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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreview|title=BloodtideFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessMax Boucherat|ratingtitle=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists The Last Life of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of the city and prosper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ AdlingtonLori Mills
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|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a nation of science blanket fort, she has one main intention, and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. Andthat is to log on to Voxminer, in the tradition of all authoritarian societiesworld-building, it critter-collecting game that is ruthless a hit in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witchesLori's world. Rodina is controlled by But first Lori has a network known as Aura tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Aura encourages denunciationsthen she finds something even more spooky. Control is enforced by For the Scrutiners server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Aura instructs citizens her safe place in even the minutiae of their daily lives. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Blinded by the LightRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Joe KiplingCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Jude ''I can see hear the song of the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away a lotsea. Instead, he spends most The call of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with deep, the livinganswering beat in my heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxHarry Allen|authortitle=Leon LeysonChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
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|summary=This is the memoir of one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War II. It opens between the wars, with Leon's family living Ra Eun Seo lives in the small Polish a North Korean town of Narewkaand she is a talented singer. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy. Leon's father moved Life is hard and food is difficult to Krakow in the hopes of making a better life come by, so Seo and when Leon her friends Nari and his siblings eventually join himMin go foraging every evening, you can feel looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the wonder meagre rations of a little boy new to the big cityrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)Alexia Casale|authortitle=Michelle PaverSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=A year after the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslaved, and forced It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to work in the copper mines on Thalakrea, navigate a volcanic island. The Crows still have the dagger of prophecy, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas is determined to escape and find his missing sisterlife-changing disability too, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Cruel Summer|author=James Dawson|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshawthat's suicide, her friends get together what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apart, there's a lot dance performance that was going to talk about - but the elephant in the room is Janey's deathchange her life. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced But she killed herself - and when someone else from their old school turns upcomes back fighting, they seem desperate to confirm his suspicions. Except very quickly, there's another dead bodyavoid the pity stares, and Ryan and his friends need desperate to get rid of the corpseback to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Of course, where Meanwhile there's a murder victimnew (cute!) boy in school, there's also a murderer - who can it be? Will anyone stay alive her music A Level performance piece to try to find sort out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Siege , and Storm|author=Leigh Bardugo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=On just the run from day to day traumas of all the Darkling, Alina and Mal are together challenges her body continues to throw at last. But when he emerges from the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, the Darkling could prove himself her to be more dangerous than evernavigate. Alina will be torn between her growing power So even though she can't dance anymore, the man might she loves, and be able to sing her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming stormway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreview|title=Hold Your BreathFrontpage|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=New England Rocks|author=Christina Courtenay|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=After being expelled from her boarding school, Rain Mackenzie gets sent abroad to New England, to live with her parents and attend the local high school. Not expecting to like anything about the place, she's surprised to find herself immediately falling for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlin. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in the way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF SaidDeadlock
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|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But Late one nightGraham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he can feel fetch something from a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakessecret place, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship, join him on the run. They get together, and in but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of a warzone. Everything Lucky has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is raging, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his Southern trains when the father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Benway|title=Spy Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spyarrested, just like her parents. Well, not quite like her parents - she's far better than either at cracking safes. They've always worked as a team, though, so when leaving Archie on the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her for a solo run, she's not sure what late express to expect. Thrown into high school for the first time everBrighton, she's got toting a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivier, stop a security leaktin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and get out. Making friends with Jesse is easy. It's the getting out witout anyone getting their heart broken which might be toughbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116743</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreview|title=The Flappers: DivaFrontpage|author=Jillian LarkinLex Croucher|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|summary=Clara Knowles Gwen and Lorraine Dyer are both devastated by Marcus Eastman's upcoming wedding. Can either of them stop it? Meanwhile, Gloria Carmody is socialising with business mogul Forrest Hamilton, as befits an icon of flapperdom. But it's not just pleasure for Gloria - if she can get some information about Forrest for the FBI, her future with boyfriend Jerome could be a bright one. If not, she could be back Art Are Not in jail in the blink of an eye...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Black Dragon (Mysterium)|author=Julian SedgwickLove
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|summary=Danny is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a fish out of water at his public school. gay Arthurian RomCom? Half ChineseBut honestly, he's still a newcomer after over a year, having grown up it lifted my spirits in a circus called The Mysteriummost delightful way. Those days behind himIn this story, he delights at the chance Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to go to Hong Kong their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with his guardian aunt Laura, even while sheBridget (the kingdom's there working as an undercover journalist, investigating nightmarish Triad gangsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Once in that exotic world it's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a quandary to know just what side who is onboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, what creating the subterfuge of falling in love with corrupt cropseach other, people who when really they are not enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they appear and more – but what on earth is the connection between all this and the darkcan both truly be themselves, disastrous ending the circus sufferedor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913700</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysNick Brooks|authortitle=Cristin TerrillPromise Boys
