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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchMax Boucherat|title= Love & GelatoThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'We meet Lori on the first evening she' s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in hope of a light, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-hearted summery readbreaking eleven year old, with an added draw being that the action takes place on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Italya blanket fort, a favourite country of mineshe has one main intention, and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells is to log on to Voxminer, the story of Linaworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a teenager who fulfils her dying Motherhit in Lori's wish by spending world. But first Lori has a summer in Tuscanytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know and then she finds something even more spooky. For the father server she has never knownand her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. She is aided When malevolent eyes spark up on this quest by a journal her Mom left phone screen, and hersafe place in the game has been doctored – well, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florence.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie BatesRachel Greenlaw|title= The Waking LandCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in I can hear the song of the old storiessea. In The call of the power of deep, the landanswering beat in my heart.''

It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell throughRosevear, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head remote and took her hostage. Raised by the Kingpartially forgotten island, Elanna grows survives on luring ships into adulthood suppressing her magic the rocks and resenting plundering the parents she once lovedwrecks. Now twentyMira, Elanna prepares for either study or marriagelike her mother before her, until King Antoine dies is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and she's condemned any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to death for treason. On end the runwrecking, Elanna encounters her fatherthey capture the island's men, leader and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to anotherMira's father. Her father it seems, wants Desperate to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years agosave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he wants is secretive and with only coordinates to unite the people guide her, she sets off in creating search of a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be family secret that lies buried deep in the face of the rebellionsea. He wants With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her to be journey takes her from the Steward watched streets of foreign islands to the Land capable heart of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to decide which side she'll align with save the future of her home and how the ones she will shape her destinyholds most dear. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeHarry Allen|authortitle=Ali StandishChildren of the Sun|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to Ra Eun Seo lives in a little North Korean town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in and she is a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kaceytalented singer. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else Life is hard and food is difficult to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in CoraleeMin go foraging every evening, who has a great line in tall stories looking for tree bark and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard edible grasses to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does..supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettAlexia Casale|title=SurrenderSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- vicious corporal punishment for a minor infraction changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a constant threat - and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity dance performance that was going to belittle change her young son and express her disappointment in himlife. Anwell is not popular at school But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and his desperate to get back to a life at home is severely proscribedthat's as normal as she can possibly manage. So Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, when Finnigan appearsher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full just the day to day traumas of a dark freedomall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. He doesn So even though she can't even go dance anymore, might she be able to school.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareSimon Fox|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=After Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'force, and then suddenly rings Archie, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequeldemanding he fetch something from a secret place, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for join him on the Blackthorn family and their friendsrun. Their troubles are by no means over as they face They get together, but barely begin to smell the aftermath whiff of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and Southern trains when the malicious machinations of father is arrested, leaving Archie on the cohort [late express to Brighton, toting a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants tin his father was determined to keep away from his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma colleagues, and the reappearance bearer of Annabel threatens to tear them aparta whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyLex Croucher|title=ResurrectionGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs helpWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together In this story, Gwen and Arthur have plans been betrothed since they were tiny, much to use their unique set of skills to wage war on mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the mortal worldkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a scheme that should guarantee their success: boy they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powersfind themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hourswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will she stay when the time runs out? Will they find a way in which they can both truly be able themselves, or are they destined to save the worldlive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyNick Brooks|title= Like Other GirlsPromise Boys|rating= 4.5

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called Lauren. She is not like other girls, though she does sometimes like other girls. For one, her mum is When the headmistress principal (headmaster) of her Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliquethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and for threeseemingly, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation grudge of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Laurensome description against Principal Moore, she has no one she can turn to, or so she believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off each could have been there at the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop time of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalhis murder. And in any case But who killed him, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequencewhy, troubles were dogging Kenny and if any of the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stewart Foster|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCDinnocent, and as 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 will they just try be able 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 isn't. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barter1919635017|title=TroublemakersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-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 unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|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 Ant is the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy in Year Eleven at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being quite a sleep-walkerstandard school, and ignore the fact she's from a different state is surprised to every other girl aroundfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all so his desk is one of a sudden become an ace shot on four with both his best buddy from the rifle rangefootball team, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else two other old muckers – the in fact that she seems they all go back to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campers, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorprimary school days together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Karen M McManus|title= One of Us Is Lying|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary=As they'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me re all fired up, please. But this YA mystery is more like straining at the leash only a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twistysingle-sex school can form, complex, and at several points I began to wonder if the final reveal would be that everyone was the murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Shannon Hale talk in class and Dean Hale|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California out often turns to New Jersey and, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become a herosex. A fantastic origin tale Which is confusing for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is engaging, fast-paced, hip and extremely coolwhere his achievements in that regard lie. What would a person be like if they He's had the proportional strength and agility of a squirrel? Wonder no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teenscasual relationship, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precisea secret one, as we are well into the twenty-first century herefor several months now, of and so has effectively progressed up the cyber kind. But this isnladder headed by 'experienced't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult bookbut whether that's set in stone, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who he can't see the point of going onbe sure. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light And that's mostly because of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into who he's been having the sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, relationship and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time..sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)1800901232|authortitle=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for WhiteSteve 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. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's 1938 headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her grandfatherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Earl of Strathfearnbooks, has recently died, leaving a mountain scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of debt behind him. The familyThey's ancestral home has been sold re never meant to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a schoolreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwaythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, there is time if someone hadn't delivered them for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=David OwenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Life In a word, rich. There is tough on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope certainly an abundance of riches 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 story set on a pipe dream. Butpeculiar island called Wildsea, in their various waysBritish but way west, Siobhanbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, Keishaand sea-witches, Maida and Morris are all trying - whether legends of the Dark family that means making plans has to get outkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtwhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Thomas|title=The Hate U Give|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all current Darks are the wrong reasons: povertyWatcher, drugsAndrewe, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her has to act - a freedom that isn't afforded to her at keep notes of activity from the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black students. HoweverHidden 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 back.'' Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simpleScarlett McCain is an outlaw, impatient text rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to his best friend. His best friend who is driving wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and on the way shooting other outlaws to pick him up at any momentkeep herself alive. His best friend who in replying to his textBut then she meets Albert Browne, rams into the back of a truck instantly killing himself dark boy with dark powers and their other two best friends in the cara darker past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Letters With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the Lost|author=Brigid Kemmerer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Juliet has always written letters to her mothermythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. 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 hitTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted andall the horrors of post-run accident, rushing home apocalyptic society 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 daughterreach the Free Isles, she would still but will they be alive today.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=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 a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kiran Millwood Hargrave|title= The Island at the End of Everything|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set time writing novels in the Philippines at the beginning of the last centurysolitude, Ami lives with for her mother on Culion Island. It's life now has a beautiful place covered boy in lush forests and surrounded by a blue sea it that matches the sky. It's Ami's home and the only place she has ever known. But Culion is an island never asked 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: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareT L Huchu|title= Lady MidnightThe Library of the Dead

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