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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=Quantum Drop|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We're in London. The London that's left after the next financial crash devastates life for most people right across the world. Money is hard to come by, and most people survive on black market credits, supplied by the Betta. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows from them. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on the wrong side of the Betta and is taken out in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual world of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible and how to get justice. But the Drop is a dangerous, dangerous place...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144490082X </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian|title=Burn for Burn|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kat wants revenge on her ex!-best friend, who now taunts her whenever they cross paths. Lillia wants revenge on the boy who's started treating her little sister as more than a friend. Mary wants revenge on the boy whose cruelty led to her leaving Jar Island for years, only returning now. Individually, they may not be able to do much - but as a trio, they're sure they can wreak vengeance on those people who've wronged them. Just how far will these three 17Remove -year-olds go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442440759</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=CJ FloodMax Boucherat|title=Infinite SkyThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=As summer beginsWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Iris is finding that life can be quite trickybabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Her mother What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has packed up one main intention, and left that is to go travellinglog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Her father isn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't coping too well with having been abandoned by his wifefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Her brother, Sam, is in trouble at school For the server she and her bestie and in danger nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of going off the rails generallytampering. And Iris herself is feeling overtaken by When malevolent eyes spark up on her best friendphone screen, who is obsessed with boys and fashion while Iris prefers to run wild her safe place in the woods as she's always done. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707802X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerRachel Greenlaw|title=Etiquette Compass and EspionageBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is being sent to a finishing school. She's none too happy about it, until she gets there and finds there's rather more to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies I can hear the song of Quality than meets the eyesea. Because while her mother thought she was there to be finishedThe call of the deep, she's also going to learn just '''how''' to finish - the answering beat in my heart.'anything or anyone who needs finishing.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411585</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Erin Lange|title=Butter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bullied by his classmates at schoolRosevear, harassed by his parents at homea remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and weighing over 400 lbsplundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Butter really has very little is one of the seven who swim out to keep living forsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. And so he decides But when the Council Watch lays a trap to stopend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. LivingDesperate to save him from death, that Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is. But he’s not going secretive and with only coordinates to throw his not unsubstantial frame under a busguide her, or jump she sets off in search of a clifffamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He’s going With only nine days to do unearth what he does best – eatmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571294405</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Barrowman and Carole E BarrowmanHarry Allen|title=Bone Quill|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twins Matt and Em Calder have both their mother's Animare gift Children of bringing paintings to life and their father's telepathic Guardian gifts. This makes them an unknown to the Guardian Council - some of whom would have the twins bound, their powers trapped forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550316</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Naima B Robert|title=Black SheepSun

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Dwayne Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a badman – a wannabe rapper who hangs around with other gang members talented singer. Life is hard and doesn't see any future in education. Mishafood is difficult to come by, high-flying university-bound daughter of a local councillor, should have nothing in common with him, but when they meet there's an undeniable attractionso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and they start edible grasses to date in secretsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. Misha makes Dwayne want to be a better person – but with his old life tempting him back at every turn, can he make a break from it, or will he be drawn back in?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847802354</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meagan SpoonerAlexia Casale|title=Skylark|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark's city is run on magic - theySing if you Can've found a way to use it like electricity, it powers everything. This magic comes from teenagers. When a child comes of age they find their magical power, which is then harvested. Once this is done, your magical abilities have gone. However, there are stories about people who are Renewable, there magic just keeps coming back. Someone like this would be invaluable to society, and unfortunately for Lark, this is exactly what she is. Determined not to be a slave, and having been tortured by the government for her powers, she escapes (with the help of another Renewable who is a prisoner of the city) and leaves. She begins her journey to find others like her - Renewables - her only clue to 'follow the birds'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565563</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Disappearancest Dance

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'The Disappearancesre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' opens a year s what Ven is dealing with after Evie and Raffy escaped from collapsing on stage in the City. They have begun middle of a new dance performance that was going to change her life in the Settlement - Raffy farms and Evie sews and this kibbutz-like living is like balm in comparison . But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the ultra-controlledpity stares, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and itdesperate to get back to a life that's threatening to ruin the coupleas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's precious, a new-found peace. Back (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the City, Lucas is finding that switching off day to day traumas of all the System hasnchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't been the panacea he thought it would dance anymore, might she be. His people are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for so long. And able to make matters worse, the City's young people are disappearing. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura JarrattSimon Fox|title=By Any Other NameDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Everyone knows that Holly Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a new girl at schoolsecret place, and that her family are newly arrived in join him on the villagerun. None They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of them realise just how much Southern trains when the father is new about Hollyarrested, though - even her name. Last yearleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, she toting a tin his father was a witness determined to a crimekeep away from his colleagues, and she and her family have gone into witness protection, forcing them to start life afreshthe bearer of a whole heap of questions. Can they find happiness in a strange place, or will the nightmares that haunt Holly never leave her? Worse, are they safe, or could the nightmares come true?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256737</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia RayburnLex Croucher|title=Abyss: A Siren BookGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Vanessa is getting weaker and weakerWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, unwilling to use her powers of seduction to kill someone as she must do if she doesn't want to die herselfit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. When there are more deaths In this story, Gwen and Vanessa starts receiving anonymous messages from someone who seems Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to know her secrettheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, she must work out whether sheis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's ready to face only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her destinyprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of 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 way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571273963</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine LongshoreNick Brooks|title=GiltPromise Boys

