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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Ahmed -->[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] ===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br> <!-- Holland -->[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]] ===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Zurcher -->[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]] ===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brown, but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]] ===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the book is about. It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Norris -->[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]] ===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonLeanne Egan|title=Sunflowers in FebruaryLover Birds|rating=34.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of the road, she knows Liverpool from London Lou immediately that something is wrong. Then she sees feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it. A disembodied ghostmisunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her own death, as her friends and family struggle to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed 's definitely because Isabel makes her. With no idea how to move onfeel so cross, Lily starts to despairisn't it? Because Lou is straight, until one night isn't she finally manages to make ? Even though none of her presence known. Sherelationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's always never had a strong bond good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see because fighting with her when no-one else canis fun, and gives her the chance to return to the living world. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= RenegadesWild East|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes Written in verse, this worldis Ronny's story, therea 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 hope that tomorrow might be bettermum who is worried for Ronny''Once the minority in s safety after a world of chaos and disordertragic event, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in driving their opponentsa new town, the leaderless Anarchists undergrounda new school, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range and keep himself out of abilities are now the lawmakers trouble. He listens to music constantly, and leaders has always dreamed of the futurebeing a rapper. But now, in this new school, governing his teacher encourages him to be part of a new peaceful poetry writing workshop group and prosperous society. They are , slowly, Ronny begins to see the heroes of society; the role models young children look up toconnections between rap and poetry, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction power of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting creativity and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from themcrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldJenny Valentine|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5

|summary=In ''Ballad for 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 Mad Girltrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of Hannah Holtand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agosomething terrible and tragic, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannah's ghost. The more she investigatesand now they must work through their grief, the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's deathand their friendship, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agotogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonMax Boucherat|title= The Extinction TrialsLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Storm and Lincoln live We meet Lori on Earthasiathe first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newbabysitter poorly, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her fatherlonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, so she lives in has one of Earthasia's overcrowded sheltersmain intention, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister that is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to log on to Voxminer, the healthcare world-building, critter-collecting game that could save her. Itis a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a meantiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for then she finds something even more spooky. For the Stipulators' trials for a new mission server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the neighbouring continent enter shows signs of Piloriatampering. The aim When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access girl to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=My Sweet Orange TreeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just that sometimesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Zeze, you're too naughtythe answering beat in my heart.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator Rosevear, Zeze – he's a young tykeremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and everyone in his largeplundering the wrecks. Mira, half-Indian family – hecklike her mother before her, everyone is one of the seven who recognises his blonde swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and pale looks in any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the neighbourhood – knows heisland's leader and Mira's skilled at being up father. Desperate to no goodsave him from death, that perhaps he was born Mira makes a bargain with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when wreck survivor who is as charming as he's is secretive and with only five, the precocious brat is forced coordinates to face something that might be the changing of himguide her, once and for all – school. This time she sets off in search of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford secret that lies buried deep in the rent arrears on their current placesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although having downsized as her journey takes her from the garden comes watched streets of foreign islands to feature the titular treeheart of the smuggler's territory, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the new future of her home or and the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonHarry Allen|title= Star by StarChildren of the Sun|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Ra Eun Seo lives in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918, Stella a North Korean town and she is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding housetalented singer. This coincides with a time of great change for the country as women are allowed to vote for the first time. Stella Life is hard and food is determined difficult to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historycome by, so Seo and whilst her age denies her the ability to vote herselffriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she goes looking for tree bark and edible grasses to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker supplement the meagre rations of rice and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast herskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithAlexia Casale|title= Grave MatterSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that took her you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Sam but that's what Ven is a broken soul. He is lost without dealing with after collapsing on stage in the girl he loves, feeling as though middle of a part of him died dance performance that night toowas going to change her life. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. Howevercomes back fighting, finding his Aunt Marie leads him desperate to discover avoid the Milk Manpity stares, which causes Sam in his grieving state and desperate to get back to make a pact with forces he doesnlife that't understands as normal as she can possibly manage. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam Meanwhile there's life a new (cute!) boy in more ways than he bargained forschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaSimon Fox|title= This Mortal CoilDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= A life threatening virus Late one night Graham Blake is spreading through late back from his shift on the United Statesforce, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanityand then suddenly rings Archie, but it seems demanding he fetch something from a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearssecret place, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force to work in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from join him on the State and not to trust them an inchrun. Set in America They get together, but not an America we would recognise, most of barely begin to smell the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting whiff of Southern trains when the Statefather is arrested, remain in hiding leaving Archie on the surfacelate express to Brighton, hoping toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infectedbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingLex Croucher|title= WitchbornGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A world of intrigue In this story, terror Gwen and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mothertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only person she had ever lovedfemale knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Tried and deemed And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a witchboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at creating the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behindsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, Alyce escapes to London but she's not alonewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Endangered and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will they find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alycea way in which they can both truly be themselves, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate or are they destined to steal the throne and the other determined to keep it…live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungNick Brooks|title= The Road to Ever AfterPromise Boys|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeurWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, and we watch three boys find themselves called into the police station as she gradually softens towards him and they become friendssuspects. So far Each, so ''Driving Miss Daisy''seemingly, an apt comparison in has a book which references several well-loved classic filmsgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But the obvious similarity ends there. Davywho killed him, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road tripand why, is thirteen years old and has not if any of the foggiest idea how boys are innocent, will they be able to drive a car. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)1919635017|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Meet Tortot. HeSolomon Klyne isn's t a camp chef for an armybad lad, with a cold heart – so why is he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does running around London committing a fish – and a brilliant way series of gauging robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the warfare going on around himsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The book even starts with him crossing But I'll answer the battlefield to start work first one: for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moregrandmother... But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Daughter of the Burning CityDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a citystandard school, tours the landand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, entertaining so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the crowds with fantastic shows of magicfootball team, illusion and sleight of handtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But As they're all fired up, straining at the proprietor of Gomorrahleash only a single-sex school can form, Villiamthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, believes as he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the circusthat regard lie. He 's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has political ambitioneffectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which he keeps 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 secret from his adopted daughterfashion designer. Growing up Life in the circusrural village where she lived with her family was happy, Sorina knows that she will one day become if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Proprietor village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and take over from her fatherHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. At sixteen Only, she is keen Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to start learning everything she can from Villiamwork 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cara DelevignePatrice Lawrence|title= Mirror, MirrorNeedle|rating= 23

