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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskMax Boucherat|title=In the TreesThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alex and Adam are twins, and theyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're telepathic s got the house to bootherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. They're very close What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward that is to their holiday log on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farm, but Alex can't think of anything worse. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister EmmyVoxminer, but Alex resents the attention she gets (sheworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's disabled, y'see)world. By and large, they But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're just ordinary kidst find herself entirely on her own, with ordinary grumblesand then she finds something even more spooky. When For the car they're in goes through thick fog server she and her bestie and crashesnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, they find themselves and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a town from times past, with inhabitants who don't want girl to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmy.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganRachel Greenlaw|title=No Compass and MeBlade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lou is a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer groupI can hear the song of the sea. Funnily enoughThe call of the deep, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen and such a rebel that he's been moved down two yearsthe answering beat in my heart. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenHarry Allen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Children of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work Ra Eun Seo lives in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, North Korean town and almost the soul of the land. They might not get she is a surname so we know immediately who is whomtalented singer. They might be from a different world - there Life is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, hard and more, en route food is difficult to a quest of Arthurian proportions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded come by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, so Seo and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on themfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, edible grasses to find supplement the twin brother he'd never told her about meagre rations of rice and destroy the Amarantkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenAlexia Casale|title=Drawing with LightSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Emily doesnIt't remember her biological mother. She ran away s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with another man when Emily after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was just twogoing to change her life. Now But she comes back fighting, her older sister Kat, her fatherdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and her stepmother Cassy make up the family unit and Emily thinks itdesperate to get back to a life that's just fine that wayas normal as she can possibly manage. She doesn Meanwhile there't need s a mother who didn't want new (cute!) boy in school, her and has never even tried music A Level performance piece to get in touch. But then Kat goes off try to universitysort out, her father buys a rundown house in and just the middle day to day traumas of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while itall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's being renovatedt dance anymore, and Cassy gets pregnant. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenSimon Fox|title=Along for the RideDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Auden has always felt like Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the odd one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achieversforce, and theythen suddenly rings Archie, especially her motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, want and join him on the same for Audenrun. Auden's older brother They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs late express to be the one who satisfies her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even Brighton, toting a moment. But she's socially awkward tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend, hates the colour pink and can't even ride bearer of a bikewhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsLex Croucher|title=Nearly DepartedGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=At first sightWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has lifted my spirits in a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabbymost delightful way. But it's pretty In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isnlove with Bridget (the kingdom't like any other towns only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. There's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a strangely abundant wood right in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the middle subterfuge of itfalling in love with each other, and at night, everythings turns, wellwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you way in. And there which they can both truly be themselves, or are odd noises too... ... and Emily thinks she's seen they destined to live a ghost. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>1526651793
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|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him. ''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive When the next 365 days!'' The man principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is carted off in an ambulancemurdered, and Cal tries to shrug off three boys find themselves called into the incident but it's not easypolice station as suspects. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is Each, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detailseemingly, but is pretty sure he was on to something big. Could there be a connection? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Feasey|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost unclegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches each could have been there at the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Treytime of his murder. But there is a pack out therewho killed him, and it's viciouswhy, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out if any of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships the boys are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems innocent, will they be able to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Dakin1919635017|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of the three people who live in his household. Some pink cake at the best of times. A trip to the cemetery, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the houseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, it is too late - Theo so why is set on he running around London committing a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths series of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come robberies? And how did he learn to the fore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In crack safes? You''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, ll have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to wait to get an answer to the throne, has vanishedsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Wynter, along with AlberonBut I's half brother Razi and ll answer the first one: for his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situationgrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip WomackPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The LiberatorsDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a South American expedition. As it's the standard school holidays, Ivo and is off surprised to London find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to stay with some glamorous relativesprimary school days together. Aunt Lydia is As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for single-sex school can form, the great talk in class and the goodout often turns to sex. Uncle Jago Which is in finance and there isn't much about wheeling and dealing that confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo his score is really looking forward to about , where his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offerachievements in that regard lie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Dolamore|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she He's regarded as had a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in casual relationship, a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in povertysecret one, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenlyseveral months now, she's freed from and so has effectively progressed up the seedy music hall ladder headed by Hollin Parry'experienced', a wealthy man and a member of Lorinarbut whether that's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automatonset in stone, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namiracan's unique voice to accompany itt be sure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer And that's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one mostly because of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Reece|title=Roxy|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchenwho he's funeral when she got been having the phone call to tell her that her father was in a coma relationship and likely to die. This might sound like a double whammy but Maddie's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her mother died) and she was brought up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed an opportunity to point out that she was an unwanted burdenthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Mansfield1800901232|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star BlazeStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Before I get into Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the review of this bookrural village where she lived with her family was happy, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh booknot prosperous, [[Johnny Mackintosh so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]], you go off village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and read Hanh was on the review of that first mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and then go and read the book itself. It's other girls were not going to work in a fantastic read. But