|summary=Kitty Tylney has always followed her best friend CatWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Cat is larger than life Each, seemingly, full has a grudge of ridiculous plans some description against Principal Moore, and plots, each could have been there at the self-titled Queen time of Misrulehis murder. Cat wants nothing more than to live life at the Court But who killed him, and why, and if any of Henry VIII - wearing amazing clothes and enjoying the attention of handsome lords - and Kitty is happy boys are innocent, will they be able to play along.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116948</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oisin McGann1919635017|title=Rat RunnersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Nimmo lives in Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the futuresecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I's not a great place to be. Under constant surveillance by ll answer the WatchWorld network and its Robocop-style Safe-Guards, even the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from the authorities. Life is particularly difficult first one: for Nimmo. His parents are in prison and he must live below the radar of WatchWorld, amid the city's underground criminals. As you can imagine, Nimmo has skillshis grandmother. And this is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmo, together with sibling grifters Manikin and FX, and teen geek Scope, are to find the case or face Move-Easy's chief goons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Book 2)Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=The events of [[The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder by Marissa Meyer|last time]] are but media chatter as we start book two, with a French farmgirl being worried. Her grandmother has been missing for over Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a fortnightstandard school, and the police think there's no case for them is surprised to solve. Our girl find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is even more worried when her dadever learnt) has been restructured, long missing presumed drunkso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, turns up and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to ransack the farm looking for something that must have been left behind – something that her kidnappers needprimary school days together. Things might look As they're all fired up with , straining at the arrival of leash only a goodsingle-looking mansex school can form, the epitome of calm power talk in class and strong sensesout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, but while as he seems concerned and claims doesn't know what his innocencescore is, dad points him out as one of the gang behind the crimewhere his achievements in that regard lie. How much can he be trusted? Either wayHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, things must be investigated – and so our heroinehas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', Scarletbut whether that's set in stone, complete with her favourite riding-red hoodie, must go off into he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the unknown –alongside relationship and the man his fellow underground fighters call Wolf…sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340231</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kai Meyer1800901232|title=Arcadia BurnsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=If you haven't read Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] other girls were not going to work in this seriesa shop, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilersthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>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 felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah NaughtonPatrice Lawrence|title=The Hanged Man RisesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=The Wigman is at largeBrave. Charlene, murdering children. Youthe 'heroine'd think of this would be the first concern piece is extremely hard for Titus Adamssome people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, as heshe's only fifteenfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, his parents are incorrigible drunks and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he has 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a young sistercomfort blanket, Hannahyou might perhaps think, to look out for. But in London in and the creation of one such item is part of the late 1800splot here, there are more pressing concerns than serial killers on the loose. Like how to pay the rent. Like where the next meal as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is coming from. Like staying out making something full of the workhouse. Like keeping your love for her younger sister on the right side of the law. Thankfully, Titus has – a friend in Inspector Pilsbury. He doesn't arrest Hannah when younger sister she's caught allowed contact with pickpocketsno more. He feeds We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and keeps then force people to give her safe at the station until Titus comes 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 to collect herremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707864X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brandon SandersonAnn Sei Lin|title=Alcatraz versus the Evil LibrariansRebel Skies|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The celebration of Alcatraz's thirteenth birthday is quite Kurara has spent her entire life as a muted one – he gets servant on the Midori, a thirteen-year old parcel massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of sand in the postEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, claimed when a man named Himura arrives to be his inheritance from his birth parentstell her that she is a Crafter like him, and he burns down someone with the kitchen in his foster home power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the latest in a long line of disasters that have followed him in his short accident-prone lifeEmpire. Expecting He asks her to just be farmed out come with him, to more foster parents, instead he is leave the subject life of a battle between an armed man and a strange old fellow claiming to be Alcatraz's grandfatherdreary servitude that is all she has known. WhatWell, soon Kurara won's more t have any say in the guy says Al's abilities in breaking things are matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a Talent with monstrous paper spirit known as a capital Tshikigami, and the sands – that were stolen overnight – are a great threat she is forced to flee out into the world in . She joins Himura aboard the hands of Librarians (with Orihime, a capital L). Against all his own instincts, our antisky-hero goes with the latter man, finding his destiny in freeing the western world from the evil Librariansship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and telling us about it later as an adult in a most sardonic fashion.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006681</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenMarcus Sedgwick|title=Smuggler's KissWrath