|summary= If Brave. Charlene, the news that Cara Delevigne had written 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her first novel (how did son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you miss it? Were you living under might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a rock?)wonder knitter, all about a group and is making something full of teens who go looking love for their friend who disappearedher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, makes you roll your eyes and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say ''well, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that sounds she is a bit Crafter like Paper Towns''him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, donsoon Kurara won't worry: you're not alone (seriouslyhave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads)and she is forced to flee out into the world. It's She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a pretty lazy writesky-offship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, though, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about it.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorMarcus Sedgwick|title=The TreatmentWrath

|summary=When Drew's brother Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is once again expelled from schoolonly just over, and sent away he should be free to a special reform schooldo what he wants, Drew doesn't really care. She has enough of her own troubles to deal go where he wants and withwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. But then They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one day hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she is followed home from school by could hear a mysterious doctor, who claims to have a sinister message subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her brother, begging Drew to help him because eco-warrior parents saying the end of the school world is not already a reform schooldone 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, and actually all the children there are being brainwashednot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleTori Bovalino|title= The Beast is an Animal Devil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast Working all summer in her boarding school's library is an Animal, but what does the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by the Soul Eaters, she was the only one has to see themdeliver herself. Alys and What makes it worse is the other orphans are sent to man who requested the neighbouring village but this place is not like homebooks: Mr Birch. In the strange village of Defaid people are pious, they say that AlysThe boarding school's village must have been in league with the Beast, that they drew the Soul Eaters in. People in Defaid are suspiciousheadmaster, and they are particularly suspicious of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seenman Tess hates. Despite it's piety As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it devotion to the ways notes on each of the Shepherdbooks, Defaid feels scribbled with the Soul Eaters creeping ever closer, luring them with their singingugliest insults she can think of. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong thereThey're never meant to reach him, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she course. Her plan is drawn to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. As she grows older and the danger grows greaterNo harm done… Or it would be, the dark question grows larger in Alysif someone hadn's mind, is she bad like t delivered them? for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaPhilip Reeve|title= ExodusUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Exodus In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a book whichpeculiar island called Wildsea, though fifteen years oldBritish but way west, strikes some horrifying truths about beyond the world we live in right at this momentScillies. Set in a world ravaged by global warming There are troll people on it, and melting icesea-capswitches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, this is where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the story Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the last inhabitants of an island called WingHidden Lands, his brother Will who set sail lives in London with too much science in search his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of a new life once Wing is sunk under the rising tidesea one day eleven years ago. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thingBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and one which dredges up so many interesting questionshis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon P ClarkKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Not Yet DarkJulia and the Shark|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Philippa and Danny have Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been friends since they were tiny. But now, at fifteen packed off with her parents and into their cat from the unforgiving world of adolescencefamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends in the rugby team and they are full far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the obnoxiouslantern, somewhat sexistwhich is his specialist thing, bravado of while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and she doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them downelusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, well, if she's truthful, will be homesick and alone – until she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by thissuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amy ReedJonathan Stroud|title=The Nowhere GirlsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' Scarlett McCain is another timely novel that aims an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at wander the wildlands between the momentSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. It sees GraceBut then she meets Albert Browne, Erin a dark boy with dark powers and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movementdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the sexist culture at their schoolLondon Lagoon. In the processTogether, they hope must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to get justice for Lucyreach the Free Isles, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three rest of her male peers of gang rape.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>1406394815