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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonMax Boucherat|title=The Goldfish BoyLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Matthew has OCDWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Not What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that he knows is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's what it isworld. He just likes things cleanBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, he really hates germs, or going outsideand then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he feels safest upstairs her safe place in his room and the front bedroomgame has been doctored – well, where he is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can control hear the song of the dirtsea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and where he can watch everything that's going on outsidepartially forgotten island, making notes survives on his neighbours' activitiesluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. When a little boyMira, Teddylike her mother before her, from next door goes missing is one day, it turns of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that Matthew was lies within. But when the last person Council Watch lays a trap to see end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with all only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of his neighbours a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to try and uncover the truth heart of what happened the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to Teddysave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanHarry Allen|title=We Come ApartChildren of the Sun

|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the story of Ra Eun Seo lives in a burgeoning friendship North Korean town and romance between Jess she is a talented singer. Life is hard and Nicu. Both have problems food is difficult to deal with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up come by, so Seo and her mother. Nicu is a Romanian immigrant friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the UK meagre rations of rice and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns kimchi at home. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Nicu?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Alexia Casale|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summerIt's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sheyou's about re having to start filming navigate a blockbuster film with internationally famous colife-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… Nochanging disability too, definitely … especially when said boy of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series but that's filming what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in Transylvaniathe middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. And But she comes back fighting, desperate to make matters worseavoid the pity stares, shooting and desperate to get back to a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume life that looks like 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a sacknew (cute!) isnboy in school, 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 quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookSimon Fox|authortitle=Lara AveryDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She Late one night Graham Blake is going to win late back from his shift on the national debating competitionforce, go to college in New York and become then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this that it almost feels ordainedsecret place, and join him on the run. And she has worked for it too They get together, sacrificing relationships and friendships in but barely begin to smell the service whiff of ambition. You can imagineSouthern trains when the father is arrested, thenleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, that Sammie views toting a diagnosis tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in the road. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her waywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanLex Croucher|title=TiltGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means Who knew that she hasn't laid down any new memories since she what I really needed to read right now was ten years old and had a brain tumour removedgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She's now seventeen In this story, Gwen and can remember life before Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the tumour but cankingdom't hold on to anything s only female knight) - something that happened after that for more than an hour or twoArt discovers from her private diaries. She gets by with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the help subterfuge of her very protective parents and her best friend Paige, and from the endless notes she writes to herself that tell her who she is, what's wrong falling in love with hereach other, and what's been happening in her lifewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Flora has But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''way in which they can both truly be brave''.themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlNick Brooks|authortitle=Len VlahosPromise Boys

|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumourWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It's inoperable and he Each, seemingly, has only a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's gonegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Jared decides to auction himself - and each could have been there at the rest time of his lifemurder. But who killed him, his deathand why, everything - on eBay for a reserve price and if any of one million dollars. Unsurprisinglythe boys are innocent, eBay cancels the auction as against will they be able to clear their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come to the attention of a reality TV producer...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Laird1919635017|title=Welcome to Nowhere|rating=5|genre= Teens|summary= Omar is a twelve-year-old boy living in Bosra, Syria. He works two small jobs before and after school. He prefers the jobs to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur with a network of businesses to rule over. He's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has a clever sister who wants A Thief to be a teacher, and a clever brother who few realise is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can't see past his speech impediment. He has a father who works for the government, a mother who worries too much, Catch a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Sara Barnard|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderKitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. It's all rather tricky, as you can imagine, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ and so Steffi is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhys, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign language, hence the introduction. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can't hear and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism and severe anxiety, often can't talk.And they fall into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's a rocky road...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Dana Scully can be added to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key years. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to a regular, secular school elsewhere, but echoes of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new home. But it's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed to be precognitive, and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enough, but school children are dying in allegedly drug-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are the victims – and Dana is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out the cause and effect here could fill an X-File, but of course we're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigations...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kami Garcia|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos|rating=4