|summary=Fifteen-year-old Isabelle has given up on lifeMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Walking into the seaLockdown is only just over, she is ready and he should be free to drown herself - until she changes her minddo what he wants, too late. But instead of drowningto go where he wants and with whom he wants, she's pulled but he cannot stop himself from the waves by smugglersputting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. While the crew aren't all happy that They were half of a couple of their men have jeopardized them by rescuing herdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she quickly becomes useful to them and starts to get could hear a thrill subhuman hum coming from helping to evade the Preventivesearth. Can she be happy in her new life, or will her dark secret catch up Is this connected with her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792806</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Hysteria|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Shunned by many one of her former friends after killing her boyfriend in selfeco-defence, and unable to remember warrior parents saying the details end of his death, Mallory feels haunted by his presence. When her parents send her to boarding school, will this be a chance for the world is already a fresh start, or will her past catch up with her even theredone deal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408834847</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Casey|title=How to Fall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Freya dies after a fall from a cliff. But was Is it an accident, suicide, or - horror some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of horrors - murder? Jess Tennant Is she just bonkers? And can't bear a mystery and so she sets Fitz find out to solve the mystery of the death of the cousin she never met. She meets with nothing but obstruction and hostilitytruth? Well, but perhaps itnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's little wondert. Not only is Jess a stranger in the parochial town of Port Sentinel, she is also the spitting image of Freya. She unsettles everyone for these reasons but, even despite them, Jess is an unsettling girl. She's blunt, direct, and she never takes no for an answer.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566039</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brodi AshtonTori Bovalino|title=EverboundThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=This Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the second in the [[Everneath by Brodi Ashton|Everneath]] trilogy and picks up two months from where the first book finishedlast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Two months ago What makes it worse is the Tunnels of man who requested the Everneath came to claim Nikki Beckett, to take her back to the Underworld where she would be used as a human battery foreverbooks: Mr Birch. That night, NikkiThe boarding school's boyfriendheadmaster, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice and took Nikki's place in the Everneatha man Tess hates. Now, Nikki is haunted by Jack, who appears in As a petty act of revenge for making her dreams every nightfind and deliver such a large request, lostTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, confused and slowly having scribbled with the life sucked out ugliest insults she can think of . They're never meant to reach him, of course. On the Surface everybody Her plan is blaming Nikki for Jack's disappearance; Jack's Mum has hired a Private Detective who's following Nikki aroundto get her anger out like this, convinced that she will and then take him to Jackthem all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074636</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerPhilip Reeve|title=The Twyning|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Efren is a nobody in the kingdom of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping of the king. His future changes in a moment as he's sent up to Utterly Dark and the human world to rescue him. Talking Face of humans, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left to scrape a living from London's streets. His affinity with animals gives him the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbon. The Doctor's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboy, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bobbie Pyron|title=The Dogs of WinterDeep

|summary=Little Mishka finds his cosy world turned upside down after In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the death of his beloved Babushka InaScillies. Unable to copeThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, his desperate mother finds solace in and legends of the arms of an abusive, alcoholic boyfriend Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and things go their monster approaching from bad to worseeven further west, where no ship dare sail. When his mother mysteriously disappearsThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, five year old Mishka flees who has to the heart keep notes of activity from the cityHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, where he joins who washed up with a gang out of street childrenthe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, begging both his sullen brother and stealing to survivehis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849395217</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The PreyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the ScientistsJulia, Geneour pre-teen heroine, Sissy has been packed off with her parents and the boys make their way down cat from the river and arrive at the Mission. Food is abundantfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the place is peaceful, and far NE of the Elders promise them a trip on the next train to CivilisationScottish islands. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe it Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. But it's soon apparent that the Mission Dad is not all it seems and Gene begins going to wonder if they haven't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find out a great deal more about be automating the Scientist - he developed the Originlantern, a cure for vampirism - understanding which is his plans is as frustrating as ever. And with the vampires coming ever closerspecialist thing, even while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Mission itselfelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, and the Elders making moves of their ownwell, time is running out she will be homesick and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yelena BlackJonathan Stroud|title=Dance of ShadowsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa Scarlett McCain is just one an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of many new students at the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're all trying Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to become wander the best dancerwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she has her own reasons for being theremeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the schoolWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and she's determined they plan to find out what happened flee to Margaretthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Can she find out? And will Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin cannibalistic Tainted and incredibly intense Justinall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, help or hinder her searchbut will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CremerMercedes Helnwein|title=RiftSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=After Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a mysterious healer saved the life secret illegitimate daughter of Embera man with a "real" family, and her mother, when she was just is used to not being a baby, Ember was promised to the mysterious order Conatus. Itpriority in people's lives. But when she defends a debt random boy in her father class with her slingshot, her simple existence is not happy about paying - determined to see his younger daughter married to changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a suitable husband, he tries everything boy in his power to stop Ember joining the order of knightsit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411402</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz BankesT L Huchu|title=IrresistibleThe Library of the Dead|rating=24.5|genre=Teens|summary=After finishing her GCSEs, Mia gets Ropa Moyo is a job at Radleigh Castleghostalker, working as using Zimbabwean magic (and a waitressbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. She quickly meets fellow worker DanEver since she dropped out of school, who she likes's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is he pulled into the search for a missing boy for her - or would she be better off with Jamie, son at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the owners world of magic is far bigger and all-around arrogant idiotmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. IncrediblyWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it's a somewhat harder decision than that last sentence would suggest.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123388</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeKristen O'Neal|title=Hostage ThreeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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