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|isbnauthor=1406395404Ashley Hickson-Lovence|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 Awesome Power 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 Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Braincreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicola MorganJenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After

|summary=2020 has been Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementlifetime connection. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this They meet as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night one day on a trip out but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And thereunfortunately they don't get each other's also contact details at the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinesstime. Being up earlyBut then chance brings them back together, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep they are inseparable. Something has almost become happened though, something to put on your CVterrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Rob WintersMax Boucherat|title=His Name Was WrenThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 something came down We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwickbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It came down hardWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, taking the spire of the village church with itworld-building, destroying critter-collecting game that is a stone shack, hit in Lori's world. and leaving But first Lori has a wide trail through the woodtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but no trace of what it actually wasand then she finds something even more spooky. German secret weapon was For the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion server she and a crater, her bestie and there were neither nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of those thingstampering. 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=B08KGVNVNB0008666482

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiRachel Greenlaw|title=YolkCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by'I can hear the song of the sea. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about The call of the deep, the men she sleeps withanswering beat in my heart. She's an all-round messy character; ' Rosevear, a remote and that's her charm. Junepartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the other handwrecks. Mira, 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. But when the Council Watch lays a complete contrast trap to Jayne. Sheend the wrecking, they capture the island's a typical older sister: sheleader and Mira's smartfather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, thinks she knows it all, and has sets off in search of a successful jobfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. She constantly criticises Jayne for With only nine days to unearth what might save her life choicesfather, and as her journey takes her from the two have barely kept in contact despite living in watched streets of foreign islands to the same city for heart of the past two years. This is until June finds out shesmuggler's sickterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and Jayne is the only person ones she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesholds most dear.|isbn= 03490036960008664730

|author=Becky AlbertalliHarry Allen|title= Simon vs. Children of the Homo Sapiens AgendaSun

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Ra Eun Seo lives in a great life. He has a close group of friends, a loving family, North Korean town and even an adorable dog. But he has she is a secret: he's gaytalented singer. Only one person knows thisLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space Min go foraging every evening, looking for Simon; it's his own private universe without tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the fear meagre rations of being judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands, rice and everything Simon knows is turned upside downkimchi at home.|isbn=014135609X1805140493

|author=Anna CareyAlexia Casale|title=This is Not the Jess ShowSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Jess is a normal 90It's hard enough to navigate your teenage girl, just trying 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 usual stresses middle of school, and boys, and parent troublesa dance performance that was going to change her life. But strange things seem she comes back fighting, desperate to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsavoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a strange metal device, with an apple on it, life that slips out of her friend's bagas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, but that her friends music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just won't talk the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her aboutto navigate. Jess feels like So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding able to sing her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' lifeway through instead?|isbn=16836919700571373801

|isbnauthor=1712435728Simon Fox|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's just being released fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Southern General Hospitalrun. The nurse thinks he'll come back They get together, but barely begin to visit smell the other patients but Alex has no intention whiff of doing that: he's been there for a yearSouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the same ward where his brother died and nowlate express to Brighton, with toting a tin his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants father was determined to get outside and back with keep away from his friends: his brothercolleagues, Forbes, says that and the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexbearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420

|author=Alice OsemanLex Croucher|title=SolitaireGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Who knew that what I really needed to Year 12 following Christmas break read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and feels dead Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the world. Nothing their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; in love with Bridget (the rest are just people she sits near so shekingdom's not a complete loneronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. She hates And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a lot boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of things - including herselffalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But suddenlyas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere way in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (which they can both truly be themselves, or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem are they destined to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, reallylive a lie their whole lives? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=97800075592201526651793

|author=Alice OsemanNick Brooks|title=LovelessPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Georgia When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a teenager who's embarking on her first year grudge of university some description against Principal Moore, and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always each could have been in love with love. With there at the idea time of lovehis murder. But who killed him, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for her has always been different. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something why, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in if any kind of realthe boys are innocent, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by it. But isn't that what she's supposed will they be able to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't sheclear their names?|isbn=000824412X1035003155

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi1919635017|title=How It All Blew UpA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=18 year old Amir Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is American Iranian, he running around London committing a muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening get an answer to show the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaygrandmother...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Black KidsDifferent for Boys

|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel 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 ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is set against the backdrop one of four with both his best buddy from the 1992 Los Angeles riotsfootball team, a reaction 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 absolution of four police officers for beating leash only a black mansingle-sex school can form, Rodney King, nearly the talk in class and out often turns to deathsex. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, the novel follows her evolution from where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racecasual relationship, to a woman finding her voice 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 embracing her heritagethe sex with.|isbn=14711881911529509491

