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Different for Boys
- Patrick Ness, Tea Bendix
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781529509496
- Published: 02-03-2023
A poignant and moving LGBTQ+ story that explores sexuality and masculinity with a touch of humour, by twice Carnegie Medal-winner and bestselling author Patrick Ness. Ant Stevenson has many questions, like when did he stop being a virgin? Are there degrees of virginity? And is it differ...

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Ellie Pillai is (Almost) in Love
- Christine Pillainayagam
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571367023
- Published: 02-03-2023
Everyone's favourite confused heroine Ellie Pillai is back in the perfect summer romance! Note to self: what is falling in love, and am I really sure I want to do it? Ever since Ellie and Ash got together, Ellie Pillai has been discovering kissing and . . . questions . . . so . . . man...

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The Half-Life of Love
- Brianna Bourne
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9780702314186
- Published: 02-03-2023
It comes as a twinge, a signal that you've reached the exact half point of your life... Flint knows he will die at 16 so he's never really tried to live. With six weeks left, he returns to his hometown with his family, determined to go quietly. Science-obsessed September interns at the...

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Glorious Poison
- Kat Dunn
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781789543742
- Published: 02-03-2023
The daring and dramatic conclusion to Kat Dunn's epic C18th French Revolution YA trilogy 'with lashings of lust, love, sacrifice, betrayal and horror'. Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L'Aubespine plots a coup that will consign the...

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Catfish Rolling
- Clara Kumagai
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781803288048
- Published: 02-03-2023
A dazzling debut. Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation. There's a catfish under the islands of Japan and when it rolls the land rises and falls. Sora hates the catfish whose rolling cause...

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Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors, Technicians, Scientists and Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the World, and How You Can Join Them
- Dr. Shini Somara, Manual Sumberac, Adam Allsuch Boardman
- What on Earth Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781804660270
- Published: 02-03-2023
Engineers are the superheroes of the real world. They use their problem-solving skills to face down the biggest challenges we have, from creating clean energy to designing prosthetic limbs, from eliminating food shortages to programming AI to exploring the surface of Mars. In this book you'll...

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Wild Song
- Candy Gourlay
- David Fickling Books
- ISBN13: 9781788452076
- Published: 02-03-2023
The year is 1904. Luki has lived a tribal life in the mountains of the Philippines. Now she's growing up, she is expected to become a wife and a mother, but Luki isn't ready to give up her dream to become a warrior.When her tribe are offered a journey to America to be part of the St. Louis Wor...

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Boy Like Me
- Simon James Green
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9780702313653
- Published: 02-03-2023
In the margins of a book's pages, sparks fly as a teenage romance begins. But in this time and place, sparks like these can only ignite trouble. It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in UK schools. When a kind librarian leads Jamie to a disguised nove...

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