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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShineMax Boucherat|authortitle=Candy GourlayThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We 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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the 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 her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''This is not a ghost story even though there are plenty I can hear the song of ghosts in itthe sea. And it's not a horror story though some people might be horrified. It's not a monster story eitherThe call of the deep, even though there is a monster the answering beat in it and that monster happens to be memy heart.''
Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesn't get out muchRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She lives with Mira, like her mother before her father, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a doctortrap to end the wrecking, and their housekeeper-come-governess in they capture the remote island community of Mirasol. It's always raining on Mirasol. And itleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a superstitious placefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. People believe that if With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the rain stopssmuggler's territory, evil will comeMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. And they also believe that monsters can stop |isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the rainSun|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Monsters like RosaLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BloodtideAlexia Casale|authortitle=Melvin BurgessSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a postlife-apocalyptic futurechanging disability too, half but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the mists middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes pity stares, and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London desperate to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as get back to surround its borders with released a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there'halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with s a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city wallsnew (cute!) boy in school, Val Volson has risen her music A Level performance piece to try 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 sort out , and just the day to day traumas of all the city and prosperchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night WitchesSimon Fox|authortitle=LJ AdlingtonDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary=Rain Aranoza comes Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from Rodina. It's a nation of science secret place, and rationalityjoin him on the run. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And They get together, in but barely begin to smell the tradition whiff of all authoritarian societiesSouthern trains when the father is arrested, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of leaving Archie on the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by late express to Brighton, toting a network known as Aura tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae bearer of a whole heap of their daily livesquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreview|title=Blinded by the LightFrontpage|author=Joe KiplingLex Croucher|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summarytitle=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich Gwen and privileged Alpha. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential Art Are Not in the Light, the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Testing |author=Joelle CharbonneauLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Who knew that what I'll break from really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my usual reviewing style of starting off with spirits in a plot summary heremost delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, for reasons which will shortly become obviousmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and just start by saying is in love with Bridget (the kingdom''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian reads only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private 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 wonderful narratorway in which they can both truly be themselves, which I'd definitely recommend.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|title=The Phenomenals: A Game of GhoulsFrontpage|author=F E Higgins|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, I’ve jumped right in here – going straight to the second book in a series. As it happens, A Game of Ghouls is not a bad one to do that with. You’re never left confused because you haven’t read the first one (A Tangle of Traitors) because they keep you up to date enough for it to be a fairly good stand alone. You want to find the first one though, because if it’s going to be anywhere near as good as this one it’s a book you want to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507567</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Up In Flames|author=Nicole WilliamsPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elle Montgomery has spent her whole life doing exactly what she's supposed to - what everyone else thinks When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is how she should live her lifemurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Outside Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, Elle is smiling politely and perfectly happy with her perfect-fit boyfriendeach could have been there at the time of his murder. Inside But who killed him, Elle is screaming for and why, and if any of the chance boys are innocent, will they be able to do something a bit wild.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Anne PerryKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one of the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically and mentally. Death seemed inevitable for manySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what why is one more death among the multitudeshe running around London committing a series of robberies? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but And how did he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more learn to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Moose Baby|author=Meg Rosoff|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thing. Instead of giving birth crack safes? You'll have to a normal little girl as she was expecting, she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Section. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births wait to human mothers. For some unexplained reason, a number of women have given birth get an answer to animals - mostly moosethe second question because I avoid spoilers. Jess feels confident she can cope with But I'll answer the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthoodfirst one: for his grandmother. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Christoph MarziDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Jude 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 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 primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can see form, the deadtalk in class and out often turns to sex. His life has changed immeasurably since Which is confusing for Ant, as he saw doesn't know what his score is, where his first ghost about six months agoachievements in that regard lie. