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Book cover for review: images shows a large green world set against a black backdrop, the bottom part of the planet disappearing into shadow. The black of space is covered in stylised words of noise, barely visible in a slightly different shade of black. Something with a green and white tail is crossing the space in front of the planet. In the centre, over the top of this, is the title 'Piper at the Gates of Dusk' in white.
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk | YA Book Review

Kim

By Patrick Ness (Walker Books, 2026)

“We did see it, didn’t we?” Max whispers to me now, both of us watching Pop enter a Noise conversation with the Land, which moves faster than anything either of us could follow.

I nod in a way that says, yes, we definitely did.

“You saw it, too,” he says.

I nod again, kind of rolling my eyes. Of course I saw it. I’m sitting here with a broken arm, aren’t I?

“What was it?” I can barely move my hands with the healing going on, but I grimace and sign, A god.

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Book cover for review. Image shows a boy floating in the top right, and a girl floating in the bottom left, looking at one another against a pastel rainbow background. The title in yellow runs between them, reading 'This Boy I Hardly Know'.
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This Boy I Hardly Know | YA Book Review

Kim

By Lisa Heathfield (Andersen Press, May 2026)

‘I’m so tired of holding up my world, Cooper,’ I say quietly.

‘I get that,’ he says.

He looks at me and I know he does. There are so few people who really do. Who know what it’s like to be alone and drowning in a system that wants to pass you to the next person and the next. How tiring it is to keep starting again.

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