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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyMax Boucherat|title= Like Other GirlsThe 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?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Like Other Girls is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a story about a girl called Laurenremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She is not like other girlsMira, though she does sometimes like other girls. For oneher mother before her, her mum is one of the headmistress of her school, for two, she doesn't fit in seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a cliquetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and for three, her boyfriend thinks sheMira's madfather. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a revelation wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of someone close a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her and when something enormous happens father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to Laurenthe heart of the smuggler's territory, she has no one she can turn Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to, or so save the future of her home and the ones she believesholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookHarry Allen|authortitle=Anthony McGowanChildren of the Sun

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=When Nicky Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by she is a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rooktalented singer.Kenny Life is convinced that a good dollop of love hard and affection food is all that's needed difficult to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any casecome by, Nicky has other things to worry aboutso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, like avoiding the bully at school looking for tree bark and finding a way to talk edible grasses to supplement the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny meagre rations of rice and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping handkimchi at home. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart FosterAlexia Casale|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as Sing if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isnyou Can't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersDance|rating=4.5

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itIt's been her stephard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxchanging disability too, but Alenathat's family what Ven is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions dealing with after collapsing on stage in London, triggered by the middle of a series of bombings, threaten dance performance that was going to spill over and shatter the stability of the only family Alena has ever knownchange her life. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking But she comes back into the pastfighting, at desperate to avoid the life of activism that her mother ledpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her brother has always been suspiciously secretive aboutmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, in and just the hope day to day traumas of finding some answersall 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>1783445246</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashSimon Fox|title=Honor GirlDeadlock

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being a sleep-walkerforce, and ignore the fact she's then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a different state to every other girl aroundsecret place, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of a sudden become an ace shot join him on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performancerun. But those aren't enough for Maggie They get together, but barely begin to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, smell the whiff of Southern trains when the bigger problem father is something else – arrested, leaving Archie on the fact that she seems late express to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campersBrighton, there toting a tin his father was determined to look after keep away from his colleagues, and the welfare bearer of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusLex Croucher|title= One of Us Is LyingGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 54

|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little LiarsWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom?' Sign me up But honestly, pleaseit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. But In this YA mystery is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twistystory, complexGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and at several points I began much to wonder if their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the final reveal would be kingdom's only female knight) - something that everyone was Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the murderersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleNick Brooks|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldPromise Boys|rating= 54|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey andWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, quite by accidentseemingly, embarks on has a journey to become a herogrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging But who killed him, fast-pacedand why, hip and extremely cool. What would a person be like if any of the boys are innocent, will they had the proportional strength and agility of a squirrelbe able to clear their names? Wonder no more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ron Butlin1919635017|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this Solomon Klyne isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult booka bad lad, nor so why is it he running around London committing a gloomy book about young people who canseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision ll have to wait to simply sail away into the sunset, get an answer to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adultssecond question because I avoid spoilers. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at But I'll answer the timefirst one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Teri TerryDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=It's not Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die 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 football team, and she dies two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie leash only a single- Calista - disappeared more than a year agosex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Her brother Kai Which is still looking confusing for herAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, hopeful where his achievements in that she will be found alive regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and well. But Callie isnso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't alive and wellbe sure. She And that's mostly because of who he's been taken to a secretive medical facility on having the island of Shetland, experimented on, relationship and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formsex with. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1800901232|title=Passing for WhiteStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatan illegal garment factory. Only this wasn't a white womanYou know those jeans you really wanted: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaIt's master from taking sexual advantage of quite possible that Hanh and her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Bali RaiNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic booksBrave. He also dreams Charlene, the 'heroine' of being 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 superhero pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and saving the day has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while simultaneously winning he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heart creation of one such item is part of the girl (Freya being the girlplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, hopefully). Batman and is his favourite superhero. But Calmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeallowed contact with no more. Because Cal is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a bit of a geek store detective, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuthen force people to give her two days off school, who makes him complete homework assignments which when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then sells on to lazy classmates. Still.. well, it's what exactly happens is not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overturespointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAnn Sei Lin|title= ReleaseRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4

|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of the Jan'TepEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, powerful mages someone with the ability power to draw on form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the seven magicsEmpire. Then meet KellenHe asks her to come with him, who despite being to leave the son of one life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the most formidable mages in matter, because the clanMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, has no magical ability whatsoeverand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Karen GregoryWrath