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|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner by When the Doctor. They never see each other but are able to communicate through principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the cell wallpolice station as suspects. This is Each, seemingly, has a blessing but also a curse: they can grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each hear could have been there at the interrogations time of his murder. But who killed him, and torture meted out to the other. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in her cell. It's from her future self why, and it tells if any of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past boys are innocent, will they be able to try to put things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Love in RevolutionA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=B R CollinsKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
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|summary=Everyone in her village - in an unnamed Basque country - loves pello and Esteya is no different. ItSolomon Klyne isn's the national sport and its heroes are national heroes. That the holder of the Kings Cup hails from her village t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a source series of pride robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to Esteya, her twin brother Martin, and everyone elsethe second question because I avoid spoilers. Except older brother Leon. So when But I'll answer the Bull comes home first one: for a visit, everyone is excited. And when a young peasant boy challenges him to a game, everyone laughs. And when the peasant boy wins, everyone is shocked and discomfitedhis grandmother. Except Leon. Leon, a communist sympathiser, sees it as a symbolic victory of the peasant over the dissolute regime of the King. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815702</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=TerraDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Science FictionTeens |summary=Terra Ant is different 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, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from everyone else on Fnrr the football team, and not two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only because she has vowels a single-sex school can form, the talk in her nameclass and out often turns to sex. You seeWhich is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrrwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Her adoptive father (LbbpHe's had a casual relationship, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parentssecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the Bradshawsladder headed by 'experienced', on the planet Rrth but whether that's set in a moment of unthinking philanthropystone, he can't be sure. If only And that's mostly because of who he'd done a little more thinking s been having the relationship and little less philanthropy…the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=ThemStitched Up|author=L A WeatherlySteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Kylie and Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family had a was happy, if not prosperous upper middle class life , so when the smartly- until dressed man and woman came to the day Kylie's stepfather nearly beat her village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to deathbe missed. Forced Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to flee, they ended up in a shelterHanoi. Only, Hanh and are now trying the other girls were not going to start life over with work in a very different set of circumstances. Kylie's Mom is working and exhaustedshop, they live were to work in virtual slavery in a run down flat, an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the money barely stretches to covering groceries legs? The ones with the artfully- placed rips and as Kyliedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's little sister keeps reminding quite possible that Hanh and her co- this is all her fault. Pressures build up with strange phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found workers made them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Winter DamagePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Natasha CarthewNeedle|rating=53
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|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'The moor of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and all it had got was readers both. Kicked out there waiting for her in the darkof multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a cold rock thingpleasant yoga tutor, hard as nails.Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' But Ennor doesn't see another choices at uni. She has to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and autistic brotherthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, Tripas Charlene is a wonder knitter, in and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennoryounger sister she's mother has been gone for years - after they lost the farm allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and Ennor's father turned then force people to drugsgive her two days off school, when she turned to religionshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And leftthen... But now the country well, what exactly happens is falling not for me to pieces. There are riots. There's no money say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on the rent and eviction is looming. The social are threatening to take Trip away. There's nothing else for it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After IrisAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Natasha FarrantRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=A few years after Iris's deathKurara 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 twin sister Bluebell that she is still getting used a Crafter like him, someone with the power to life without form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her. She's also having to cope come with her parentshim, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won' frequent absencest have any say in the matter, because the new au pairMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the cute boy who's just moved in next doorworld. Can she solve all her problems? And are She joins Himura aboard the rest Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of her family coping with Iris being gone any better than she is?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571278213</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreview|title=Jon For ShortFrontpage|author=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir Stankovic|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The book begins with a horrible dream of dark footsteps and the flash of knife blade plunging down again and again. Waking up brings no respite to the terror or pain for Jon, because his waking world is even more frightening than the nightmare. He wakes up in a darkened hospital room. There are now windows to the outside, only a small frosted glass window to the hall which lets in a tiny bit of light. The nurses seem cruel and angry. They insist on calling him Joe, No matter how often he tells them his name is Jonathan - Jon for short. The nightmare comes again and again. It starts out exactly the same, but each time it goes on just a little longer and Jon sees a bit more. The dream is not the only cause of his terror. Each time when he wakes up, another part of his body has been removed. Piece by piece he is being dismembered. Soon there will be nothing left of him - and no one will tell him why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121958</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMarcus Sedgwick|title=All The Truth That's In Me|author=Julie BerryWrath|rating=34.5
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|summary=Four years agoMeet Fitz, Judith and another girl disappeareda young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Two years agoLockdown is only just over, Judith came back aloneand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and unable with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to speakhis best friend, Cassie. Shunned by most They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the people in enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her closeeco-knit community, warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can she Fitz find her voice to save those around herout the truth? Well, and herself?not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670786152</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RithmatistTori Bovalino|authortitle=Brandon SandersonThe Devil Makes Three