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1800901232|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the only surviving members of the affluent Snow rural village where she lived with her family. But their world was destroyed by happy, if not prosperous, so when the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead smartly- dressed man and yet woman came to the facade must village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be maintainedmissed. As Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the 10th Hunger Games beginsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Coriolanus Hanh and the other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance girls were not going to prove himself to the world and secure his place work in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself shop, they were to be a spark work in his world, virtual slavery in a way he could never have imaginedan illegal garment factory. As You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in legs? The ones with the arena artfully- but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooher co-workers made them. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179

|author=James PattersonPatrice Lawrence|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Brave. Charlene, the same street corner, every day, for years. She 'heroine' of this piece is waiting extremely hard for her parents some people to come like, characters and get herreaders both. They left her there when she was just tinyKicked out of multiple homes and schools, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, she continues to head back there each dayAnnie, just and has taken up residence in case. Hawk isnher son Blake't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned shes old room while he's been living with at uni. Such a group tempestuous personality may be in need of other childrena comfort blanket, all with interesting characteristics you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city plot here, as Charlene is seemingly even more troubled than usuala wonder knitter, thereand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children livestore detective, and then one day Hawk comes home force people to find give her family have been taken awaytwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Where have they been takenwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?be...|isbn=15291200041800901011

|author= Samira AhmedAnn Sei Lin|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowRebel Skies|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the endMidori, we all become stories'' Spending a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax Empire come to drink and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagomake merry between their conquests. On However, when a chance encounter with man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a descendant of Alexandre DumasCrafter like him, Khayyam finds herself on someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a historical journey power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him , to unveil leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the truth about matter, because the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre DumasMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronshe is forced to flee out into the world. As She joins Himura aboard the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselvesOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, but uncover the true story and a whole world of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.adventure awaits her…|isbn=03490035561406399590

|author=Angela MackMarcus Sedgwick|title=I Am UnworthyWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Isabel Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is determined only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn't go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to Gilleford Secondary School anymorehis best friend, Cassie. She can escape the hurtThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fear, and enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the person she becameearth. Josh is determined to keep going, even through Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the rage, end of the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabelworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's worlds collide, can they make their relationship workdreaming of? Can they both finally be happyIs she just bonkers? Or will Josh's time run And can Fitz find outthe truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=B089FL7H4H1800900899

|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title=Every Little Piece of My Heart|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, 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 after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow LakeThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she Working all summer in her boarding school's library is saying goodbye the last thing Tess Matheson wants to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But do — especially when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, gets a request for over a hundred books that she arrives has to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his studydeliver herself. And so, while he recovers, she What makes it worse is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for man who requested the film that made her parents famousbooks: Mr Birch. But something about this place isn't right. ThereThe boarding school's headmaster, and a darkness inside the people hereman Tess hates. Secrets about As a petty act of revenge for making her mother find and dark tales deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the townbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerre never meant to reach him, and disturbing happenings plague Lolaof course. But with every passing hourHer plan is to get her anger out like this, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakeif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=02413970491789098130

|author=Holly JacksonPhilip Reeve|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A month In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on from the explosive conclusion to a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little KiltonScillies. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders There are troll people onit, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionsea-witches, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from legends of the realisation Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their fathermonster approaching from even further west, Elliot Wardwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out of his houseAndrewe, bleeding, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries who has to heal again, six years on keep notes of activity from the events of that nightHidden Lands, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to one of Pippaworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's best friends has gone missingfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. And soBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-oldboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthlike it or not.|isbn=14052977511788452372

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= The Mermaid, the Witch Julia and the SeaShark|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= On the pirate ship DoveJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Flora the girl has assumed the identity of Florian been packed off with her parents and their cat from the man family home in an attempt SW England to fit be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in with the crewfar NE of the Scottish islands. Life Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is hard as a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things going to be discardedautomating the lantern, but anything has which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be better than starving on hunt the streetselusive Greenland shark. Meanwhile And Julia, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dovewell, headed off to she will be married to a military man homesick and alone – until she's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empiresuddenly finds company one night. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151510107789

|author=Holly JacksonJonathan Stroud|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=5 years agoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the tiny town draconian conformity of Little Kilton was rocked when beautiful, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a trace, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyone's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a 'confession' text the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and wander the wildlands between the case was closedSeven Kingdoms of Britain, so the town robbing banks and its families tried moved onshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocentBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with the help of his brother Ravidark powers and a darker past. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and Pippa begins they plan to flee to unearth the dark truth about mythical Free Isles of the beautifulLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School the cannibalistic Tainted and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she getshorrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the more dangerous it becomes.rest of Britain?|isbn=14052931871406394815

|author=Kat DunnMercedes Helnwein|title=Dangerous RemedySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= It's Paris, 1794Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. The Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst As a secret illegitimate daughter of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionariesa man with a "real" family, trying she is used to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and the Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intent. Caught not being a priority in a no manpeople's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion of the Deadlives. Led by But when she defends a disillusioned revolutionary's daughterrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, the band of outcasts have made a name her simple existence is changed for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent falloutgood. But they may have gotten No longer can she spend her time writing novels in over their heads with their latest rescue, Olympesolitude, for her life now has a girl with a disturbing history and powers boy in it that might just make her the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Parisshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |isbn=1789543649152905818X