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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorMax Boucherat|title=Daughter The Last Life of Smoke and BoneLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=KarouWe meet Lori on the first evening she's friends think 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, shehas one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's normalworld. They assume, however often she tells them But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her bright blue hair grows that colourown, that and then she dyes itfinds something even more spooky. They think For the server she and her frequent errands are just normal everyday things bestie and nobody else should be able to earn moneyenter shows signs of tampering. They believe When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook game has been doctored – well, where is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckHarry Allen|title=The Hidden KingdomChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Prince Osamu Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a pampered, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told what to dotalented singer. He spends his life surrounded by beauty Life is hard and riches in a world where most people do not even dare food is difficult to raise their eyes to his facecome by, collecting the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi so Seo and her friends Nari and writing poems. His tutors have told him about the demons of Hades which try, Min go foraging every few centuriesevening, to break through the barrier looking for tree bark and take over this world, and that it is his responsibility edible grasses to repel them, but he dismisses all this as old wives' tales. And then one night supplement the forces meagre rations of the Emissary attack the palace, rice and every certainty he had is gone in a flashkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755633</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerAlexia Casale|title=The Double ShadowSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In 1937 Amaryllis Ruben is about It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to turn seventeen. As navigate a present, her father, Arnold Ruben, a widowed, multilife-millionairechanging disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to give his daughter his change her life long work. But she comes back fighting, an invention that could alter time foreverdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a memory machinelife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It can capture the good Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, erase the badher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and keep you young for just the day to day traumas of all timethe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But things aren So even though she can't going dance anymore, might she be able to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interest, and not in a good sing her way. through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Kathleen RyanSimon Fox|title=GlowDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Everyone expected Kieran and Waverley to be together. As the first of the first generation born in space, it seemed almost written in the stars. Destiny. Waverley Late one night Graham Blake is mostly happy with her life late back from his shift on board the Empyrean – one of two ships trailblazing across the universe to New Earthforce, where their crews will start a new human frontier – she loves Kieran (she thinks) and the ship's crew is like one big happy family. But sometimesthen suddenly rings Archie, she wonders if her life would be differentdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, if her choices would be different, if the weight of continuing the human race didn't rest and join him on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Both the central characters in Fury have dark secretsrun. Em is in love with her best friend's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on a winter holiday and Zach starts flirting with her They get together, Em just can't resist even though she knows she's doing something unforgivable. Chase lives on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowd. He'll do just about anything barely begin to maintain his place in smell the group - and there's something he has done to that end whiff of which he's deeply ashamed. But their small American town has come to Southern trains when the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't the only price they'll be paying for their misdeeds... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Foden|title=Life, Death and Gold Leather Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite having not seen her uncle Jupefather is arrested, leaving Archie on the famous former rock starlate express to Brighton, for several years after he fell out with her mother, Clover is still devastated by toting a tin his death. So when her parents split up the day after she turns thirteen, and her father runs off with a nude model, she doesn't think things can get any worse. Can she cope with the fallout of the split, look after kid sister Lily, and get was determined to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him keep away from her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Monique Truong|title=Bitter in the Mouth|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Linda Hammerick, a young girl growing up in North Carolina in the late 1970's, is different. She suffers from synesthesia, tasting things when she speaks or hears words. She grows up with her great-uncle, Baby Harper, as her best friend, as hissingsong voice is the only one she can hear without the accompanying tastescolleagues, and writes letters back and forth with her best friend Kelly rather than have long conversations with herthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099474743</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah WhiteLex Croucher|title=WickednessGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Claire's grandmother has just died. And her parents have just split up. So Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it's not really lifted my spirits in a good timemost delightful way. Mum is being even more of a pain than usual - endlessly cross In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, endlessly cleaningyou see, endlessly combing Granis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's belongings for anything of value only female knight) - and Claire wants nothing more than to go home to her own house and something that Art discovers from her own thingsprivate diaries. But And then when Gwen then she finds catches Art kissing a letter addressed to her from her grandmother. It contains a sheaf boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of manuscripts and a ring inscribed falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a hieroglyph. Once on Claire's fingerway in which they can both truly be themselves, the ring gets stuck - much or are they destined to her mother's annoyance. It could be worth live a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested in buying some of Gran's possessions. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>1526651793
