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{{Frontpage|classauthor=Ashley Hickson-"wikitable" cellpaddingLovence|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 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 creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary="15"''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the road, she knows immediately Who knew that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin what I really needed to describe read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A disembodied ghost In this story, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own deathGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, as her friends and family struggle much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fallout from the hitkingdom's only female knight) -and-run something that killed Art discovers from herprivate diaries. With no idea how to move on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Lily starts to despaircreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's always had But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else way in which they canboth truly be themselves, and gives her the chance to return or are they destined to the living world. Lily has live a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerNick Brooks|title= RenegadesPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once When the minority in a world principal (headmaster) of chaos and disorderUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Renegades fought for freedom and justicepolice station as suspects. Victorious in driving their opponents Each, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundseemingly, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range has a grudge of abilities are now some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the lawmakers and leaders time of the futurehis murder. But who killed him, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up towhy, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction if any of Anarchists that hide in the darknessboys are innocent, plotting and planning until will they are be able to get back what was stolen from them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
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|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn''Ballad for t a Mad Girl''bad lad, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery so why is he running around London committing a series of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's ghostll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. The more she investigates, But I'll answer the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agofirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos Patrick Ness and Alison Entrekin Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (translatorwithin which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt)has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=My Sweet Orange TreeNeedle
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|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'It's just that sometimesof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Zeze, you're too naughtycharacters and readers both.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorKicked out of multiple homes and schools, Zeze – heshe's fostering with a young tykepleasant yoga tutor, and everyone in his largeAnnie, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks has taken up residence in the neighbourhood – knows her son Blake's old room while he's skilled at being up to no gooduni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, that you might perhaps he was born with a little think, and the creation of one such item is part of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to readplot here, even when he's only fiveas Charlene is a wonder knitter, the precocious brat and is forced to face making something that might be the changing full of him, once and love for all her younger sister – schoola younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. This time of change is also featuring We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a move of homestore detective, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes and then force people to feature the titular treegive her two days off school, which almost works when she shouts someone down as a confessional cum best friendexpletively ignorant. And then... Whether either the new home or the school will get well, what exactly happens is not for me to change Zezesay, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonAnn Sei Lin|title= Star by StarRebel Skies|rating= 3.5
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|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by Kurara has spent her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from entire life as a servant on the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe Midori, a massive dining hall floating in November 1918the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Stella when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is sent a Crafter like him, someone with the power to live with her estranged aunt who runs form paper into whatever she desires – a boarding housepower sought after all across the Empire. This coincides He asks her to come with a time him, to leave the life of great change for dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the country Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as women are allowed a shikigami, and she is forced to vote for flee out into the first timeworld. Stella She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historyhunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and whilst her age denies her the ability he should be free to vote herselfdo what he wants, she goes to great lengths go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood his best friend , Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her mother eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is able to cast hersalready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{Frontpage<!-- Dawson -->|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three*[[image:Dawson_Grave|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=httpsWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books://wwwMr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course.amazonHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.coNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title==[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson Utterly Dark and Alex T Smith]]=the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza diedIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, since beyond the night Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the car crash Dark family that took her lifehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Sam is a broken soulwhere no ship dare sail. He is lost without The current Darks are the girl he lovesWatcher, feeling as though a part Andrewe, who has to keep notes of him died that night activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with toomuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But he is desperate when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and he cannot live without Elizahis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie |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 been packed off with her peculiar healing powers parents and wonders if she might their cat from the family home in SW England to be able to help himlighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. However Here be Vikings, finding his Aunt Marie leads him that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to discover be automating the Milk Manlantern, which causes Sam is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his grieving state algae behind to make a pact with forces he doesn't understandhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1510107789}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaJonathan Stroud|title= This Mortal CoilThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
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|summary= A life threatening virus Scarlett McCain is spreading through an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the United StatesSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, an already broken country a dark boy with dark powers and a Government that many do not trustdarker past. The top scientists are frantically trying With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to produce a vaccine flee to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pacemythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State cannibalistic Tainted and taken by force to work in all the national laboratories. His last message horrors of post-apocalyptic society to her was to hide from reach the State and not to trust them an inch. Set in AmericaFree Isles, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens will they be any more accepted there than they are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditionsthe rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Others, less trusting As a secret illegitimate daughter of the Statea man with a "real" family, remain she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in hiding on the surfaceher class with her slingshot, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who her simple existence is infectedchanged 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>152905818X
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