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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Susan CooperRachel Greenlaw|title=Ghost HawkCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as 'I am to say this - this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as wellcan hear the song of the sea. The book is more mature than her early workscall of the deep, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooperanswering beat in my heart.''s talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men|author=Derek Landy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Kingdom Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Wicked'' left seven who swim out to survey the magical world reeling ruins – rescuing any survivors and on the precipice of conflict, a conflict any treasure that erupts into full out war between Sanctuarieslies within. Although But when the Supreme Council has vastly superior numbers, Ireland is home Watch lays a trap to some of end the most powerful sorcerers in the worldwrecking, including they capture the legendary Dead Menisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, creating Mira makes a formula for endless violence. But this bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is no straightforward war. Friends secretive and former allies suddenly find themselves on opposing sides with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the conflict, and not everyone is prepared to follow orderssea. Then there is the threat of an army of Warlocks, gathering With only nine days to attack the mortal populationunearth what might save her father, and thereby reveal as her journey takes her from the magical population watched streets of foreign islands to the world. And despite Roarhaven being heart of the new site for the Irish Sanctuary, can its population, including the secretive Children of The Spidersmuggler's territory, really Mira must be trusted? And looming above all this chaos is determined to stop at nothing to save the greatest threat future of all: Darquesse. Valkyrie knows that she doesn't have any more second chances. If she succumbs to that sinister voice in her head, home and the lure of that incredible power, ones she will watch everyone she cares about die by her own handholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748920X</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HurtHarry Allen|authortitle=Tabitha SuzumaChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Matheo Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a golden boytalented singer. His family Life is wealthy hard and he wants for nothing. He goes to a prestigious private school. Oxbridge beckons. He food is a champion diver and a hot prospect for the upcoming Olympics. He moves in the most desirable circles. And he has a beautiful, hot girlfriend in Lola. Most boys would give their eye teeth difficult to be Matheo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300201</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Boy Meets Boy|author=David Levithan|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul is gaycome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and confident in his sexuality. With a lovingMin go foraging every evening, supportive family, he doesn't have looking for tree bark and edible grasses to hide his feelings. Life seems pretty good to him - but falling in love can change everythingsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007533039</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichAlexia Casale|authortitle=Matt GreeneSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=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.
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{{newreview
|title=Arclight
|author=Josin L McQuein
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Many It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years into the futurewithout suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after terrifying monsters called the Fade have taken over most of our world, the survivors have banded together collapsing on stage in the refuge middle of the Arclighta dance performance that was going to change her life. With nowhere But she comes back fighting, desperate to goavoid the pity stares, they stay within their wall of light - until and desperate to get back to a teenage girl Marina comes out of the Dark and finds themlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Marina, though Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, has lost her memory. What is her secretmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, why are and just the day to day traumas of all the Fade taking such a special interest in challenges her body continues to throw at herto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, and can might she help be able to sing her rescuers fight back against themway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405263946</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stay Where You Are And Then LeaveSimon Fox|authortitle=John BoyneDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alfie Late one night Graham Blake is just five years old when late back from his shift on the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from Georgie for a while secret place, and Alfie's mother reads them to join him. But then on the letters grow miserable and frighteningrun. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - They get together, but Alfie finds them anyway. And then barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told that his father is arrested, leaving Archie on a secret mission and can't write, but he sees through the lie immediately. And then, one daylate express to Brighton, toting a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened to tin his father. He's home was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the front but he's in hospital, suffering from bearer of a condition nobody understood at the time: shell shockwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn SchneiderLex Croucher|title=Severed Heads, Broken HeartsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ezra Faulkner thinks Who knew that everyone has what I really needed to read right now was a tragedy gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their lifemutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something which will forever define youthat Art discovers from her private diaries. His happens And then when he loses his girlfriendGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, his tennis ambitionscreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, and his social life in one night after a car accident shatters his kneewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Drawn back towards his old friend Toby - whose own tragedy But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, years ago, was to catch will they find a decapitated head on a theme park rideway in which they can both truly be themselves, forever dooming him or are they destined to misfit status - he meets new girl Cassidy. With new friends around him and live a potential new love, can Ezra rebuild his lifelie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115461</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ParadiseNick Brooks|authortitle=Simone ElkelesPromise Boys|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Caleb Becker has spent When the last year in juvie for hitting Maggie Armstrong in his car whilst drink driving. He thinks getting out principal (headmaster) of jail Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the first step to things going back to normalpolice station as suspects. Each, seemingly, but he's about to learn exactly how much can change in has a year grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the terrible price time of a secret within his familymurder.|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. They're not on a holiday But who killed him, though - they've escaped from their domineering and abusive father. As the two settle into a new school and make new friendswhy, Grace - who only ever speaks to Ellie - meets someone she can be herself around, while Ellie reinvents herself as Elle, a confident and popular girl instead if any of the shy and scared youngster she used to be. But can boys are innocent, will they ever be free of the shadow of her fatherable to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848122314</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Antigoddess1919635017|author=Kendare Blake|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than they used A Thief to be. In fact, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her and Hermes's body is eating itself. Literally. They are on Catch a road trip to find out exactly what it is killing the gods and to save themselves if they can. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Split SecondKiller|author=Sophie McKenzieKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Tregarthur's Promise
