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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the roadIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, she knows immediately but that something 's what Ven is wrong. Then she sees her body lying dealing with after collapsing on stage in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin middle of a dance performance that was going to describe itchange her life. A disembodied ghost But she comes back fighting, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating desperate to avoid the horrid aftermath of her own deathpity stares, as her friends and family struggle desperate to get back to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run a life that killed her. With no idea how to move on, Lily starts to despair, until one night 's as normal as she finally manages to make her presence knowncan possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's always had a strong bond with new (cute!) boy in school, her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him music A Level performance piece to try to see her when no-one else cansort out, and gives just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her the chance body continues to return throw at her to the living worldnavigate. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her killer pay. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerSimon Fox|title= RenegadesDeadlock|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the minority in a world of chaos and disorderforce, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious in driving their opponentsthen suddenly rings Archie, the leaderless Anarchists undergrounddemanding he fetch something from a secret place, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of join him on the future, governing a new peaceful and prosperous societyrun. They are get together, but barely begin to smell the heroes whiff of society; Southern trains when the role models young children look up father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express toBrighton, the officers people look toting a tin his father was determined to for justice keep away from his colleagues, and strength. All except the fraction bearer of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from thema whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldLex Croucher|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In ''Ballad for a Mad Girl''this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Grace becomes obsessed is in love with solving Bridget (the mystery of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahkingdom's ghostonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. The more she investigates And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the more she is convinced Hannah's case is subterfuge of falling in some way linked to her love with each other, when really they are enabling their own Mother's deathother romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a former classmate of Hannah's who died way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a strange accident two years ago.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonNick Brooks|title= The Extinction TrialsPromise Boys|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newmurdered, efficient food sourcesthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father Each, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded sheltersseemingly, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a meangrudge of some description against Principal Moore, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for each could have been there at the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent time of Piloriahis murder. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered But who killed him, and why, and if any of the citizens of Earthasia boys are innocent, will have access they be able to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)1919635017|title=My Sweet Orange TreeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''It's just that sometimest a bad lad, Zeze, you're too naughty.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – so why is he's running around London committing a young tyke, and everyone in his large, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in the neighbourhood – knows series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's skilled at being up ll have to wait to get an answer to no good, that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should residesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when heBut I's only five, ll answer the precocious brat is forced to face something that might be the changing of him, once and first one: for all – schoolhis grandmother. This time of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular tree, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Star by StarDifferent for Boys|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Ant is in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies 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 one of four with both his best buddy from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe football team, and two other old muckers – in November 1918, Stella is sent fact they all go back to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding houseprimary school days together. This coincides with As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a time of great change for single-sex school can form, the country as women are allowed talk in class and out often turns to vote for the first timesex. Stella Which is determined to follow confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in her motherthat regard lie. He's footsteps to help make historyhad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and whilst her age denies her so has effectively progressed up the ability to vote herselfladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, she goes to great lengths to ensure he can't be sure. And that former suffragette hunger-striker 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast hersthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith1800901232|title= Grave MatterStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Since Eliza died, since Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the night of the car crash that took rural village where she lived with her lifefamily was happy, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the girl he loves, feeling as though village to offer Hahn a part of him died that night toojob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. But he is desperate Some money changed hands and he cannot live without ElizaHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie Only, Hanh and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able the other girls were not going to help him. Howeverwork in a shop, finding his Aunt Marie leads him they were to discover 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 Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact legs? The ones with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Samthe artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's life in more ways than he bargained forquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaPatrice Lawrence|title= This Mortal CoilNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying extremely hard for some people to produce a vaccine to save humanitylike, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new characters and stronger strains at a frightening pacereaders both. Catarina has lived alone Kicked out of multiple homes and in hiding for the past two yearsschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and has taken by force to work up residence in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from the State and not to trust them an inchson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Set Such a tempestuous personality may be in Americaneed of a comfort blanket, but not an America we would recogniseyou might perhaps think, most and the creation of one such item is part of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkersplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditionsis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. OthersWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, less trusting of the Stateand then force people to give her two days off school, remain in hiding on the surfacewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, hoping the virus will what exactly happens is not reach them for me to say, only to remark how sharp and avoiding anyone who is infectedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingAnn Sei Lin|title= WitchbornRebel Skies|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter a massive dining hall floating in the Elizabethan world sky where soldiers of 1577the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A world of intrigueHowever, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is when a young girl forced man named Himura arrives to flee from tell her home after the devastating death of her Motherthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the only person power to form paper into whatever she had ever loved. Tried and deemed desires – a witch, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at the stake by power sought after all across the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding AlyceEmpire.