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|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When we last left Stonewyldethe principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the community seemed to be on the verge of police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a period grudge of glorious prosperity some description against Principal Moore, and happiness as Yul became each could have been there at the new Magus and Sylvie joined him as guardians time of Stonewyldehis murder. Thirteen years have passed But who killed him, and Stonewylde is almost unrecognisable; it hasn't quite succumbed to the Outside World yetwhy, but just how much longer can it remain self-sufficient and resistant to the consumerism and pervasive technology that is characteristic if any of the rest of the country? Furthermore, the cracks that begin to appear in Yul's and Sylvie's relationship boys are branching out throughout the whole communityinnocent, with malcontent brewing, cruelty going unchecked, and sinister hints of a dark presence returning will they be able to Stonewylde.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098899</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ally Carter1919635017|title=Heist SocietyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A new series from the creator of the [[I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter|Gallagher Girls]]? Excellent! And this book doesnSolomon Klyne isn't disappoint: young people with unusual and highly specialised skillsa bad lad, encountering bad guys and peril with determination and so why is he running around London committing a healthy dose series of humour. So, whatrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's the difference from the 'Gallagher Girls'? Well, this time, the heroine and her crew are, um, ll have to wait to get an answer to put it bluntly, the villains! Except that it's just not that simplesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Kat comes from a large family of burglars and art thieves, but she decides sheBut I's had enough of ll answer the family business and wants a normal lifefirst one: for his grandmother. Sadly, someone else decides that's not going to happen. They should have told her, using your criminal abilities to forge a false identity and get yourself into the best boarding school in the country is not the best way to go straight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309556</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lil ChasePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys for Beginners
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Gwynnie Ant 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 always been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the guys which was finefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together...until Charlie Notts showed As they're all fired up , straining at the leash only a single-sex schoolcan form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. He's Hot (capital H) and friendly and likes football Which is confusing for Ant, but when Gwynnie realises as hedoesn's firmly putting her on t know what his list of matesscore is, not girlswhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, action must be taken. The thing isa secret one, for a girl whose close family and friends are all blokesseveral months now, and whose one life love to date wasnso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced't so much a trouser shape as a team (Go Spurs!), itbut whether that's going to set in stone, he can't be a big jump from sure. And that's mostly because of who he'being'' one of s been having the guys to ''bagging'' one of relationship and the guyssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857384821</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Martin1800901232|title=Burglar BoyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with a big scene Twelve-year- Dean is halfway though robbing old Hanh wanted to be a house fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the owner returns. Chased by an irate smartly-dressed man with a good aim and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a golf club, he barely makes job in Hanoi it out in one piecewas an opportunity not to be missed. But he dutifully returns home Some money changed hands and divvies up a pile of illHanh was on the mini-gotten goods bus to CallumHanoi. Only, his older brotherHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, who rewards him for they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the risk ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the bruises legs? The ones with a paltry fiver. Still, itthe artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's more pocket money than Dean is likely to see from his mother, who has lapsed further quite possible that Hanh and further into a bottle of vodka since her most recent boyfriend leftco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongPatrice Lawrence|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) TragicNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lottie can’t understand what’s going on with the women around herBrave. Goose has got Charlene, the hots 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for a fellow cinema employee some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a name whichpleasant yoga tutor, spelt backwardsAnnie, is rather unfortunateand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Her mum has fallen for Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the bloke who arrested Lottie back in book creation of onesuch item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and HIS daughter is making something full of love for her younger sister – a scary emo girlyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. There’s only one thing We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to be done… road trip! The central trio of Lottiegive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, Goosewhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and Lottie’s hunky rugby playing boyfriend Gareth hightail it out of Cardiff – but pointy those knitting needles can a change of scenery really solve the problems?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330523015</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent 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 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 desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rebel Angels: BloodstoneWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Seth Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Conal MacGregor have spent so long hunting for the Bloodstone for Kate NicNivenhe should be free to do what he wants, their queento go where he wants and with whom he wants, that they're reached the present day but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in our world (after Firebrand took place in sixteenth century Scotlandit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.) They still haven't found it, thoughwere half of a desultory school band, but they have got themselves involved Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some wonderful spooky new characters, notably sullen teenager Finn, whokind of music she's unaware dreaming of her Sithe heritage but about to ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz findout with far-reaching consequences. Returning to the realm of the fairies with her in towtruth? Well, and two others, the MacGregor boys are about to find even more troublenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537239</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondTori Bovalino|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Half Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a century into our future, a journalist called Eric Seven scents a story on request for over a small, isolated island and goes to investigate. Rumours have spread, saying hundred books that people there never age, and that there are no children. He