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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Ahmed -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|lefttitle=The Last Life of Lori Mills|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]5|genre===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]===Confident Readers [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells We meet Lori on the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, first evening she is struggling 's got the house to convince her parents herself – no neighbour to allow her to move away to attend university. However, pop in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usualbabysitter poorly, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Lovemother at work, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br> <!just an avidly rule-- Holland -->[[image:Holland Everlessbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159 What could possibly go wrong?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]] ===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live Snuggled in the kingdom of Sempera. In Semperaa blanket fort, she has one main intention, everything and that is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in to log on to Voxminer, the form of bloodworld-coinsbuilding, currency taken from actual blood and denominated critter-collecting game that is a hit in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her fatherLori's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling familyworld. But Jules's father objects for first Lori has a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Semperatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's queent find herself entirely on her own, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everythingthen she finds something even more spooky... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Andrew Zurcher|title= Twelve Nights|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay For the server she and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls her bestie and their mother arrive nobody else should be able to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard enter shows signs of himtampering. It sounds like the beginning of a scary murder-mystery When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, or a cat-and-mouse chase her safe place in the style of James Bond or Dan Browngame has been doctored – well, but what actually lies behind this event where is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest girl to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141385545</amazonuk>0008666482
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|summary= When Lily wakes up on ''I can hear the song of the side sea. The call of the roaddeep, she knows immediately that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying the answering beat in the mudmy heart. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A disembodied ghostMira, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of like her mother before her own death, as her friends and family struggle is one of the seven who swim out to deal with survey the fallout from the hit-ruins – rescuing any survivors and-run any treasure that killed herlies within. With no idea how But when the Council Watch lays a trap to move onend the wrecking, Lily starts they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to despairsave him from death, until one night she finally manages to make her presence known. She's always had Mira makes a bargain with a strong bond wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her brother Ben - , she sets off in search of a twin thingfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Now that bond allows him With only nine days to see unearth what might save her when no-one else canfather, and gives as her journey takes her from the chance watched streets of foreign islands to return the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the living world. Lily has a lot future of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer payhome and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerHarry Allen|title= RenegadesChildren of the Sun|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority Ra Eun Seo lives in a world of chaos North Korean town and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom she is a talented singer. Life is hard and justice. Victorious in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundfood is difficult to come by, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers so Seo and leaders of the future, governing a new peaceful her friends Nari and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up toMin go foraging every evening, the officers people look to looking for justice tree bark and strength. All except edible grasses to supplement the fraction meagre rations of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting rice and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from themkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldAlexia Casale|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5
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|summary=In It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Ballad for re having to navigate a Mad Girllife-changing disability too, but that'', Grace becomes obsessed s what Ven is dealing with solving after collapsing on stage in the mystery middle of Hannah Holta dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced life that's as normal as she has encountered Hannahcan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's ghosta new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. The more So even though she investigatescan't dance anymore, the more might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is convinced Hannah's case late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is in some way linked arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to her own Mother's deathBrighton, toting a former classmate tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agowhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonLex Croucher|title= The Extinction TrialsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on EarthasiaWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a continent ruined by overpopulationmost delightful way. Space is scarce In this story, Gwen and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her fatheryou see, so she lives is in one of Earthasialove with Bridget (the kingdom's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying only female knight) - something that Art discovers from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save herprivate diaries. It's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a meanboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, desperate existence for them both and so creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloriaenabling their own other romantic attachments. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a virus to kill them way in which they can both truly be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access themselves, or are they destined to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Nick Brooks|title=My Sweet Orange TreePromise Boys|rating=34|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just that sometimesWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Zeze, you're too naughtythree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorEach, seemingly, Zeze – he's has a young tykegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and everyone in his large, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in each could have been there at the neighbourhood – knows he's skilled at being up to no good, that perhaps he was born with a little time of the devil in him where Jesus should residehis murder. Instantly adept at being able to readBut who killed him, even when he's only fiveand why, the precocious brat is forced to face something that might be the changing of him, once and for all – school. This time if any of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current placeboys are innocent, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular tree, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get they be able to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sheena Wilkinson1919635017|title= Star by StarA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Stella so why is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs he running around London committing a boarding house. This coincides with a time series of great change for the country as women are allowed robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to vote for the first timesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Stella is determined to follow in her motherBut I's footsteps to help make history, and whilst her age denies her ll answer the ability to vote herself, she goes to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast hersfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson Patrick Ness and Alex T SmithTea Bendix|title= Grave MatterDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary= Since Eliza diedAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, since the night so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the car crash that took her lifefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, Sam is straining at the leash only a broken soulsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. He Which is lost without the girl he lovesconfusing for Ant, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he doesn't know what his score is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza, where his achievements in that regard lie. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie 's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover so has effectively progressed up the Milk Manladder headed by 'experienced', which causes Sam but whether that's set in his grieving state to make a pact with forces stone, he doesncan't understandbe sure. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam And that's life in more ways than mostly because of who he bargained for's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Suvada1800901232|title= This Mortal CoilStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to save humanity, but it seems be a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pacefashion designer. Catarina has lived alone and Life in hiding for the past two years, since rural village where she lived with her brilliant father family was rounded up by happy, if not prosperous, so when the State smartly-dressed man and taken by force woman came to work in the national laboratories. His last message village to her offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to hide from be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the State mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to trust them an inch. Set work in Americaa shop, but not they were to work in virtual slavery in an America we would recognise, most of illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors ones with intricate embroidery and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain in hiding beading on the surface, hoping legs? The ones with the virus will not reach artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them ? It's quite possible that Hanh and avoiding anyone who is infectedher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingPatrice Lawrence|title= WitchbornNeedle|rating= 4.53|genre= Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul of this piece is extremely hard for your eyes some people to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intriguelike, terror characters and suspicionreaders both. A world Kicked out of witchcraft multiple homes and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Motherschools, the only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed 's fostering with a witchpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her Mother was sentenced to being burnt son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the stake by creation of one such item is part of the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behindplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, Alyce escapes to London but and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's not aloneallowed contact with no more. Endangered We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and being followed, Alyce is determined then force people to keep give her freedomtwo days off school, but when she shouts someone down as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possibleexpletively ignorant. And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise itthen... well, what exactly happens is caught between two strong and powerful Queensnot for me to say, one desperate only to steal the throne remark how sharp and the other determined to keep it…pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungAnn Sei Lin|title= The Road to Ever AfterRebel Skies
