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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefMax Boucherat|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We 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. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and 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 her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you and me''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, if you please - has just returned to Strathfearnthe answering beat in my heart. It's 1938 ' Rosevear, a remote and her grandfatherpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Earl of Strathfearnrocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, has recently diedlike her mother before her, leaving a mountain is one of debt behind him. The family's ancestral home has been sold the seven who swim out to meet survey the debt ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the death duties and will soon become Council Watch lays a school. Buttrap to end the wrecking, as they capture the contents of the estate island's leader and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwayMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, there Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is time for Julie as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to spend unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the summer making their goodbyes - watched streets of foreign islands to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family heart of Highlands Travellersthe smuggler's territory, loved by Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the family but hated by future of her home and the authoritiesones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenHarry Allen|authortitle=David OwenChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Life is tough on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope Ra Eun Seo lives in the future. They're already judged by their poverty, their religion, their race. Carving out a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like North Korean town and she is a pipe dreamtalented singer. ButLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, in their various waysso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Siobhan, Keisha, Maida looking for tree bark and Morris are all trying - whether that means making plans edible grasses to get out, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasAlexia Casale|title=The Hate U GiveSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: poverty, drugs, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sixteenyou're having to navigate a life-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mavchanging disability too, but that's daughter who works what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the store'middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. Itdesperate to get back to a life that's where as normal as she can be herself possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and not care about what people think or how people expect just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to act - a freedom that isnnavigate. So even though she can't afforded dance anymore, might she be able to sing her at way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the posh suburban high school where she is one of just force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a handful of black students. Howeversecret place, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-byand join him on the run. And now They get together, it's but barely begin to smell the place where Starr witnesses whiff of Southern trains when the devastatingfather is arrested, fatal shooting of her unarmed friendleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, Khalil. At the hands of toting a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the lives bearer of a whole heap of everyone around herquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamLex Croucher|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago Who knew that Micah Grey what I really needed to read right now was still living the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble familygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, trapped it lifted my spirits in a gilded cage forever hiding her true selfmost delightful way. Since running away, Micah has managed to reinvent himself In this story, first as a circus acrobat, and then as a magician's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love Gwen and friendships that Arthur have helped keep him afloatbeen betrothed since they were tiny, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready much to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growingtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, the Chimaera are returningyou see, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping point. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Hoyle|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Benin love with Bridget (the kingdom's best friend Will goes missingonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Soon after And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school and take an interest creating the subterfuge of falling in him. It turns out both twins have an obsession love with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in when really they are enabling their strange gameown other romantic attachments. But with every new challenge they set himas their impending wedding draws ever closer, he starts to wonder whether will they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cat Clarke|title= Girlhood|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on find a group of friends; Harper, Rowan, Lily and Ama, who are fast approaching the end of term at an elite boarding school way in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends and the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much in common with her. But is Kirsty who she claims to which they can both truly be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Zentner|title=Goodbye Days|rating= 4.5 |genre= Teens|summary= ''Where themselves, or are you guys? Text me back.'' Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simple, impatient text they destined to his best friend. His best friend who is driving and on the way to pick him up at any moment. His best friend who in replying to his text, rams into the back of live a truck instantly killing himself and lie their other two best friends in the car.whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letters to the LostNick Brooks|authortitle=Brigid KemmererPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Juliet When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypethe time of his murder. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit- But who killed him, and-run accidentwhy, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expected. Juliet leaves them at her graveside, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughterif any of the boys are innocent, she would still will they be alive today.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Stargazing for BeginnersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jenny McLachlanKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesnSolomon Klyne isn't quite explain a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space did he learn to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs crack safes? You'll have to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined wait to become get an astronaut answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one day: for his grandmother.. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargravePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Island at the End of EverythingDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary= Set Ant is in the Philippines Year Eleven at the beginning quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the last centuryfootball team, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Islandand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a beautiful place covered single-sex school can form, the talk in lush forests class and surrounded by a blue sea out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that matches the skyregard lie. It He's Ami's home had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and the only place she so has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live on effectively progressed up the edge of the world away from civilisationladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Ami And that's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders mostly because of who are free from the sickness to another island, Amihe's world is torn apart. Banished across been having the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home relationship and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everythingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Clare1800901232|title= Lady MidnightStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the City of Angels rural village where she grew up. She recallslived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, "I so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and potential magic around every corner"Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir Only, classical texts Hanh and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poeother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with mystery intricate embroidery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'beading on the legs? The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin ones with the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma artfully-placed rips and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Firedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It' s quite possible that Hanh and now facing painful decisionsher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryPatrice Lawrence|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta NerdsvilleNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=A lot has happened in Brave. Charlene, the life 'heroine' of our hero Joe since we [[The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. A lot must have happened in the third book in the series tooKicked out of multiple homes and schools, as we start here she's fostering with him a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in a very new situation. Heher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Londonneed of a comfort blanket, not you might perhaps think, and the Midlands town creation of his upbringingone such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and three is making something full of his flat-mates love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and buddies are a band about then force people to be signed by a major labelgive her two days off school, with him when she shouts someone down as their ostensible managerexpletively ignorant. And he's got a newthen... well, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this what exactly happens is a teen diary book full of the comedy of embarrassmentnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and nothing pointy those knitting needles can ever be expected to go his way…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Ann Sei Lin|title=See How They Lie Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae Kurara has only vague memories of spent her entire life before her dadas a servant on the Midori, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine Empire come to drink and perfectly balanced organic diet are normalmake merry between their conquests. The Creek's patients However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires teens a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with psychological problems – might find it unnerving him, to be trapped in leave the middle life of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's lucky. Or t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she does until a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's family. Mae starts is forced to wonder what else they might have lied aboutflee out into the world. Soon Mae She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerousto hunt down shikigami, and potentially deadly, consequences.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelMarcus Sedgwick|title=Every Hiddden ThingWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Three things stir Samuel's teenaged heartMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Duty to his father Lockdown is oneonly just over, and another is admiration for the man's career as a dinosaur hunter he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and aspiration with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow in his tracksbest friend, Cassie. Dad has never been They were half of a professor as suchdesultory school band, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a pioneer in subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the field end of finding fossils. And the third thingworld is already a done deal? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still finds enough in her to arouse things. But thatIs it some spooky new kind of music she's where dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the trouble liestruth? Well, for Rachelnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's father and his are confirmed enemies and rivalst.. And as luck would have it, they're all four headed to the same remote, outlawish region in search of notable remains. How can they be loyal to the science, and to their families, ''and'' to their hearts?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanTori Bovalino|title=The Space BetweenDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The Space Betweenboarding school'' tells the story of Beths headmaster, over the course of and a yearman Tess hates. We see Beth dealing with As a petty act of revenge for making her mental illnessfind and deliver such a large request, locked away in her ownTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, personal 'safe' world where she feels scribbled with the ugliest insults she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolatedthink of. Mouse the dog, howeverThey're never meant to reach him, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into course. Her plan is to get her life there comesanger out like this, alsoand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love to Bethif someone hadn's worldt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=W S MarkendalePhilip Reeve|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall Utterly Dark and the army seems powerless to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head Face of the round table, no less: King Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen|title=The NestDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Steven can narrate In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this book to usstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but he can hardly ever mention way west, beyond the name of his newborn baby brotherScillies. That's not down to a fault with StevenThere are troll people on it, although there are many of those – obsessive handand sea-washingwitches, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with and legends of the new addition Dark family that has to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying keep watch for a new child so late in lifemagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but whatever where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attentionWatcher, Andrewe, even if the child can more or less live in the family home. But hope seems who has to be shining a light into Steven keep notes of activity from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his dreamshead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, from within a pleasantand Andrewe's foundling daughter, light-filled haven, with full knowledge who washed up out of the family's troubles and an offer of a way outsea one day eleven years ago. ObviouslyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, worried