she has barely set foot on the quay when he sees, and to his surprise falls in love with, a girl called Merle. But almost immediately we, the readers, realise that there is more than one mystery in this strange placedeliver herself. Why are the inhabitants so overwhelming in their welcome to him? What makes it worse is happening on the other half of man who requested the island? And, most worryingly, why is Eric sleeping so muchbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and forgetting his reason for coming to the island a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for hours on end? From the very first page there are signs of menace making her find and disorientationdeliver such a large request, and at last Eric overcomes his torpor and comes to understand that something is badly wrong. He endures terrible nightmares, full Tess sticks post-it notes on each of blood and violence, and at the lastbooks, just as scribbled with the islanders drag him to a stone table ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to kill reach him, things become clear in his mindof course. He has been here Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off beforedelivering them. In factNo harm done… Or it would be, he has been here many, many timesif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620098</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterPhilip Reeve|title=Wolves Utterly Dark and the Face of Mercy Falls: Foreverthe Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Polly Conway is having to deal with rather In a lot at the momentword, rich. Her mum has got There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a fabulous new job – peculiar island called Wildsea, British but it’s in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dadway west, her new stepmother who she can’t standbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and her baby brother who’s just annoying. Depressed by the problems in her lifesea-witches, she ignores her dad’s rules and turns to legends of the friend2friend website Dark family that has to find comfortkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. As she gets increasingly addicted The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from thesiteHidden Lands, she starts his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to lose focus on worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the important things in her life – including her family sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Star Makers’ new productionworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn JamesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=MistJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On moving to middle schoolJulia, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular lockerour pre-buddy Amandateen heroine, and embarrassed by has been packed off with her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool parents and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling to cope with their cat from the new arrivals at her family homein SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Avain the far NE of the Scottish islands. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything Here be Vikings, help arrives in the form that kind of a strange key with her name on itScottish island. As she opens a door Dad is going to find out about be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her pastcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, Elise starts to realise that well, she will be homesick and alone – until she can take control of her futuresuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellJonathan Stroud|title=Sektion 20The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the early 1970s Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and Alex is living with his family in East Berlinshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca ColaBut then she meets Albert Browne, fashion a dark boy with dark powers and rock musica darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time is spent at school listening they plan to flee to endless lectures on the superiority mythical Free Isles of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinksLondon Lagoon. Together, even when he's with his family they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and closest friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come to all the attention horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the StasiFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the state security service. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>1406394815
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|genre=Teens
|summary=When Jessica Hart and her friends end up at Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a new school"real" family, she decides is used to throw not being a party to get to know some of the cute guys therepriority in people's lives. It seems like But when she defends a great idea at the random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time – but writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it will have far-reaching consequences which will mean their senior year will be nothing like they expectedthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444901303</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ransom RiggsT L Huchu|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his grandfather's death, sixteen year old Jacob Ropa Moyo is sent to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a monster bit of some description - just like Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the weird dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and unusual things her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the old man used to tell him about - when he discovered ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the bodycity's children. As you can imagineSoon, everyone thinks Jacob Ropa is crazy. But then events set in motion pulled into the search for a visit to the island off missing boy at the coast request of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew his dead mother. She will end up, discovering an occult library andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers realise that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along..world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittKristen O'Neal|title=Sean Griswold's HeadLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When she finds out her dad was Having recently been diagnosed with MS some months agochronic Lyme disease, but no-one had felt Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the need to tell rest of herlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Payton's world starts an online support group where she talks to fall aparta bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. So much soThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, that when while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her new counselor suggests picking something as closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a Focus Object to write aboutwhile, she Priya becomes concerned. She decides to go for it, steal her parents' car and chooses Sean Griswolddrive to Brigid's headhouse to check up on her. But what starts off as she doesn't expect to find there is a supposedly academic study of werewolf in the said head becomes something rather more interesting, as she realizes basement – and for that Sean himself might werewolf to be someone worth focusing onthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712059X</amazonuk>1683692349
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