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Name: Sharon Bolton
01 May 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
My first thought on starting this novel was how much my KS4 Book Club from my last school would have loved this - they were always comparing star signs, as if this was a true predictor of the future. This story has so much more behind it; Leah's brother, Aiden, is experiencing bullying at scho...
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Friends Like These
Name: Morgan Harkin
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Set in the summer of 1983, an ambitious intern, Beth, sets out in New York - alone, and unaware of some aspects of the New York way of life. With a place to stay in the sweltering heat in an apartment infested with cockroaches, a keen Beth befriends an outgoing, chaotic Edie. Whilst all seems...
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Fake
Name: Jan Blagden
01 May 2022;Genre: Dystopian
Fake is Ele Fountain's latest title aimed at the middle grade reader. This story is set in a future that appears to be not too distant from our own. There is much in the lifestyles of the various characters that will be relatable to readers. It is, however, not just another boarding school sce...
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Our Sister, Again
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 May 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
Desperate to heal the family after her sister, Flora's, death, Isla signs her mother up for grief counselling sessions. The sessions turn out to be a front for a pioneering AI company called Second Chance. Using the digital footprint of the recently deceased and information obtained from exhau...
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Blood to Poison
Name: Eileen Armstrong
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
17-year-old Savannah is angry, very angry. She's angry at the hundreds of injustices of everyday life in post-Apartheid South Africa. She's angry at the racial injustice and violence against women which surrounds her, at being cat-called in the street, at being treated differently from white m...
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About This Boy
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
From award winning Rudimental band founder member Leon Rolle (Locksmith) come a reflective book of personal stories and advice for teens everywhere to help them be the best they can. Over 12 easy-to-read chapters, Leon takes us on a journey through his teens and early twenties, sharing key sto...
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Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
"Breathe. Just breathe", is the starting advice in Queer Up by Alexis Caught, an incredible, uplifting and honest book offering positive advice and information to LGBTQ+ teens and allies, who may have questions about their identity. Chapter themes include looking at coming out...
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Ready Or Not
Name: Clare Wilkins
22 April 2022;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Millie adores the shared summers with family and friends at Creek House. Whilst the adults reminisce over their youth, the children have the run of the idyllic estate. But as the children become teenagers, tensions and differences emerge and the youngest, Millie, realises that the carefree sum...
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Blood To Poison
Name: Tanja Jennings
22 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
South African born fantasy YA author Mary Watson, known for her bewitching ‘Wren’ books, returns to her Cape Town roots for her latest thriller. Reminiscent of Tracy Deonn’s ‘Legendborn’ with its blood magic, heady sense of place, colloquial language, generational pain, interwoven mythology an...
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Read Between the Lies
Name: Sharon Bolton
22 April 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Imagine having to go live with your dad and his new girlfriend, miles away from the rest of your family, and then her son is released from the Young Offenders Institution he has spent time in. Ryan is dealing with his mum and dad's divorce and a move to London. Then when Tommy is released, he...