for the happiness of both his family, sullen brother and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to his curious ward are thrust into the offer world of help…protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and celebrates their achievements. There are women cat from the ancient world and women working todayfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Each Here be Vikings, that kind of them Scottish island. Dad is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her achievementscareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work And Julia, well, she will be homesick and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americaalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardJonathan Stroud|title= King's CageThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''He caught me in a prince's trap. And now I'm in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment in the Red Queen seriesScarlett McCain is an outlaw, picks up right after rejecting the final events draconian conformity of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone the Surviving Towns and powerless without her lightning. At Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the mercy Seven Kingdoms of the Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy who wears the crownwith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Mare is haunted by they plan to flee to the consequences mythical Free Isles of her past decisionsthe London Lagoon. Tortured and weakTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Mare has a front seat to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold the cannibalistic Tainted and destroy all that she believes in. Being broken and beatenthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Mare but will never they be any more accepted there than they are in the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another dayrest of Britain? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardMercedes Helnwein|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlSlingshot|rating= 53|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When Jim's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy she is used to attend. Jim doesnnot being a priority in people't like schools lives. He doesn't like Buffers. And you knowBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion her simple existence is mutualchanged for good. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first dayNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worsethat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma FowlerT L Huchu|title= MoondustThe Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''Lunar Inc. Ropa Moyo is lying a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to us. It's been lying to us take messages from the moment lumite power was discovered.'' After the dark days dead of future Earth, where an energy crisis has led to chaos, lumite power has become the only solution Edinburgh for peacetheir living relatives. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory Ever since she dropped out of the reactor explosion at Andrianneschool, ten years ago, is still fresh in the publicshe's mind. FALLbeen using it to support not only herself, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government but her younger sister and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Incher aging grandmother. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Daykin|title=Fish Boy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Billy is struggling at school. HeHowever, there's being picked on by an evil stalking the school bully and he's starting to feel very alone. His mum is sickruined streets of Edinburgh, although nobody seems to know whattargeting the city's wrong with herchildren. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't workSoon, so Billy's dad Ropa is working extra hours to try to keep pulled into the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend search for himself. His only escape is in watching his favourite, David Attenborough, or in swimming in the sea. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined with the entrance of a new missing boy at school, starts to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Cheng|title=See You in the Cosmos|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just eleven, but is sure he has the responsibility age request of a thirteen year oldhis dead mother. He'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan on She will end up discovering an Amtrak train to the desert to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – occult library and all without realise that the help world of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato mother, magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript of verbal essays missing children and conversations he has made bring an end to put in his rocket to send to the starsthis evil, so aliens can learn about life on earth in 2017. The fact that we're able to find out what's on or will it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'', but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyKristen O'Neal|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover Lycanthropy and BeyondOther Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Swindells
|title=Knife Edge
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being a knife in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lesson. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quick. Knives can be quick to find, are quick to whip out, and quick to get the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderly, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Mary G Thompson
|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back to her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old and in the years of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee
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{{newreview
|author=Angie Stanton
|title=Waking in Time
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Abbi Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has had a hard year. Her beloved grandmother died and, before the grief really had a chance to settle, Abbi has left come to terms with the safety and security of home to start college fact that she may be in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left constant pain for the two most important people in rest of her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But itShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's hard to forget and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mind. And then, one morning, an online support group where she wakes in her dorm room talks to find herself transported back in time to 1983a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. And it won't be the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further They talk about their troubles and further back in timehelp each other out, she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards while also providing an escape to just joke and his journey began in 1927mess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Garber|title=Caraval|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all When Brigid—one of her life: closest friends—doesn't respond to visit the chat for a Caravalwhile, Priya becomes concerned. These interactive events put on by magician She decides to steal her parents' car and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusive. Itdrive to Brigid's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and house to check up on her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from their sadistic father But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and prison-like island home for that werewolf to be the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences girl she has been talking to online for the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seemspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1683692349
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