Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 is Lil Chase's second book, documenting the life of Maya Andrews. Maya has moved schools and, after being bullied at the last one, is really hoping that she can come across differently at her new school. She is desperate to be a cool girl despite being branded a freak and a weirdo and her mum is more than willing to help Maya be cool.

When Maya is assigned locker number 62 upon her arrival at the school, she soon discovers that it's the "dumping ground" of sorts for everybody's secrets. Ever since the locker's previous owner, Hillary Randle, disappeared 13 years ago, students have posted their deepest, darkest secrets in there. And now, Maya owns all of them. With the secrets under her belt, Maya is the most powerful girl in the school and she wants more than anything to be popular. It doesn't help that her first friend at the school is the resident 24/7 goth.

Being a very nosy person with a thirst for knowledge, I'm a sucker for a book in which the main theme is the discovery of secrets. It's not disappointing in that respect - there are of course plenty of secrets, as there should be. The book is fairly fatuous, what with Maya's all-consuming desire to be popular.

I found it fairly annoying when Maya made obviously poor decisions, especially knowing what she knew about the people she wanted to befriend. I suppose it's a warning against wanting what you can't and shouldn't have - Maya was prepared to shun her friends for coolness (and the perfect boy) which can only end badly.

I decided that perhaps the book was aimed at slightly younger readers than me, or I was expecting too much as I found the book to be very predictable. By halfway through, I had figured out what was going to happen and my predictions were spot on. That's not to say that it's not a good book, just not one to challenge.

Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 is a good read and pleasantly short at around 280 pages. I would recommend it to girls aged 10 to 15 because at the heart of it, it is a book about teen love and friendship, with a bit of juicy gossip thrown in.

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