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|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires Kurara has spent her entire life as a chauffeurservant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and we watch as make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she gradually softens towards desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him and they become friends, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. So farWell, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, an apt comparison in because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a book which references several well-loved classic filmsshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. But She joins Himura aboard the obvious similarity ends there. DavyOrihime, hired a sky-ship whose express purpose is to take Miss Flint on her final road triphunt down shikigami, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Marcus Sedgwick|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartWrath
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|summary=Meet TortotFitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He's a camp chef for an armyLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with a cold heart – whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he sheds no tearstalks to his best friend, or at least as much as does Cassie. They were half of a fish desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – and saying she could hear a brilliant way of gauging subhuman hum coming from the warfare going on around himearth. The book even starts Is this connected with him crossing one of her eco-warrior parents saying the battlefield to start work for end of the enemy the night before they turn world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the tables on his previous employers and defeat themtruth? Well, leaving Tortot on the winning side once more. But now he's not alone – for when Cassie has gone missing he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperorscan' favourite and most important gherkins…t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyTori Bovalino|title= Daughter of the Burning CityThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion and sleight of hand. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Delevigne|title= Mirror, Mirror|rating= 25
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|summary= If Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the news last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss she has to deliver herself. What makes it? Were you living under worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a rock?), all about man Tess hates. As a group petty act of teens who go looking revenge for their friend who disappeared, makes you roll your eyes making her find and say ''welldeliver such a large request, that sounds a bit like Paper Towns''Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, don't worry: youscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're not alone (seriouslynever meant to reach him, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads)of course. It's a pretty lazy write-off, though, so I was curious Her plan is to read get her anger out like this to see what could , and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be said about it, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorPhilip Reeve|title=The TreatmentUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When Drew's brother In a word, rich. There is once again expelled from schoolcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and sent away legends of the Dark family that has to a special reform schoolkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Drew doesn't really carewhere no ship dare sail. She The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has enough to keep notes of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she is followed home activity from school by a mysterious doctorthe Hidden Lands, his brother Will who claims lives in London with too much science in his head to have a sinister message from her brotherworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, begging Drew to help him because who washed up out of the school is not a reform schoolsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and actually all his curious ward are thrust into the children there are being brainwashedworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= The Beast is an Animal Julia and the Shark|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=The Beast is an AnimalJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when has been packed off with her village was set upon by the Soul Eaters, she was the only one to see them. Alys parents and their cat from the other orphans are sent family home in SW England to the neighbouring village but this place is not like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are piousbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, they say that Alys's village must have been in league with the Beast, that they drew far NE of the Soul Eaters inScottish islands. People in Defaid are suspicious Here be Vikings, and they are particularly suspicious that kind of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seenScottish island. Despite it's piety and it devotion Dad is going to be automating the ways of the Shepherdlantern, which is his specialist thing, Defaid feels while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong therewell, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn to them. As she grows older will be homesick and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is alone – until she bad like them? suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaJonathan Stroud|title= ExodusThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
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|summary= Exodus Scarlett McCain is a book whichan outlaw, though fifteen years oldrejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live in right at this momentrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Set in But then she meets Albert Browne, a world ravaged by global warming dark boy with dark powers and melting ice-capsa darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, this is they plan to flee to the story mythical Free Isles of the last inhabitants of an island called WingLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who set sail in search the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of a new life once Wing is sunk under post-apocalyptic society to reach the rising tide. It turns out to Free Isles, but will they be a much wilder story any more accepted there than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon P ClarkMercedes Helnwein|title=Not Yet DarkSlingshot|rating= 4.53|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tinyGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. But now, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world As a secret illegitimate daughter of adolescencea man with a "real" family, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends she is used to not being a priority in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and she doesnpeople't like its lives. She gets angry But when Danny doesn't shut them down. And, if she's truthfuldefends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she's a tiny bit jealous of the spend her time Danny spends with them. For his partwriting novels in solitude, Danny feels for her life now has a bit suffocated by thisboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amy ReedT L Huchu|title=The Nowhere GirlsLibrary of the Dead
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|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' Ropa Moyo is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Graceghostalker, Erin using Zimbabwean magic (and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge take messages from the sexist culture at dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting been using it to support not only herself, but her new life with younger sister and her aging grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. SheHowever, there's made friends and has even had a hint an evil stalking the ruined streets of romanceEdinburgh, yet her old life targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is hard to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take pulled into the search for a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murderedmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. No one knows who She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is next on far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the killer's list missing children and bring an end to this evil, or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with will it claim her.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Gardner|title=My Side of the Diamond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''You have to accept that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound to land. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving the outside of the London Cathedral's dome, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them off. ItKristen O's a most peculiar scenario, and our narrator Jaz is struggling to tell her mysterious interrogator, Mr Jones, all about it – and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Becky, the friend, was a child prodigy sci-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from life. Rushing around to investigate the case of the fallers, she seems to have found that, in the shape of a hot-blooded romance. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquests, evidence and hatred?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Louis de BernieresNeal|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death Lycanthropy and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteOther Chronic Illnesses
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