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his fatherhad a casual relationship, who works away a lot. Insteadsecret one, for several months now, he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with and so has effectively progressed up the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people ladder headed by ex-rock star Gaskell'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than And that's mostly because of who he does 's been having the relationship and the sex with the living. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Dead BrigadeStitched Up|author=James LovegroveSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a standstill fashion designer. Life in the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the massacre of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have smartly-dressed man and woman came to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already dead. Hammond has been given the task of training village to offer Hahn a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to pain, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuriesbe missed. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, Some money changed hands and meant Hanh was on the mini-bus to be incapable of independent thoughtHanoi. However Only, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go Hanh and the way they are meant other girls were not going to. These are not mindless killing machines; work in a part of them is still humanshop, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have legs? The ones with the luxury of deathartfully-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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Leon LeysonNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is Brave. Charlene, the memoir 'heroine' of one of the youngest this piece is extremely hard for some people on Oskar Schindler's famous list to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War II. It opens between the warsmultiple homes and schools, with Leonshe's family living fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in the small Polish town of Narewka. There wasnher son Blake't much money but everyone was happy. Leons old room while he's father moved to Krakow at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in the hopes need of making a better life and when Leon and his siblings eventually join himcomfort blanket, you can feel might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a little boy new store detective, and then force people to the big citygive 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 to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)Ann Sei Lin|authortitle=Michelle PaverRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A year 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 [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finishedEmpire. He asks her to come with him, we rejoin Hylas who to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has been capturedknown. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, enslavedbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to work in flee out into the copper mines on Thalakrea, a volcanic islandworld. The Crows still have She joins Himura aboard the dagger of prophecyOrihime, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas a sky-ship whose express purpose is determined to escape and find his missing sisterhunt down shikigami, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cruel SummerMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=James DawsonWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshaw's suicideMeet Fitz, her friends get together in a secluded Spanish villayoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. After a year apartLockdown is only just over, there's a lot to talk about - but the elephant in the room is Janey's death. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced she killed herself - and when someone else from their old school turns up, they seem he should be free to confirm his suspicions. Except very quicklydo what he wants, there's another dead body, and Ryan and his friends need to get rid of the corpse. Of course, go where there's a murder victimhe wants and with whom he wants, there's also a murderer - who can but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it be? Will anyone stay alive when he talks to find out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Siege and Storm|author=Leigh Bardugo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=On the run from the Darklinghis best friend, Alina and Mal are together at lastCassie. But when he emerges from the Shadow Fold with They were half of a horrific new powerdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Darkling enigmatic – saying she could prove himself to be more dangerous than ever. Alina will be torn between her growing power, hear a subhuman hum coming from the man she loves, and her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming storm?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even peopleearth. But she knows that Is this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep connected with one of her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though eco- should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 warrior parents and attend saying the local high school. Not expecting to like anything about end of the place, world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's surprised to dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find herself immediately falling for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlin. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in out the waytruth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF Said|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But one nightWell, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and not when Cassie has gone missing he can feel a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched't. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship, on the run, and in the middle 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 father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin BenwayTori Bovalino|title=Spy SocietyThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spy, just like Working all summer in her parents. Well, not quite like her parents - sheboarding school's far better than either at cracking safes. They've always worked as library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a team, though, so when the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her request for over a solo run, hundred books that shehas to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's not sure what to expectheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Thrown into high school As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the first time everbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's got a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivierre never meant to reach him, stop a security leakof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and get outthen take them all off before delivering them. Making friends with Jesse is easy. ItNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's the getting out witout anyone getting their heart broken which might be tought delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116743</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flappers: DivaPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Jillian LarkinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Clara Knowles and Lorraine Dyer are both devastated by Marcus Eastman's upcoming weddingIn a word, rich. Can either There is certainly an abundance of them stop it? Meanwhileriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, Gloria Carmody is socialising with business mogul Forrest HamiltonBritish but way west, as befits an icon of flapperdombeyond the Scillies. But There are troll people on it's not just pleasure for Gloria , and sea- if she can get some information about Forrest 