|summary=Give Solomon Klyne isn't a person bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book and you might change their life. That is the philosophy series of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to a best schoolmate. He may well appear wait to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears that the truth get an answer to his wife's death, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novelsecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in ll answer the search first one: for his own baby sistergrandmother... But before he can settle back with his new read, and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Mind The Gap Different for Boys

|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad diesAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, he stops caring and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about anything. Indeedgeography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the his desk is one person on of four with both his best buddy from the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly football team, and not just for himtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Mikey As they's best mate also ends re all fired up , straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in a pool of bloodclass and out often turns to sex. But that Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't matter because know what his score is, where his friend has already lost something more importantachievements in that regard lie. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find had a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on casual relationship, a secret one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extractfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', or a YouTube clip – something but whether that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voiceset in stone, he can't be sure. Mikey And that's mostly because of who he's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David 1800901232|title=The Liar's Handbook Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that he's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill fashion designer. Life in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendrural village where she lived with her family was happy, Jasonif not prosperous, tellsso when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Jason is a total fake Some money changed hands and River is Hanh was on a crusade the mini-bus to expose himHanoi. However Only, River's investigation doesn't Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work out as plannedin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the police) but will anyone believe himlegs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk> 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanPatrice Lawrence|title=CharismaNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Charismatic Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is exactly what Aislyn was notextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. She was shy Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, to the extent that she panicked when she was 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in large crowdsher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. This shyness clearly affected herSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and at the beginning creation of one such item is part of the book it showed how much plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of an impact it would have on love for her future had it been left untreatedyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Her best friend, EvieWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways then force people to help give hertwo days off school, but to no availwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Sowell, naturally, when Aislyn what exactly happens is offered Charismanot for me to say, an underground drug with a guarantee only to bring her out of her shell, she accepts itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyAnn Sei Lin|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Rebel Skies

|summary=Juniper 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 James are best friends, but make merry between their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyconquests. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicHowever,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having when a close friend who can make decisions for man named Himura arrives to tell her and speak in her behalf that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her comfort blanket. So for nowto come with him, it's James and Juniper against to leave the worldlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, it would be, if James hadnsoon Kurara won't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guiltyhave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She was joins Himura aboard the last person Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to see James alive hunt down shikigami, and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside whole world.of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Wrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and James are best friendshe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but their friendship is more intense than mosthe cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyCassie. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicThey were half of a desultory school band,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a close friend who can make decisions for subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her and speak in her behalf eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is her comfort blanket. So for now, already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's James and Juniper against dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the world. truth? Well, it would be, if James hadnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyTori Bovalino|title=No VirginThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=This book, although rather short, managed Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to put its message across clearly. I was interested to read this, as it is do — especially when she gets a request for over a theme hundred books that I had not read before in a bookshe has to deliver herself. I found What makes it very difficult to read at times, but I always found myself turning worse is the next page a minute after man who requested the lastbooks: Mr Birch. I was quite nervous to read thisThe boarding school's headmaster, but after I had finishedand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it Tess sticks post- it showed me notes on each of the books, scribbled with the mind-set ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of the main character after course. Her plan is to get her experience. I found anger out like this an interesting , and unique bookthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElsePhilip Reeve|authortitle=A F Harrold Utterly Dark and Levi Pinfoldthe Face of the Deep