|author=Alex Mellanby
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mrs Tregarthur has assembled Solomon Klyne isn't a very strange assortment of children for her hiking trip on Dartmoor. She seems to have collected the misfitsbad lad, the trouble makers, and the unwanted. In other words, the children that will not be missed. This so why is of course more than a simple day trip. Mrs Tregarthur has made he running around London committing a dreadful promise which can only be fulfilled by the children. The children are more series of a handful than she expects though and fail robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to reach the cave as quickly as she would like. When get an earthquake drives some of the group into answer to the cave for shelter the teacher shouts out the very strange words to Alvin: ''Keep my promisesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Save him!'But I' Alvin soon has other things to worry about though as a cave-in leaves ll answer the group trappedfirst one: for his grandmother. 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Under AttackPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Jim Eldridge and Dave ShepherdDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=My sons are army barmy as they sayAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and have is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been begging for military stories restructured, so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit his desk is one of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books four with heroes blazing to both his best buddy from the rescuefootball team, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to be any character developmentprimary school days together. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a hospital repeatedly single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the British Army comes out often turns to the rescuesex. A very small child Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is shot and the doctor , where his achievements in that regard lie. elects to perform emergency surgery on He's had a casual relationship, a kitchen table rather than waiting secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the helicopter to arriveladder headed by 'experienced', but the Taliban havenwhether that's set in stone, he can't given upbe sure. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child And that's mostly because of who he's heart under been having the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all relationship and the while under heavy firesex with. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=GamerStitched Up|author=Chris BradfordSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=''Gamer'' is written for the child who would rather Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be in front of a console than reading bookfashion designer. Even Life in the cover depicts action rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a scene that changes job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to depict fighting if you tilt be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the book. This isn't mini-bus to say it lacks depthHanoi. This has a well developed plot Only, Hanh and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used other girls were not going to the high adrenaline experience of work in a video gameshop, but it has plenty they were to offer 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 legs? The ones with the child who loves books as wellartfully-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>1781121389</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Have a Little FaithPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Candy HarperNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Faith has been moved into a different form to separate her from her friend MegsBrave. Charlene, as the teachers seem 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to think theylike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she're s fostering with a bad combinationpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. On Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the plus sidecreation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, the school are bussing in cute boys for their choir - and Faith is ready to get to know the dreamy Finn making something full of love for her younger sister – a lot better. Until younger sister she realises he's singing allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a duet with store detective, and then force people to give her sworn enemytwo days off school, at leastwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Can Faith get the boy? And will she then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be able to move back into the same form as Megs by impressing Miss Ramsbottom with her new found maturity?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078232</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Chris PriestleyRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young boy lives in Kurara has spent her entire life as a harbour town with his mother. It's a happy life, but servant on the boy misses his fatherMidori, a sailor who left for massive dining hall floating in the sea a year ago and died far from home. He also dreams sky where soldiers of the sea Empire come to drink and of adventuremake merry between their conquests. So However, when his uncle comes a man named Himura arrives to visittell her that she is a Crafter like him, full of stories someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of faraway lands and treasure, he dreary servitude that is entrancedall she has known. He ignores Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the warning from Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the pilot's sonworld. How could his uncle be She joins Himura aboard the devil? AndOrihime, despite his mother's tearsa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, he follows his uncle to sea. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShineMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Candy GourlayWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''This is not Meet Fitz, a ghost story even though there are plenty young Scottish lad full of ghosts in itfrustration at himself. And it's not a horror story though some people might Lockdown is only just over, and he should be horrified. It's not a monster story eitherfree to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, even though there is a monster but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it and that monster happens when he talks to be mehis best friend, Cassie.'' Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesn't get out muchThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. She lives Is this connected with one of her father, a doctor, and their housekeepereco-come-governess in warrior parents saying the end of the remote island community world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of Mirasol. Itmusic she's always raining on Mirasol. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And it's a superstitious place. People believe that if can Fitz find out the rain stopstruth? Well, evil will comenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't. And they also believe that monsters can stop the rain. Monsters like Rosa. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreview|title=BloodtideFrontpage|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists 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>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Night Witches|author=LJ AdlingtonThe Devil Makes Three
|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. And, 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 a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Blinded by the Light
|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>
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{{newreview
|title=The Testing
