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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Max Boucherat|authortitle=Rob KeeleyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|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'Millions 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 people will die tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the wargame has been doctored – well, Ellie. And it's our job where is a girl to make sure it happensturn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. That5|genre=Teens|summary='s why our work isn't easyI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

And if that's not ominousRosevear, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her frienda remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do rocks and live a normal, boring, human life. Mum is still working for plundering the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longerwrecks. Money is tight and MumMira, as everlike her mother before her, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living one of the life of Riley. He's eager seven who swim out to help out but Mum won't hear of itsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. And Ellie has But when the Council Watch lays a romantic interest in Luke. All in alltrap to end the wrecking, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gwyneth Rees|title=Libby in capture the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bellaisland's leader and Mira's father. Bella used Desperate to be save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a real confidante wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Libby but things have changed since guide her, she got sets off in search of a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries family secret that it will never come backlies buried deep in the sea. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems With only nine days to Libby that Graceunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the baby watched streets of foreign islands to the familyheart of the smuggler's territory, commands all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the parental love future of her home and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her ownones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonHarry Allen|title=FreshersChildren of the Sun

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, Ra Eun Seo lives in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university a North Korean town and she is a monumental transitiontalented singer. For some, it's an escape. A chance Life is hard and food is difficult to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. Howevercome by, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people so Seo and the pressure to make new her friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe Nari and Luke went to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's weekMin go foraging every evening, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds looking for a messy, intense tree bark and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took edible grasses to supplement the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report meagre rations of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Carey rice and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online account, begins to abuse Amelia. To make matters worse, the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messages. Soon everyone, even Amelia, is convinced of Carey's guilt. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When the online threats spill over into real life, Carey is determined to discover who is framing herkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldAlexia Casale|title= Flight of a StarlingSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a double act as a trapeze act life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the travelling circus middle of a dance performance that forms a backdrop was going to their liveschange her life. Always on But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the movepity stares, travelling from one place and desperate to get back to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knowna life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The sisters are surrounded by Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the love day to day traumas of their family and all the close friends who make up the other circus actschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy So even though she can't dance anymore, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenSimon Fox|title=The Starman and MeDeadlock

|summary=''He wasn't an alienLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, I was sure of that. It was more like demanding he'd walked in through an ancient door fetch something from the past... except he was herea secret place, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real join him on Planet Earththe run.'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when he spied a tiny human the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a roundabout near tin his father was determined to keep away from his house. But he wasn't. Rorty Thrutch is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding out in colleagues, and the middle bearer of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon be ''bad dead''? whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceLex Croucher|title=Indigo DonutGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=''In Bailey's opinionWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Indigo didn't look like she needed it lifted my spirits in a heromost delightful way. One by one In this story, she looked MonaGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, Saskiayou see, Betti and Kay is in love with Bridget (the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' Thatkingdom's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo only female knight) - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And something that's the least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after Art discovers from her father killed her mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Authors|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UKprivate diaries. And it's then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastards|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that boy they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half becoming reluctant allies, creating the kingdomsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Royal plots But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, magic, adventure and will they find a rich culture to immerse yourself way in. Can the pack of bastards make it which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch themlive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No FilterNick Brooks|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsPromise Boys

|summary=Em - Emerald - 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 led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have sent her to a posh private schoolbeen there at the time of his murder. She's friends with all the right people But who killed him, and why, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Em's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in the crosshairs if any of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There boys are secrets at home about to turn from secret to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdosesinnocent, the dominoes start will they be able to topple.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hayley Long1919635017|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in A Thief to Catch a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Clementine Beauvais|title=PiglettesKitt Townsend

|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Mireille so why is at first too hard-hearted he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default modethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But soon all three medallists in I'll answer the unwanted competition form a trio, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – first one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored : for a major military honour in favour of his ex-superior, who should instead be getting hauled over the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth father, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Love & GelatoDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' Ant is in hope of Year Eleven at quite a light-hearted summery readstandard 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 an added draw being that both his best buddy from the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country of minefootball team, and that's exactly what I gottwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother As they's wish by spending a summer in Tuscanyre all fired up, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know straining at the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by leash only a journal her Mom left hersingle-sex school can form, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography talk in Florenceclass and out often turns to sex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''They need something to believe int know what his score is, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe where his achievements in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completelyregard lie. Fourteen years ago that her father He's plans of revolution fell throughhad a casual relationship, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twentysecret one, Elanna prepares for either study or marriageseveral months now, until King Antoine dies and sheso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her fatherbut whether that's menset in stone, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to anotherhe can't be sure. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution And that failed fourteen years ago, 's mostly because of who he wants to unite 's been having the people in creating a fair kingdom relationship and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align sex with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Ethan I Was Before1800901232|authortitle=Ali Standish|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to a little town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kacey. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in Coralee, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Sonya Hartnett|title=SurrenderSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father Twelve-year- vicious corporal punishment for old Hanh wanted to be a minor infraction is a constant threat fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and his mentally abusive mother who loses no woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in himbe missed. Anwell is not popular at school Some money changed hands and his life at home is severely proscribedHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So Only, when Finnigan appearsHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, Anwell is grateful for a friendthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Finnigan is strange You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and wild beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and full of a dark freedom. He doesndistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't even go to schools quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClarePatrice Lawrence|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Needle|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=After the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight', Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and their friends. Their troubles are by no means over as they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together and have plans to use their unique set of skills to wage war on the mortal world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powers, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs out? Will they be able to save the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire Hennessy|title= Like Other Girls|rating= 4.53