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes He asks her to London but she's not alone. Endangered and being followedcome with him, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find leave the life of dreary servitude that she is more dangerous than all she ever thought possiblehas known. And AlyceWell, although she doesnsoon Kurara won't yet realise ithave any say in the matter, because the Midori is caught between two strong destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and powerful Queens, one desperate she is forced to steal flee out into the throne and world. She joins Himura aboard the other determined Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to keep it…hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Road to Ever AfterWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires Meet Fitz, a chauffeuryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and they become friendswith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. So farThey were half of a desultory school band, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a book which references several well-loved classic films. But subhuman hum coming from the obvious similarity ends thereearth. Davy, hired to take Miss Flint on Is this connected with one of her final road tripeco-warrior parents saying the end of the 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 truth? Well, is thirteen years old and not when Cassie has not the foggiest idea how to drive a cargone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Tori Bovalino|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Tortot. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a camp chef request for an armyover a hundred 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, with and a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does man Tess hates. As a fish – petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a brilliant way large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of gauging the warfare going on around books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield Her plan is to start work 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=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the enemy Face of the night before they turn Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the tables Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his previous employers brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and defeat themAndrewe's foundling daughter, leaving Tortot on who washed up out of the winning side once moresea one day eleven years ago. But now he's when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not alone – for he .|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has managed been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to also inherit an assistantbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who lives in a barrel the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Emperors' favourite elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and most important gherkins…alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyJonathan Stroud|title= Daughter of the Burning CityThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=GomorrahScarlett McCain is an outlaw, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the land, entertaining wildlands between the crowds with fantastic shows Seven Kingdoms of magicBritain, illusion robbing banks and sleight of handshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the proprietor mythical Free Isles of Gomorrahthe London Lagoon. Together, Villiamthey must brave man-eating wildlife, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in cannibalistic Tainted and all the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the circusFree Isles, Sorina knows that she but will one day become they be any more accepted there than they are in the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cara DelevigneMercedes Helnwein|title= Mirror, MirrorSlingshot|rating= 23
|genre=Teens
|summary= If the news that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss it? Were you living under Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a rock?), all about secret illegitimate daughter of a group of teens who go looking for their friend who disappeared, makes you roll your eyes and say ''well, that sounds man with a bit like Paper Towns''"real" family, don't worry: you're she is used to not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). Itbeing a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a pretty lazy write-offrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, thoughher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about for her life now has a boy in itthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C T L TaylorHuchu|title=The TreatmentLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Drew's brother is once again expelled from schoolHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, and sent away Priya has to a special reform school, Drew doesn't really care. She has enough of her own troubles come to deal terms with. But then one day the fact that she is followed home from school by a mysterious doctor, who claims to have a sinister message from may be in constant pain for the rest of her brother, begging Drew to help him because the school is not a reform schoollife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', and actually all the children there are being brainwashed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Peternelle van Arsdale|title= The Beast is an Animal |rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by the Soul Eaters, online support group where she was the only one talks to see thema bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Alys They talk about their troubles and the help each other orphans are sent out, while also providing an escape to the neighbouring village but this place is not like homejust joke and mess around. In the strange village When Brigid—one of Defaid people are pious, they say that Alysher closest friends—doesn's village must have been in league with t respond to the Beastchat for a while, that they drew the Soul Eaters inPriya becomes concerned. People in Defaid are suspicious, She decides to steal her parents' car and they are particularly suspicious of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seen. Despite itdrive to Brigid's piety and it devotion house to the ways of the Shepherd, Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closer, luring them with their singingcheck up on her. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and But what she does not belong doesn't expect to find there, Alys knows is a werewolf in the danger of basement – and for that werewolf to be the Soul Eaters but girl she is drawn has been talking to themonline for the past few months. As she grows older and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like them? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1683692349
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