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. The current Darks are the FBIWatcher, her future with boyfriend Jerome could be a bright one. If notAndrewe, she could be back 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 who has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts keep notes of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by activity from the Darkness herselfHidden Lands, she his brother Will who lives her life in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not London with too much science in his head to alienate her only friendworry about such local yokel superstitions, and persuade her father that sheAndrewe's not insane - but foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when school bully Justin gets murderedAndrewe Dark drowns himself, she's left trying to solve the crime both his sullen brother and also cope with his curious ward are thrust into the realisation she's becoming attracted to himworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Black Dragon (Mysterium)Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Julian SedgwickJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Danny is Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a fish out summer, in the far NE of water at his public schoolthe Scottish islands. Half ChineseHere be Vikings, he's still a newcomer after over a year, having grown up in a circus called The Mysteriumthat kind of Scottish island. Those days behind himDad is going to be automating the lantern, he delights at the chance to go to Hong Kong with which is his guardian aunt Lauraspecialist thing, even while she's there working as an undercover journalist, investigating nightmarish Triad gangsmum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Once in that exotic world it's a quandary to know just what side who is onAnd Julia, what with corrupt cropswell, people who are not as they appear she will be homesick and more alone but what on earth is the connection between all this and the dark, disastrous ending the circus suffered?until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913700</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Cristin TerrillThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Em Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Finn are being held prisoner by Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Doctor. They never see each Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other but are able outlaws to communicate through the cell wallkeep herself alive. This is But then she meets Albert Browne, a blessing but also dark boy with dark powers and a curse: darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they can each hear must brave man-eating wildlife, the interrogations cannibalistic Tainted and torture meted out all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the other. Neither talks Free Isles, but how much can will they be any more accepted there than they take? And then Em finds a note hidden are in her cell. It's from her future self and it tells the rest of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past to try to put things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love in RevolutionMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=B R CollinsSlingshot|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Everyone in her village - in an unnamed Basque country - loves pello and Esteya is no differentGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. It's the national sport and its heroes are national heroes. That the holder As a secret illegitimate daughter of the Kings Cup hails from her village is a source of pride to Esteya, her twin brother Martin, and everyone else. Except older brother Leon. So when the Bull comes home for man with a visit"real" family, everyone she is excited. And when a young peasant boy challenges him used to not being a game, everyone laughspriority in people's lives. And But when the peasant she defends a random boy winsin her class with her slingshot, everyone her simple existence is shocked and discomfited. Except Leon. Leon, a communist sympathiser, sees it as a symbolic victory of the peasant over the dissolute regime of the Kingchanged for good. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mitch Benn|title=Terra|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Terra is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not only because No longer can she has vowels spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her name. You see, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbp, life now has a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parents, the Bradshaws, on the planet Rrth boy in a moment of unthinking philanthropyit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ThemT L Huchu|authortitle=L A WeatherlyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Kylie Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and her family had a prosperous upper middle class life - until bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the day Kyliedead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's stepfather nearly beat her been using it to death. Forced to flee, they ended up in a sheltersupport not only herself, but her younger sister and are now trying to start life over with a very different set of circumstancesher aging grandmother. KylieHowever, there's Mom is working and exhaustedan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, they live in a run down flat, and targeting the money barely stretches to covering groceries - and as Kyliecity's little sister keeps reminding her - this children. Soon, Ropa is all her faultpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. Pressures build She will end up with strange phone callsdiscovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are Will she find the usual difficulties of starting a new school missing children and trying bring an end to make friends.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Winter DamageKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Natasha CarthewLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''The moor , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and all it had got was help each other out there waiting for , while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her in closest friends—doesn't respond to the dark, chat for a cold rock thingwhile, hard as nails.'' But Ennor doesn't see another choicePriya becomes concerned. She has decides to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with steal her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennorparents's mother has been gone for years - after they lost the farm car and Ennordrive to Brigid's father turned house to drugs, she turned to religion. And leftcheck up on her. But now the country is falling to pieces. There are riots. Therewhat she doesn's no money t expect to be earned. School has closed. Father find there is getting iller. They're behind on a werewolf in the rent basement – and eviction is looming. The social are threatening for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to take Trip away. There's nothing else online for itthe past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|title=The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After Iris|author=Natasha Farrant|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A few years after Iris's death, her twin sister Bluebell is still getting used Move on to life without her. She's also having to cope with her parents' frequent absences, the new au pair, and the cute boy who's just moved in next door. Can she solve all her problems? And are the rest of her family coping with Iris being gone any better than she is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571278213</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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