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called LaurenBrave. She Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is not extremely hard for some people to like other girls, though she does sometimes like other girlscharacters and readers both. For one, her mum is the headmistress Kicked out of her school, for twomultiple homes and schools, she doesn't fit in to s fostering with a cliquepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and for three, has taken up residence in her boyfriend thinks sheson Blake's mad. Laurenold room while he's world has been turned upside down by at uni. Such a revelation tempestuous personality may be in need of someone close to her a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and when something enormous happens to Lauren, she has no the creation of one she can turn tosuch item is part of the plot here, 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 as Charlene is a sparrowhawkwonder knitter, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop making something full of love and affection is all thatfor her younger sister – a younger sister she's needed allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And in any casethen... well, Nicky has other things what exactly happens is not for me to worry aboutsay, like avoiding the bully at school only to remark how sharp and finding a way to talk to the girl he likespointy those knitting needles can be. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart FosterAnn Sei Lin|title= All The Things That Could Go WrongRebel Skies

|summary=Alex Kurara has OCDspent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and as if make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that wasn't awful enoughshe is a Crafter like him, he's getting badly bullied at schoolsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Dan's the guy who's bullying He asks her to come with him, but he's not really sure why he to leave the life of dreary servitude that is apart from the fact Sophie says he shouldall she has known. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brotherWell, Ben. soon Kurara won''All t have any say in the matter, because the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Dan's stories as they just try she is forced to make it through flee out into the daysworld. While Alex fights his OCD and his bulliesShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this a sky-ship whose express purpose is going to be hunt down shikigami, and a cut and dried story whole world of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BarterMarcus Sedgwick|title=TroublemakersWrath

|summary=Ever since Alena can rememberMeet Fitz, it's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after hera young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Her mother died when she was Lockdown is only just three years old. It might over, and he should be small free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and unorthodoxwith whom he wants, but Alena's family is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in Londonit when he talks to his best friend, triggered by Cassie. They were half of a series of bombingsdesultory school band, threaten to spill over and shatter but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the stability of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the only family Alena has ever knownearth. Faced Is this connected with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into one of her eco-warrior parents saying the past, at end of the life world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of activism that her mother led? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, a life that her brother not when Cassie has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answersgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashTori Bovalino|title=Honor GirlThe Devil Makes Three

|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 Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?boarding school' Sign me ups headmaster, pleaseand a man Tess hates. But this YA mystery is more like As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a teenage Agatha Christie: large request, Tess sticks post-itnotes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's twistyre never meant to reach him, complexof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and at several points I began to wonder if the final reveal then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be that everyone was the murderer, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean Hale|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey and, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become a hero. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging, fast-paced, hip and extremely cool. What would a person be like if they 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 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 isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPhilip Reeve|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Utterly Dark Matter)|author=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 Face of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for WhiteDeep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Maconthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, GeorgiaBritish but way west, Benjamin was a slavebeyond the Scillies. He was a talented carpenter tooThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, but on November and legends of the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, smiling and being politewhere no ship dare sail. What was going on? He wasn't just unnervedThe current Darks are the Watcher, but nervous: you seeAndrewe, Benjamin was looking at who has to keep notes of activity from the white womanHidden Lands, looking ''her'' his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the eye his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnAndrewe't a white woman: this was Rosas foundling daughter, who was mixed racewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. She could pass for whiteBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but she too was a slave. Rosa both his sullen brother and Benjamin eventually marriedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Bali RaiJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and saving their cat from the day while simultaneously winning family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the heart far NE of the girl (Freya being Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the girllantern, hopefully). Batman which is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuspecialist thing, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to lazy classmateshunt the elusive Greenland shark. Still And Julia, well, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely she will be homesick and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessJonathan Stroud|title= Release|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 The Outlaws Scarlett 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= SpellslingerBrowne

|summary=''And when did I volunteer Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter wander the wildlands between the world Seven Kingdoms of the Jan'TepBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, powerful mages a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ability to draw on mythical Free Isles of the seven magicsLondon Lagoon. Then meet KellenTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who despite being the son of one cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most formidable mages Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoever. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Karen GregorySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Hedda is 20 weeks pregnantGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. It was As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a one-night stand"real" family, so thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's no father on the scenelives. She's 17. She's But when she defends a random boy in the grip of an eating disorder and has been her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for yearsgood. Her best friend recently died. She's living No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a grotty flat because solitude, for her relationship with her parents life now has broken down. I think we can all agree a boy in it that the situation is direshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefT L Huchu|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and me, if you please - has just returned a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Strathfearntake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's 1938 been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her grandfatheraging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the Earl ruined streets of StrathfearnEdinburgh, has recently diedtargeting the city's children. Soon, leaving Ropa is pulled into the search for a mountain missing boy at the request of debt behind himhis dead mother. The family's ancestral home has been sold to meet the debt She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the death duties and will soon become a school. But, as the contents world of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there magic is time for Julie far bigger and her family to spend more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape missing children and bring an end to friendsthis evil, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenKristen O'Neal|authortitle=David OwenLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Life is tough on Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope fact that she may be in constant pain for the futurerest of her life. TheyShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''re already judged by their poverty, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their religiontroubles and help each other out, their racewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Carving out When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like a pipe dreamwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But, what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in their various ways, Siobhan, Keisha, Maida the basement – and Morris are all trying - whether for that means making plans werewolf to get out, or developing strategies to cope with life as it be the girl she has been dealttalking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1683692349