|summary=If you were being stalked by In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the school bully Scillies. There are troll people on it, and his two sidekickssea-witches, and if a kindly soul rescued you legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from them in even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the parkWatcher, you'd be gratefulAndrewe, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful when Nick rescues her who has to keep notes of activity from Neil Noble and the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his acolytes Rob head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and RoyAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and smelly at school - is not a person you'd want to be associated with. So Frank intends to say thanks and get his curious ward are thrust into the heck out world of Nick's house as quickly as she can..protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Nicola YoonJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Natasha is a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the effective analysis of it. In fact, she wants family home in SW England to become be lighthousekeepers for a data analyst and help make summer, in the world a better place through far NE of the evidence-based policies Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that will flow from itkind of Scottish island. But this ambition Dad is looking less likely now. Because Natasha going to be automating the lantern, which is an undocumented immigrant his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to New York, hunt the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless fatherelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, and unless there's a miraclewell, Natasha she will be deported back to Jamaica in just twelve hourshomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoJonathan Stroud|title= Crooked Kingdom|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''They don't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've done, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked the wrong damn fight.'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, the first book in the duology, you should read it as soon as possible, buy it or borrow it before anything else The Outlaws Scarlett and then read Crooked Kingdom. Trust me, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably clever, with diverse characters and a brilliant heist plot, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Allie Esiri|title= A Poem for Every Night of the YearBrowne

|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the currents draconian conformity of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be found in ''Tales of wander the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about wildlands between the peculiar world - a place familiar to many Seven Kingdoms of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative wayBritain, robbing banks and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' Stone|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip shooting other outlaws to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-cruncherskeep herself alive. But he goes along anywaythen she meets Albert Browne, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - a dark boy with dark powers and frighteninga darker past. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead With mysterious militiamen hunting them to hidden treasure. And it might well dodown, but the code will also lead them they plan to something much more dangerous...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Hypnotist|author=Laurence Anholt|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pip's parents died in a traffic accident and he has been living in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given flee to him by his schoolteacher mother. That's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory the mythical Free Isles of his own father telling him of his own great expectationsthe London Lagoon. It's thanks to his ability to read that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, soldTogether, actually they must brave man- of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wifeeating wildlife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Clover Moon|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory cannibalistic Tainted and all the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink an ale or two after work, spending money the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy child. Father married again horrors of post- apocalyptic society to Mildred, a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if reach the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's CloverFree Isles, rather but will they be any more accepted there than Mildred, who takes care they are in the rest of them.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Saint DeathMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Anapra is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a slum just outside the Mexican city secret illegitimate daughter of Juarez, right on the border a man with the United States. People scrape a living working at one or more of the American factories"real" family, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselves. This she is where used to not being a priority in people come to try and find their own way into the US's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, or pay people traffickers to do it her simple existence is changed for themgood. It's also No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side of the drug cartelsboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreview|title=Haunt MeFrontpage|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes of anxiety, bullying and self-harm in this beyond the grave love story, which at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through them. Cute and enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer NivenT L Huchu|title=Holding Up the Universe|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and she didn't stop until she almost killed herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she is finally ready to return to school after almost five years out. Libby is determined to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtless, superficial, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack is a nervous ticking time bomb. Every day is a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any The Library of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth FloorDead

|summary= The future's brightRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the futuredead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's TALLbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. In 2118, New YorkHowever, life centres around The Tower. Itthere's 1000 stories tallan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, takes up most of targeting the islandcity's children. Soon, and Ropa is now home to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shops, restaurants and gyms. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within pulled into the tower is search for a proxy for who you are and how successful you, or missing boy at least your parents, have becomethe request of his dead mother. Higher floors trump lower floors, She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the pinnacle world of magic is that 1000th floor penthousefar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, owned by Avery and or will it claim her family.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenKristen O'Neal|title=Word Nerd Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd – clever and geeky Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with no friends and appalling dress sensethe fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. HoweverShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to add to his problemsa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, he's while also got a serious nut allergy providing an escape to just joke and a slightly insane overprotective mothermess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the school bullies almost kill him by putting chat for a peanut in his sandwichwhile, Ambrose is pulled out of school and educated at homePriya becomes concerned. Lonely She decides to steal her parents' car and bored, life is not looking good for Ambrose until he meets his neighbourdrive to Brigid's grown house to check up son, Cosmos, who has just been released from prisonon her. Outwardly But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the two have nothing in common other than a love of Scrabble but, as we soon discover, this turns out basement – and for that werewolf to be enough the girl she has been talking to form an unlikely friendship that helps them bothonline for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>1683692349