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|genre=teensTeens|summary=Rithmatists - those with special talents who defend ordinary people against wild chalklings - must study and train hard at Working all summer in her boarding school 's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to create the defenses , lines, and chalklings they'll use do — especially when they get she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to Nebrask, deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the frontlinebooks: Mr Birch. JoelThe boarding school's headmaster, and a pupil at one man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such schoola large request, Armedius, studies harder than anyone else. He has a superb grasp Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the strategies involved and knows he would be an asset out at books, scribbled with the front. But Joel isn't a Rithmatist at allugliest insults she can think of. They're chosen in a special ceremonynever meant to reach him, and Joel was passed byof course. Now, as just an ordinary student at Armedius, he sneaks in Her plan is to join the Rithmatics students whenever possible. That seems get her anger out like this, and then take them all he can do - until Rithmatics students start disappearingoff before delivering them. Could JoelNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's lack of ability keep him safe, and therefore allow him to help solve the mystery?t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009532</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heart-shapedPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Siobhan ParkinsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ok. Before I even start reviewingIn a word, I need to explain just how much I loved this bookrich. It's the companion to There is certainly an earlier abundance of riches in this story from Siobhan Parkinsonset on a peculiar island called Wildsea, ''Bruised''British but way west, over beyond the same timeframeScillies. There are troll people on it, and following a supporting character whose story is intimately connectedsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Before I'd read The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to the end keep notes of activity from the first chapter of ''Heart-shaped''Hidden Lands, which is all of two-and-a-half pages long, I'd fallen his brother Will who lives in love London with Annie. And I knew I couldn't bear too much science in his head to read her story without reading Jonoworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe'sfoundling daughter, in ''Bruised''who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, first. So I rushed orff to Amazon both his sullen brother and downloaded his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it to my Kindle. You might or not find that particularly surprising, but it is. I review books. I hardly ever buy books because I have a pile of advance copies shouting ''My turn! My turn!'' whenever I look their way. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903608</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dangerous GirlsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Abigail HaasJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her friends went their cat from the family home in SW England to Aruba be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the Spring Break far NE of all Spring Breaksthe Scottish islands. These are privileged kids from an exclusive private school Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. They have plenty of money and they intend Dad is going to party hard before college beckons. It's a tight groupbe automating the lantern, but no-one which is tighter than Anna and Elisehis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. They have been inseparable since Elise rescued Anna from a high school bully. But now Anna also has Tate and this is a first love affair that consumes all And Julia, well, like a fire. Anna is beginning to find it difficult to balance these two intense relationships she will be homesick and alone – until she is hoping that this holiday will make everything great againsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119149</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The hero Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of this long the Surviving Towns and engrossing book is a boy Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of twelveBritain, orphanedrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, lonely a dark boy with dark powers and unloveda darker past. He spends With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedLondon Lagoon. Together, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old they must brave man who sets him on -eating wildlife, the path to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with cannibalistic Tainted and all the traditions horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the genreFree Isles, this path but will they be fraught with fear, danger and loss.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brooklyn GirlsMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Gemma BurgessSlingshot|rating=4.53|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=22-year-old Pia Keller Gracie Welles has screwed up againresigned herself to being lonely. She should be living the dream, sharing As a secret illegitimate daughter of a Brooklyn townhouse man with her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her getting sacked from class with her new job. After hearing thisslingshot, her parents are ready to summon her to live with them abroadsimple existence is changed for good. They clearly don't think No longer can she's mature enough to look after herself - can spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she prove them wrong?never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CarnabyT L Huchu|authortitle=Cate SampsonThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sarah's mother was murdered Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Sarah found a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the bodydead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. AgonisinglyEver since she dropped out of school, she didn't even realise she'd found the body at first - Sarah thought s been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her mother was asleep on the sofaaging grandmother. But she wasn't. Borys - SarahHowever, there's sister Judean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's boyfriend - has been accused children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of the murder his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the trial world of magic is coming up, with Sarah as a key witnessfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. A school counsellor, a lawyer Will she find the missing children and a police officer are all trying bring an end to prepare this evil, or will it claim her, but Sarah can't think about that. It's too dangerous. And she has more than a court case on her plate?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost StadiumKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Tom Palmer Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to read on his own. He loves terms with the short but exciting stories, and fact that she may be in constant pain for the easy-to-read textrest of her life. With this book thoughShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', the temptation an online support group where she talks to turn out the lights a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and read this help each other out loud by torch light was simply too much , while also providing an escape to resistjust joke and mess around. It begins as a boyWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's own adventure. Three boys, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with t respond to the perfect plan to start their summer holidays on chat for a high notewhile, Priya becomes concerned. Their local football club has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme She decides to get into the stadium one last time steal her parents' car and spend a night camping drive to Brigid's house to check up on the pitchher. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place But what she doesn't expect to camp out. It find there is difficult to get into, but once there, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone werewolf in the dark. There is only one problem. Places basement – and for that are very difficult werewolf to get into can also be very difficult the girl she has been talking to get out of..online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>1683692349
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