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion of the Deadas normal as she can possibly manage. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary Meanwhile there's daughter, the band of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent fallout. But they may have gotten new (cute!) boy in over their heads with their latest rescueschool, Olympeher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, a girl with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her the spark that blows up day to day traumas of all the powder-keg of revolutionary Parischallenges 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 instead?|isbn=17895436490571373801

|author=Jenny ValentineSimon Fox|title=Hello NowDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jude reluctantly moves to a smallLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a bigthen suddenly rings Archie, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to contain demanding he fetch something from a strangesecret place, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in and join him on the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can'trun. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane They get together, reality she is consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be barely begin to smell the last time, she swears. This world whiff of Southern trains when the father is quietarrested, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until leaving Archie on the day Novo arriveslate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and her entire concept the bearer of the world changes forevera whole heap of questions.|isbn=00074664981839944420

|author= Ashley PostonLex Croucher|title= Bookish Gwen and the BeastArt Are Not in Love|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced Who knew that what I really needed to Rosie Thorneread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Small Townmost delightful way. In this story, USA girl who has recently lost her mother Gwen and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for RosieArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and love with her motherBridget (the kingdom's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damageonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a paparazzi escapeboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, to repay creating the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond subterfuge of her either. Howeverfalling in love with each other, as the two when really they are forced to get to know each enabling their own otherromantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, their guards begin to lower and will they find a way in which they discover that maybe this situation might not can both truly be so terrible after all. themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=16836919381526651793

|author=Patrick NessNick Brooks|title=BurnPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - When the very day, in factprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for three boys find themselves called into the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas police station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know itsuspects. In this alternate US Each, there is still a Cold War with the Russiansseemingly, still has a concomitant arms race. And the stain grudge of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah some description against Principal Moore, and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware each could have been there at the time ofhis murder. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy But who killed him, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate worldand why, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few if any of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they the boys are dragonsinnocent, after all.Poor Frankie! will they be able to clear their names?|isbn= 14063755001035003155

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1919635017|title=Love FrankieA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Frankie Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS, when your dad has decided 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 answer to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all, when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you donBut I't fancy him backll answer the first one: for his grandmother... Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897

|author= Becky Albertalli Patrick Ness and Aisha SaeedTea Bendix|title= Yes No Maybe So Different for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes is surprised to find his geography class (within which it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been spending restructured, so his summer helping desk is one of four with both his cousin with campaigning best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in time for fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a special electionsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing Which is confusing for Ant, as he candoesn't think of anything worse. Howeverknow what his score is, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer where his fear of speaking to the publicachievements in that regard lie. Maya is He's had a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through casual relationship, a separationsecret one, for several months now, she and so has zero plans for effectively progressed up the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy herladder headed by 'experienced', her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo but whether that's set in historystone, as neither of them really want to he can't be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover sure. And that they care, a lot, about 's mostly because of who he's been having the election - relationship and maybe even about each other?the sex with.|isbn=14711846681529509491

|authorisbn=Akala1800901232|title=The Dark LadyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''For Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a street kid from fashion designer. Life in the Devil's Gaprural village where she lived with her family was happy, London's most notorious slumif not prosperous, life is short so when the smartly-dressed man and tough. For Henry, woman came to the village to offer Hahn a boy thief with brown skin, inherited from a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher stilljob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. She seems to represent a past Only, Hanh and possibly the other girls were not going to work in a future...''Henry and his friendsshop, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pick pocketswere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Sometimes they rob You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the houses of legs? The ones with the rich. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's crime or starve quite possible that Hanh and her co- but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feelsworkers made them. |isbn= 1444943693

|author= Alyssa SheinmelPatrice Lawrence|title= What Kind of GirlNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' Doing something when you're scared of this piece is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parkerextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's girlfriend comes into school fostering with a black eyepleasant yoga tutor, claiming he gave it to herAnnie, and has taken up residence in her whole world is tipped upside downson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Her relationship has just ended Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and now she's the talk creation of one such item is part of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in plot 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 herbelligerence with a store detective, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some and then force people believe to give her and some don'ttwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, but one thing what exactly happens is not for sureme to say, this isn't going only to blow over any time soonremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=03490032971800901011

|author= Ben OliverAnn Sei Lin|title= The LoopRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary= Set during Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the aftermath of Midori, a Third World War massive dining hall floating in the sky where methods soldiers of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up 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 horrific level by machinesCrafter like him, The Loop follows someone with the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In power to form paper into whatever she desires – a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him , to a trigger held by leave the guards who can end his life with one squeezeof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Luka Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is taunted destroyed by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [monstrous paper spirit known as a risky medical trial where he shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison sky-ship whose express purpose is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside hunt down shikigami, and the visits a whole world of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?adventure awaits her…|isbn=19126265511406399590

|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Wrath|rating=4.5

|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go on - where he wants and with inyerfacewhom he wants, banging action. Poor Arid, alone but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the desert since it when he talks to his parents best friend, Cassie. They were killedhalf of a desultory school band, has but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyedsubhuman hum coming from the earth. He finds himself rescued by the mysteriousIs this connected with one of her eco-but-fascinating Ella and on board warrior parents saying the ''Moonlight'' under end of the suspicious eyes world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of its leader, Queen Bea. Beamusic she's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out why that isthe truth? Well, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Beanot when Cassie has gone missing he can's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert.t...|isbn= 099461649X1800900899

|author=Akwaeke EmeziTori Bovalino|title=PetThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the monsters are gone. Their children are raised last thing Tess Matheson wants to understand do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that they were saved by she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the angels, those man who rid requested the town of evilbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and there are no monsters anymorea man Tess hates. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds As a little onto one petty act of revenge for making her mother's paintings. The blood awakens find and deliver such a bizarrelarge request, terrifyingTess sticks post-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt notes on each of the monster. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are gonebooks, Pet is certain that there is one, still, and that scribbled with the monster is hiding in the home ugliest insults she can think of her best friend, Redemption.|isbn=0571355110}}{{Frontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=DianaThey're never meant to reach him, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotismcourse. It's only Her plan is to get her unique statusanger out like this, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at then take them all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – if someone hadn't delivered them for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|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