|author=Joelle Charbonneau
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=IWorking all summer in her boarding school'll break from my usual reviewing style s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of starting off with revenge for making her find and deliver such a plot summary herelarge request, for reasons which will shortly become obviousTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, and just start by saying ''The Testing'scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They' re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is an interesting dystopian readto get her anger out like this, with a wonderful narratorand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, which Iif someone hadn'd definitely recommendt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Phenomenals: A Game of GhoulsPhilip Reeve|authortitle=F E HigginsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Once againIn a word, I’ve jumped right rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in here – going straight to this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the second book in a seriesScillies. As There are troll people on it happens, A Game and sea-witches, and legends of Ghouls is not a bad one the Dark family that has 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 watch for it to be a fairly good stand alonemagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. You want The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to find keep notes of activity from the first one thoughHidden Lands, because if it’s going his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to be anywhere near as good as this worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one it’s a book you want to readday eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330507567</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Up In FlamesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Nicole WilliamsJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Elle Montgomery Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has spent been packed off with her whole life doing exactly what she's supposed parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to - what everyone else thinks be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is how she should live her life. Outsidegoing to be automating the lantern, Elle which is smiling politely and perfectly happy with his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her perfect-fit boyfriendcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Inside And Julia, well, Elle is screaming for the chance to do something a bit wildshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heroes (Most Wanted)Jonathan Stroud|authortitle=Anne PerryThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the most soul destroying forms Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of combat. It broke men physically Britain, robbing banks and mentallyshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Death seemed inevitable for manyBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as releasea darker past. So what is one more death among With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsLondon Lagoon. Together, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire they must brave man- he was murdered eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forwardall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic they are in this case.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreview|title=Moose BabyFrontpage|author=Meg Rosoff|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thing. Instead of giving birth 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 to human mothers. For some unexplained reason, a number of women have given birth to animals - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope with the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthood. 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>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Memory: She's Dying to Remember|author=Christoph MarziSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jude can see the dead. His life Gracie Welles has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months agoresigned herself to being lonely. HeAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his fatherlives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, who works away a lother simple existence is changed for good. Instead, he spends most of his No longer can she spend her time writing novels in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and solitude, for her life now has a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the livingboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead BrigadeT L Huchu|authortitle=James LovegroveThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at Ropa Moyo is a standstill in the years since he launched ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in the massacre bit of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have Scottish pragmatism) to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already take messages from the dead. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune to pain, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These Edinburgh for their living dead are reanimated by nanobotsrelatives. They are capable Ever since she dropped out of learningschool, following instructionsshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and meant to be incapable of independent thoughther aging grandmother. However, it soon becomes apparent that things donthere't always go s an evil stalking the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part ruined streets of them is still humanEdinburgh, still targeting the soldier they once werecity's children. Soon, trapped within Ropa is pulled into the search for a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for missing boy at the next missionrequest of his dead mother. They have no life, nor do they have She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the luxury world of deathmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Leon LeysonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is 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 memoir rest of one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindlerher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s famous list , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War IIother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. It opens between When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the warschat for a while, with LeonPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's family living in the small Polish town of Narewkahouse to check up on her. There wasnBut what she doesn't much money but everyone was happy. Leon's father moved expect to Krakow find there is a werewolf in the hopes of making a better life basement – and when Leon and his siblings eventually join him, you can feel for that werewolf to be the wonder of a little boy new girl she has been talking to online for the big citypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|title=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)|author=Michelle Paver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A year after the Move on to [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first bookNewest Thrillers Reviews]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslaved, and forced to work in the copper mines on Thalakrea, 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 sister, 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 Bradshaw's suicide, her friends get together in a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apart, 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 to confirm his suspicions. Except very quickly, there's another dead body, and Ryan and his friends need to get rid of the corpse. Of course, where there's a murder victim, there's also a murderer - who can it be? Will anyone stay alive 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 Darkling, Alina and Mal are together at last. But when he emerges from the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, the Darkling could prove himself to be more dangerous than ever. Alina will be torn between her growing power, the man she loves, and her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming storm?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>}}

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