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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=OstrichFrontpage|author=Matt GreeneMax Boucherat|rating=5|genretitle=General Fiction|summary=[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece of praise it received, as a children's novel with plenty to interest older readers and a wonderful way of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Boone. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narrator, Alex, has a brain tumour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Arclight|author=Josin L McQuein|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Many years into the future, after terrifying monsters called the Fade have taken over most Last Life of our world, the survivors have banded together in the refuge of the Arclight. With nowhere to go, they stay within their wall of light - until a teenage girl Marina comes out of the Dark and finds them. Marina, though, has lost her memory. What is her secret, why are the Fade taking such a special interest in her, and can she help her rescuers fight back against them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stay Where You Are And Then Leave|author=John BoyneLori Mills

|summary=Alfie is just five years old when We meet Lori on the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for a while and Alfiefirst evening she's mother reads them got the house to him. But then the letters grow miserable and frightening. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - but Alfie finds them anyway. And then the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told that his father is on a secret mission and can't write, but he sees through the lie immediately. And then, one day, a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened herself – no neighbour to his father. He's home from the front but he's pop in hospital, suffering from a condition nobody understood babysitter poorly, mother at the time: shell shock. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robyn Schneider|title=Severed Headswork, Broken Hearts|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ezra Faulkner thinks that everyone has a tragedy in their lifejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, something which will forever define youon her lonesome. His happens when he loses his girlfriend, his tennis ambitions, and his social life What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in one night after a car accident shatters his knee. Drawn back towards his old friend Toby - whose own tragedyblanket fort, years agoshe has one main intention, was and that is to catch a decapitated head log on a theme park rideto Voxminer, the world-building, forever dooming him to misfit status critter- he meets new girl Cassidy. With new friends around him and collecting game that is a potential new love, can Ezra rebuild his life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115461</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Paradise|author=Simone Elkeles|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Caleb Becker has spent the last year hit in juvie for hitting Maggie Armstrong in his car whilst drink drivingLori's world. He thinks getting out of jail is the But first step to things going back to normal, but he's about to learn exactly how much can change in Lori has a year and the terrible price of a secret within his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119033</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Summer of Telling Tales|author=Laura Summers|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Grace and Ellie are at the seaside with their mum. Theytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're not t find herself entirely on a holidayher own, though - they've escaped from their domineering and abusive fatherthen she finds something even more spooky. As For the two settle into a new school server she and her bestie and make new friends, Grace - who only ever speaks nobody else should be able to Ellie - meets someone she can be herself aroundenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, while Ellie reinvents herself as Elleand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a confident and popular girl instead of the shy and scared youngster she used to be. But can they ever be free of the shadow of her fatherturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848122314</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AntigoddessRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Kendare BlakeCompass and Blade

|summary=Mrs Tregarthur has assembled a very strange assortment of children for her hiking trip on Dartmoor. She seems to have collected the misfits, ''I can hear the trouble makers, and the unwanted. In other words, the children that will not be missed. This is song of course more than a simple day trip. Mrs Tregarthur has made a dreadful promise which can only be fulfilled by the childrensea. The children are more call of a handful than she expects though and fail to reach the cave as quickly as she would like. When an earthquake drives some of deep, the group into the cave for shelter the teacher shouts out the very strange words to Alvin: ''Keep answering beat in my promiseheart. Save him!'' Alvin soon has other things to worry about though as a cave-in leaves the group trapped. Eventually finding their way out on the other side, they find themselves in a primeval forest with no way back to their own homes or time. Survival will become a battle which not all of them will win, but their biggest danger will not be the cold, starvation or dangerous animals. It will be from the other children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957315546</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Under Attack|author=Jim Eldridge Rosevear, a remote and Dave Shepherd|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=My sons are army barmy as they saypartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in plundering the Barrington Stoke rangewrecks. The book reminded me a bit Mira, like her mother before her, is one of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing seven who swim out to survey the rescue, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story ruins – rescuing any survivors and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character developmenttreasure that lies within. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks But when the Council Watch lays a hospital repeatedly and trap to end the British Army comes to wrecking, they capture the rescueisland's leader and Mira's father. A very small child Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is shot secretive and the doctor elects with only coordinates to perform emergency surgery on guide her, she sets off in search of a kitchen table rather than waiting for family secret that lies buried deep in the helicopter sea. With only nine days to arriveunearth what might save her father, but as her journey takes her from the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next watched streets of foreign islands to the childheart of the smuggler's heart under the most desperate of circumstancesterritory, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army Mira must be able determined to stop at nothing to save the day?future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=GamerFrontpage|author=Chris BradfordHarry Allen|rating=5|genretitle=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Gamer'' is written for the child who would rather be in front of a console than reading book. Even the cover depicts action with a scene that changes to depict fighting if you tilt the book. This isn't to say it lacks depth. This has a well developed plot, and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used to the high adrenaline experience Children of a video game, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Have a Little Faith|author=Candy HarperSun