|summary=Hedda Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is 20 weeks pregnantonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with oneof her eco-night stand, so there's no father on warrior parents saying the end of the scene. Sheworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's 17. She's in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grip of an eating disorder and truth? Well, not when Cassie has been for yearsgone missing he can't. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because her relationship with her parents has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation is dire.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefTori Bovalino|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to you and me, if you please - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has just returned to Strathfearndeliver herself. It's 1938 and her grandfather, What makes it worse is the man who requested the Earl of Strathfearn, has recently died, leaving a mountain of debt behind himbooks: Mr Birch. The familyboarding school's ancestral home has been sold to meet the debt headmaster, and the death duties and will soon become a schoolman Tess hates. But, as the contents As a petty act of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there is time revenge for Julie and making her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape find and to friends, including the McEwans, deliver such a family of Highlands Travellerslarge request, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Fallen Children|author=David Owen|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Life is tough Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope in books, scribbled with the futureugliest insults she can think of. They're already judged by their povertynever meant to reach him, their religion, their raceof course. Carving Her plan is to get her anger out a prosperous future from like this inauspicious place seems like a pipe dream. But, in their various ways, Siobhan, Keisha, Maida and Morris are then take them all trying - whether that means making plans to get outoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasPhilip Reeve|title=The Hate U GiveUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Garden Heights In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: poverty, drugspeculiar island called Wildsea, shootingsBritish but way west, it ticks all beyond the ghetto stereotypesScillies. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most There are troll people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store'on it, Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself sea-witches, and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - a freedom legends of the Dark family that isn't afforded has to her at keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the posh suburban high school where she is one Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of just a handful of black students. Howeveractivity from the Hidden Lands, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in a drive-by. And nowhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, itand Andrewe's the place where Starr witnesses the devastatingfoundling daughter, fatal shooting who washed up out of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officersea one day eleven years ago. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the lives world of everyone around herprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living packed off with her parents and their cat from the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble family, trapped home in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed SW England to reinvent himself, first as be lighthousekeepers for a circus acrobatsummer, and then as a magician's apprenticein the far NE of the Scottish islands. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships Here be Vikings, that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, be automating the Chimaera are returninglantern, and Ellada which is about his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to reach a violent tipping pointhunt the elusive Greenland shark. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Hoyle|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon And Julia, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon afterwell, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school she will be homesick and take an interest in himalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cat ClarkeJonathan Stroud|title= GirlhoodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me backScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.'' Ending three lives But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends dark powers and a simpledarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, impatient text they plan to flee to his best friendthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. His best friend who is driving Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and on all the way horrors of post-apocalyptic society to pick him up at reach the Free Isles, but will they be any moment. His best friend who more accepted there than they are in replying to his text, rams into the back rest of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreview|title=Letters to the LostFrontpage|author=Brigid Kemmerer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Juliet has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skype. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit-and-run accident, 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 daughter, she would still be alive today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Stargazing for Beginners|author=Jenny McLachlanSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Meg loves spaceGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. And when we say Meg loves spaceAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, this doesnshe is used to not being a priority in people't quite explain how much Meg loves spaces lives. Meg loves all things space to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has But when she defends a space mural random boy in her bedroom. She belongs to a stargazing club class with her grandfather. She slingshot, her simple existence is determined to become an astronaut one daychanged for good. And No longer can she dreams of winning a competition that will earn spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a place on a trip to NASA boy in Houstonit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargraveT L Huchu|title= The Island at the End Library of Everything|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in the Philippines at the beginning of the last century, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Island. It's a beautiful place covered in lush forests and surrounded by a blue sea that matches the sky. It's Ami's home and the only place she has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live on the edge of the world away from civilisation. Ami's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders who are free from the sickness to another island, Ami's world is torn apart. Banished across the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lady MidnightDead

|summary= Cassandra Clare Ropa Moyo is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in the City of Angels where she grew up. She recalls, "I was an imaginative teenagera ghostalker, always seeing supernatural creatures and potential using Zimbabwean magic around every corner". Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir, classical texts and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy with mystery (and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans bit of 'The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy Scottish pragmatism) to rejoin take messages from the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma and Julian last seen battling dead of Edinburgh for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Fire' and now facing painful decisionsliving relatives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Davis and Mike Lowery|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta Nerdsville|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=A lot has happened in the life of our hero Joe Ever since we [[The Private Blog she dropped out of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]. A lot must have happened in the third book in the series tooschool, as we start here with him in a very new situation. Heshe's in London, been using it to support not the Midlands town of his upbringingonly herself, but her younger sister and three her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of his flat-mates and buddies are a band about to be signed by a major labelEdinburgh, with him as their ostensible manager. And hetargeting the city's got a newchildren. Soon, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this Ropa is pulled into the search for a teen diary book full missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the comedy world of embarrassment, magic is far bigger and nothing can more dangerous than she ever be expected could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to go his way…this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Kristen O'Neal|title=See How They Lie Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has only vague memories of life before her dad, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae to come to terms with the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine and perfectly balanced organic diet are normal. The Creek's patients – teens with psychological problems – might find it unnerving to fact that she may be trapped in constant pain for the middle rest of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks sheher life. She joins 's lucky. Or she does until a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's family. Mae starts to wonder what else they might have lied about. Soon Mae is questioning everything sheOof Ouch My Bones's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerous, and potentially deadly, consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Every Hiddden Thing|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Three things stir Samuel's teenaged heart. Duty to his father is one, and another is admiration for the man's career as a dinosaur hunter and aspiration an online support group where she talks to follow in his tracks. Dad has never been a professor as such, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite a pioneer in the field bunch of finding fossilsother teens living with chronic illnesses. And the third thing? Rachel. Not conventionally beautifulThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, Samuel still finds enough in her while also providing an escape to arouse things. But that's where the trouble lies, for Rachel's father just joke and his are confirmed enemies and rivalsmess around. And as luck would have it, theyWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn're all four headed t respond to the same remotechat for a while, outlawish region in search of notable remainsPriya becomes concerned. How can they be loyal She decides to the science, steal her parents' car and drive to their families, ''and'Brigid' s house to their hearts?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Meg Grehan|title=The Space Between|rating=4check up on her.5|genre=Teens|summary=But what she doesn''The Space Between'' tells the story of Beth, over the course of t expect to find there is a year. We see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away werewolf in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolated. Mouse the dog, however, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, also, Alice basement – and slowly Alice brings both light and love for that werewolf to Beth's world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and be the army seems powerless girl she has been talking 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 of online for the round table, no less: King Arthurpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>1683692349