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|author= T L HuchuLeanne Egan|title= The Library of the DeadLover Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalkerWhen new girl, Isabel, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit moves to Lou's hometown of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages Liverpool from the dead of Edinburgh London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for their living relativeseverything around her. Ever since A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she dropped out of schoollooks at Isabel or speaks with her, sheand that's been using definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it to support not only herself? Because Lou is straight, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, thereisn's an evil stalking the ruined streets t she? Even though none of Edinburghher relationships with boys have gone very well so far, targeting the cityand she's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for never had a missing boy at the request good kiss with any of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and realise that the world of magic wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is far bigger fun, and more dangerous than she ever coulddefinitely just hates Isabel, doesn've imagined. Will t she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452000862657X

|author=Kristen O'NealAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesWild East|rating=4.5

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseWritten in verse, Priya this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to come move to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her lifeNorwich and start at a mostly white school. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, an online support group where she talks and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a bunch new school, and keep himself out of other teens living with chronic illnessestrouble. They talk about their troubles and help each other out He listens to music constantly, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one has always dreamed of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for being a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on herrapper. But what she doesn't expect now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to find there is be part of a werewolf in the basement – poetry writing workshop group and for that werewolf , slowly, Ronny begins to be see the girl she has been talking to online for connections between rap and poetry, and the past few monthspower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=16836923490241645441

|author=Goldy MoldavskyJenny Valentine|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place Us in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, Before and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganAfter

|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, 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 reaction 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 absolution ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of four police officers for beating who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a black manfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, Rodney Kingif not prosperous, nearly so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to deathoffer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Told from Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the perspective of Ashley Bennettmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the novel follows her evolution from other girls were not going to work in a silent bystander when confronted with matters of raceshop, they were to a woman finding her voice 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 ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and embracing her heritageco-workers made them.|isbn=1471188191

|author=Suzanne CollinsPatrice Lawrence|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the warBrave. Their riches goneCharlene, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students 'heroine' of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This this piece is his chance extremely hard for some people to prove himself to the world like, characters and secure his place in the Capitol for goodreaders both. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances Kicked out of winning (both for her multiple homes and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be schools, she's fostering with a spark in his worldpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in a way her son Blake's old room while he could never have imagined's at uni. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life Such a tempestuous personality may be in the arena - but behind the scenesneed of a comfort blanket, in the slyyou might perhaps think, complex and strangely dangerous world the creation of one such item is part of the Capitolplot here, Coriolanus as Charlene is fighting a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for his life tooher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Will We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she survive the Games? Will he? shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens then?is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=07023001791800901011

|author=James PattersonAnn Sei Lin|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk Kurara has been waiting spent her entire life as a servant on the same street cornerMidori, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to come drink and get hermake merry between their conquests. They left However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her there when that she was just tinyis a Crafter like him, and although someone with the power to form paper into whatever she's almost certain that they are never coming back for desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks herto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she continues to head back there each dayhas known. Well, just in case. Hawk isnsoon Kurara won't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingshave any say in the matter, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a group of other childrenshikigami, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familyshe is forced to flee out into the world. But now She joins Himura aboard the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualOrihime, there's a mysterious childsky-killer who has been brought to the prison next door ship whose express purpose is to where the children livehunt down shikigami, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=15291200041406399590

|author= Samira AhmedMarcus Sedgwick|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowWrath|rating= 34.5

|summary=''In the endMeet Fitz, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most peopleyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, especially art-loversto go where he wants and with whom he wants, but Khayyam can't relax and he cannot stop thinking about the mess she left behind himself from putting his foot in Chicagoit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. On They were half of a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasdesultory school band, Khayyam finds herself on but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a historical journey with him to unveil subhuman hum coming from the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths earth. Is this connected with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As one of her eco-warrior parents saying the two teenagers travel end of the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story world is 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 woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottentruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=03490035561800900899

|author=Angela MackTori Bovalino|title=I Am UnworthyThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary= Isabel Working all summer in her boarding school's library is determined the last thing Tess Matheson wants to start freshdo — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Start again. Sixth form will be differentWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Her tormentor doesnThe boarding school't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymores headmaster, and a man Tess hates. She can escape the hurtAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the fearbooks, and scribbled with the person ugliest insults she becamecan think of. Josh is determined They're never meant to keep going, even through the ragereach him, the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situationof course. But he has secrets that threaten Her plan is to tear him get her anger out like this, and his brothers apartthen take them all off before delivering them. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collideNo harm done… Or it would be, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Joshif someone hadn's time run out?t delivered them for her.|isbn=B089FL7H4H1789098130

|author=Non PrattPhilip Reeve|title=Every Little Piece Utterly Dark and the Face of My Heartthe Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Freya was In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a beautifulpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, popular and complex girlbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16sea-year-old studentwitches, complete with best friend and the promise legends of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1stDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, she justwhere no ship dare sail... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. SoThe current Darks are the Watcher, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterAndrewe, she expects it who has to contain answers keep notes of some kind, but is surprised to find activity from the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerHidden Lands, and then another layer his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to another person and anotherworry about such local yokel superstitions, each containing an item unique to them and FreyaAndrewe's foundling daughter, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise who washed up out of 'treasure' at the end of it allsea one day eleven years ago. With each parcelBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, a new layer of both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the story and world of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bondsprotecting their island, both new and oldlike it or not. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669431788452372

|author=Kat EllisKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Harrow LakeJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet 17Julia, our pre-year-old Lolateen heroine, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out has been packed off with her parents and stealing their cat from its residents. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come the family home, she arrives in SW England to find an unlocked door, be lighthousekeepers for a trail of bloodsummer, and her father dying in his studythe far NE of the Scottish islands. And so Here be Vikings, while he recoversthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, she which is sent off to live with his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her grandmother career in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside algae behind to hunt the people hereelusive Greenland shark. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner And Julia, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hourwell, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not will be stories at all, homesick and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=02413970491510107789

|author=Holly JacksonJonathan Stroud|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=A month on from the explosive conclusion to Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey draconian conformity of discovering the truth about Andie Surviving Towns and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attention, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the realisation that their father, Elliot WardSeven Kingdoms of Britain, had murdered Sal Singh robbing banks and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she stumbled out of his house, bleedingmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and disappeared into the nighta darker past. As the town tries With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to heal again, six years on from the events mythical Free Isles of that nightthe London Lagoon. Together, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynoldsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, older brother to one the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And so, alongside her difficult life as a semipost-famous eighteen-year-oldapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the truth.rest of Britain?|isbn=14052977511406394815