|summary=Faith has been moved into Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a different form talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to separate come by, so Seo and her from her friend Megsfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, as the teachers seem to think they're a bad combination. On the plus side, the school are bussing in cute boys looking for their choir - tree bark and Faith is ready edible grasses to get to know supplement the dreamy Finn a lot better. Until she realises he's singing a duet with her sworn enemy, meagre rations of rice and kimchi at leasthome. Can Faith get the boy? And will she be able to move back into the same form as Megs by impressing Miss Ramsbottom with her new found maturity?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078232</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherAlexia Casale|authortitle=Chris PriestleySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town with his mother. It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a happy life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the boy misses his father, middle of a sailor who left for the sea a year ago and died far from homedance performance that was going to change her life. He also dreams of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the sea pity stares, and of adventuredesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. So when his uncle comes Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to visitsort out, full of stories of faraway lands and treasure, he is entranced. He ignores just the warning from day to day traumas of all the pilot's sonchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. How could his uncle be the devil? And, despite his mother So even though she can's tearst dance anymore, he follows his uncle might she be able to sea. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShineSimon Fox|authortitle=Candy GourlayDeadlock

|summary=''This is not Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a ghost story even though there are plenty of ghosts gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in it. And it's not a horror story though some people might be horrifiedmost delightful way. It's not a monster In this story either, even though there is a monster in it Gwen and that monster happens Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be me.'' Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesn't get out much. She lives with her fathertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, a doctoryou see, and their housekeeper-come-governess is in love with Bridget (the remote island community of Mirasol. Itkingdom's always raining on Mirasolonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And it's then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a superstitious place. People believe that if the rain stops, evil will come. And boy they also believe that monsters can stop the rain. Monsters like Rosa. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic futurefind themselves becoming reluctant allies, half in creating the mists subterfuge 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 falling in love with released ''halfmen''each other, genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violencewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. With the population trapped inside the city walls But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Val Volson has risen to will they find a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing way in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people which they can break out of the city and prosper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. Andboth truly be themselves, in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by or are they destined to live a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of lie their daily whole lives. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=Blinded by the LightFrontpage|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=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 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 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>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=The Testing |author=Joelle CharbonneauPromise Boys

|summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style When the principal (headmaster) of starting off with Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a plot summary heregrudge of some description against Principal Moore, for reasons which will shortly become obviousand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian readwhy, with a wonderful narratorand if any of the boys are innocent, which I'd definitely recommend.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Phenomenals: A Game of GhoulsThief to Catch a Killer|author=F E HigginsKitt Townsend

|summary=Elle Montgomery has spent her whole life doing exactly what sheSolomon Klyne isn's supposed to - what everyone else thinks t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how she should live her lifedid he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Outside, Elle is smiling politely and perfectly happy with her perfect-fit boyfriend. Inside, Elle is screaming for the chance to do something a bit wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heroes (Most Wanted)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Anne PerryDifferent for Boys