because this is a sequelshop, there are obviously going they were to be some SPOILERS aheadwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. So, done You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that have felt so soft when youtouched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie Patrice Lawrence|title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)Needle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Holly Cathers has returnedBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and this timeschools, she's more powerful than everfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. The war between Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the House creation of one such item is part of Cahors witches the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and House is making something full of Deveraux warlocks still rages onlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only one side will eventually triumphto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal ShustermanAnn Sei Lin|title=EverwildRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, part philosophical enquirya massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, and part coming-of-age story when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost she is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have diedCrafter like him, but somehow missed someone with the tunnel and the light - wherever and power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the light actually isEmpire. Adults never make it thereHe asks her to come with him, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes doto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Mary HightowerWell, for instancesoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost Midori is destroyed by a wonderful place monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she "saves" is forced to flee out into the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to fill eternity. hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary='I am a murderer. 'I'm standing in a bookshopMeet Fitz, a gun hot in my palmyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced fleshLockdown is only just over, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood begins and he should be free to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked on the floor.' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But do what made a boy do something like this? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ebony McKenna|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ondine de Groot he wants out of psychic summercamp, so together to go where he wants and with her pet ferret Shambleswhom he wants, she flees but he cannot stop himself from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classesputting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, back to her family's restaurantCassie. Only, as soon as she leaves summercampThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she starts hearing voices. Specifically could hear a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is in fact already a man, turned into a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of handsome Lord Vincent, son music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the Duketruth? Well, who sets Ondinenot when Cassie has gone missing he can's heart flutteringt...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonTori Bovalino|title=ChainsThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Isabel and Working all summer in her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a will hundred books that said soshe has to deliver herself. But Miss Mary Finch What makes it worse is dead the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her greedy nephew find and heir denies all knowledge deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the willbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. So Isabel and Ruth are sold They're never meant to the Locktons and taken to New Yorkreach him, of course. The Revolutionary War Her plan is underway to get her anger out like this, and New York is a dangerous placethen take them all off before delivering them. The Locktons are loyalistsNo harm done… Or it would be, but the patriots are in control of the cityif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HarrisonPhilip Reeve|title=The Thirteen Curses|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception Utterly Dark and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty Face of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Farmer|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) Deep|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this third adventurestory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, JackBritish but way west, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bardbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and Thorgil, a badsea-tempered shield maidenwitches, follow and legends of the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest Dark family that has to quell the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned to Jack's village and who seeks revenge keep watch for her earlier ill treatment at human hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenagers Nico, Kitty, Ed magical islands and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babies. Now they're adolescentstheir monster approaching from even further west, the intended psychic abilities are coming to the fore. Nico has the power of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mind. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield and where no weapon can harm hership dare sail. Kitty has visions that predict The current Darks are the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Harker|title=House of Secrets|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane Watcher, Andrewe, who has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving keep notes of activity from place to placethe Hidden Lands, never staying his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the same school for longhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and always reminded of her motherAndrewe's money worriesfoundling daughter, Jane longs for the kind who washed up out of life where she can just be a kid, and not have to deal with adult problems. When she's sent to stay at her sister's student digs, the Laurels, things go from bad to worsesea one day eleven years ago. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no foodBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and to make matters worsehis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her therelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater Julia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Fin is rescued Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from his remote forest the family home by Raggin SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the first man he has ever encounteredfar NE of the Scottish islands. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with the speech and education Here be Vikings, that kind of a nobleman's son but little idea about the real worldScottish island. Other than relying on Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his instincts and resourcefulnessspecialist thing, Fin has no way of knowing who while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to trusthunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Raggwell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerJonathan Stroud|title=The Stone CrownOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the town in which he was born because his mother Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and sistershooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, archaeologists, are working on a dig nearbydark boy with dark powers and a darker past. His father is in a care homeWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned they plan to flee to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died mythical Free Isles of a heroin overdosethe London Lagoon. Emlyn is quiet and shyTogether, a bit geekythey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and lonely. Maxine is lonely tooall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but she'd never admit it. She's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet will they both have a nagging sense that be any more accepted there than they are where they were meant to be. in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonya Hurley Mercedes Helnwein|title=GhostgirlSlingshot|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She Gracie Welles has spent the entire summer break transforming resigned herself to try and fit in being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with the 'a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority inpeople' crowd all s lives. But when she defends a random boy in an attempt to try and attract the attention of Damenher class with her slingshot, a popular and handsome jockher simple existence is changed for good. Yet even after all No longer can she spend her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, time writing novels in a moment of tragic bad lucksolitude, Charlotte chokes on for her life now has a gummy bear, alone boy in a classroom, and dies. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way..that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz T L Huchu|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Fans Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had a two-year wait Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for this installment their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of our young heroschool, she's escapades and they are not going been using it to be disappointed. He's fourteen year old now and support not only is he being targeted by a hitmanherself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, hethere's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell an evil stalking the nation all about ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty workcity's children. The trouble Soon, Ropa is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper that caused pulled into the car he was in to skid off search for a Scottish road and land missing boy at the bottom request of a Lochhis dead mother. And MI6 don't seem all She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that bothered about the journalist, unless, that world of magic is, Alex might be willing far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to find some simple information from a GM crop research centrethis evil, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>1529039452
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