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=Trench warfare 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 widely been acknowledged as restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the most soul destroying forms of combatfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It broke men physically As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and mentallyout often turns to sex. Death seemed inevitable Which is confusing for manyAnt, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one more death among , for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can not let this one go't be sure. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - And that's mostly because of who he was murdered 's been having the relationship and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this casethe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Moose BabyStitched Up|author=Meg RosoffSteve Cole

|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother Twelve-year- except for one thing. Instead of giving birth old Hanh wanted to be a normal little girl as fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was expectinghappy, if not prosperous, she ends up delivering so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectionjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-sapien births bus to human mothersHanoi. For some unexplained reason Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a number of women have given birth shop, they were to animals - mostly moosework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Jess You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? feels confident she can cope The ones with the trials artfully-placed rips and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her motherdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's disappointment quite possible that Hanh and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust toco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Christoph MarziNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Jude can see Brave. Charlene, the dead'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. His life Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has changed immeasurably since taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and become even further distanced from his fatherthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, who works away as Charlene is a lot. Insteadwonder knitter, he spends most and is making something full of his time in Highgate Cemetery love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone a store detective, and a circle of dead then force people headed by ex-rock star Gaskellto give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the living. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead BrigadeAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=James LovegroveRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career Kurara has been at spent her entire life as a standstill in servant on the years since he launched Midori, a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted massive dining hall floating in the massacre sky where soldiers of British soldiersthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Now However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that same officer she is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have a Crafter like him, someone with the power to worry about some idiot getting his men form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all killed - because they are already deadacross the Empire. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune He asks her to pain, disease and capable of fighting come with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learninghim, following instructions, and meant to be incapable leave the life of independent thoughtdreary servitude that is all she has known. HoweverWell, it soon becomes apparent that things donKurara won't always go have any say in the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still humanmatter, still because the soldier they once were, trapped within Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a decaying corpseshikigami, kept refrigerated until ready for and she is forced to flee out into the next missionworld. They have no lifeShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, nor do they have the luxury and a whole world of death.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Leon LeysonWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=This Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is the memoir only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one of hundred per cent the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Nazis during World War IIearth. It opens between Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the wars, with Leon's family living in end of the small Polish town world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of Narewka. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy. Leonmusic she's father moved to Krakow in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the hopes of making a better life and truth? Well, not when Leon and his siblings eventually join him, you Cassie has gone missing he can feel the wonder of a little boy new to the big city't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Michelle PaverThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=A year after Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has been captured, enslaved, and forced to work in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the copper mines on Thalakreabooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a volcanic islandman Tess hates. The Crows still have 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 books, scribbled with the dagger ugliest insults she can think of prophecy. They're never meant to reach him, so this evil clan is still in controlof course. Hylas Her plan is determined to escape get her anger out like this, and find his missing sisterthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slaversif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cruel SummerPhilip Reeve|authortitle=James DawsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshaw's suicideIn a word, her friends get together rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apartpeculiar island called Wildsea, there's a lot to talk about - British but way west, beyond the elephant in the room is Janey's deathScillies. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced she killed herself There are troll people on it, and sea- witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and when someone else their monster approaching from their old school turns upeven further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, they seem who has to confirm keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his suspicions. Except very quicklyhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, thereand Andrewe's another dead bodyfoundling daughter, and Ryan and his friends need to get rid who washed up out of the corpsesea one day eleven years ago. Of courseBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, where there's a murder victimboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, there's also a murderer - who can like it be? Will anyone stay alive to find out?or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege Kiran Millwood Hargrave and StormTom de Freston|authortitle=Leigh BardugoJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On the run from the DarklingJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Alina has been packed off with her parents and Mal are together at last. But when he emerges their cat from the Shadow Fold with family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a horrific new powersummer, in the Darkling could prove himself far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be more dangerous than everautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Alina And Julia, well, she will be torn homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between her growing powerthe Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man she loves-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and her patriotism all the horrors of post- can she survive apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the oncoming stormrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hold Your BreathMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Caroline GreenSlingshot

|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keysGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, phones, and even she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she knows defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that this strange ability can bring troubleshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missingusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she wants 's been using it to keep support not only herself, but her younger sister and her visions to herselfaging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. The images She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she sees wonever could't go away, though - should ve imagined. Will she risk humiliationfind the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or worse, by trying to find will it claim hertoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=New England RocksKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Christina CourtenayLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=2.5

|summary=After being expelled from 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 boarding schoollife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Rain Mackenzie gets sent abroad an online support group where she talks to New Englanda bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to live with her parents just joke and attend the local high schoolmess around. Not expecting When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to like anything about the placechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what shedoesn's surprised t expect to find herself immediately falling there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlinpast few months. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in the way?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF Said|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakes, 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, Move 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? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]