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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SalvageMax Boucherat|authortitle=Keren DavidThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Cass is adopted. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's always been happy got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in her new family, getting babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on well with her parents lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and feeling protective of their natural son Ben. So when her fatherthat is to log on to Voxminer, a highthe world-ranking MPbuilding, critter-collecting game that is revealed to be having an affair with a woman not much older than 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 betrayal hits server she and her hardbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Aidan When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her brothersafe place in the game has been doctored – well, manages where is a girl to get back in touch with her shortly afterwards and seems to be the bright spot in her life. But how much do these siblings really know about each otherturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001375</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This Song Will Save Your LifeRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Leila SalesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elise is a fragile girl who's never felt like she fitted in anywhere. Shuttled between her divorced parents, she's desperate to be popular at school but I can't work out howhear the song of the sea. Then a chance event leads to her DJ'ing in Start, a hot underground nightclub and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but can she really leave behind her old selfThe call of the deep, or are the bullies who make her feel like thereanswering beat in my heart.''s nothing worthwhile about her life right all along?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447252837</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=When The Guns Fall Silent|author=James Riordan|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1964Mira, Perry visits a foreign cemetery with his grandfather Jacklike her mother before her, a hero is one of World War Ithe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Jack doesn't like But when the Council Watch lays a trap to talk about end the warwrecking, much to Perrythey capture the island's leader and Mira's disappointmentfather. Desperate to save him from death, but on this trip Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he finds himself thinking back 50 years is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a time when he signed up full family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of enthusiasm only foreign islands to be confronted by the harsh realities heart of warthe smuggler's territory, and looking back on those Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of his friends - English her home and German - who didn't make itthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735705</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesHarry Allen|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)
|author=L M Montgomery
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I think I should confess, before I write this review, that I am Ra Eun Seo lives in a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was North Korean town and she is a little girltalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, and I have read them so many times that the covers are worn Seo and faded her friends Nari and her stories live inside of me, at least in part making me who I am. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, CanadaMin go foraging every evening, looking for a conference about her works. I came back with a bottle of red sand tree bark and a heart full of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of Green Gables'' in my presence my eyes get very large rice and I get very excited (and my husband rolls his eyes...) So it is with trepidation that I sit down to review one of her bookskimchi at home. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Warm BodiesAlexia Casale|authortitle=Isaac MarionSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.
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{{newreview
|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies
|author=Isaac Marion
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.
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{{newreview
|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)
|author=Emmy Laybourne
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the end middle of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]a dance performance that was going to change her life. Niko But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Alex and six others were taking the desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school bus , her music A Level performance piece to try to save Brayden who had been shot sort out, and just the day to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid and three day traumas of all the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky challenges her body continues to throw at her to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsidenavigate. And when we say poisoned So even though she can't dance anymore, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways might she be able to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SkulkSimon Fox|authortitle=Rosie BestDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=All Meg wanted to do was go out Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and create a real work of graffiti art. Then she sees a dying fox transform into a manthen suddenly rings Archie, and pass onto her demanding he fetch something from a mysterious gemsecret place, and all of a sudden she's inherited a whole new world of problemsjoin him on the run. Skulk sees its heroine plunged into a secret London They get together, where raggedy groups but barely begin to smell the whiff of people transform into animals. The shapechangers have never got Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on with each otherthe late express to Brighton, but with toting a mysterious stranger trying tin his father was determined to claim keep away from his colleagues, and the strange gemstone Meg's forced to try to unite this ragtag bunchbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844701</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Time TrapLex Croucher|authortitle=Richard SmithGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are the two ghosts inhabiting his house in 21st century London?
 
Jamie and Todd are thrown into the mystery when they spend a weekend in London with Jamie's Uncle Simon who lives in the house that once belonged to Hector Lightfoot. Simon takes the two boys to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at the British Museum. When the building is struck by lightning, the two boys are sent back in time to the year 1862. They know that their only chance of returning home is to find Hector. But where is he? And can they avoid being sucked into a life of crime while they search for him?
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{{newreview
|title=Endless Knight
|author=Kresley Cole
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Evie has survived Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the post Flash apocalyptic world a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in part because of love with Bridget (the help of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her Cajun boyfriendprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Jack, and creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other companions , when really they've picked up along the wayare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But it's also because of Evie's impressive abilities.as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|title=TinderFrontpage|author=Sally Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about a world at war, but although death and violence abound once again, the atmosphere here is very different. This time we are not in some alternate nineteen fifties Britain where the bad guys have won, but instead in the eerie, mist-filled world of the fairy tale. In this place wonders and magic lead the hero to his destiny, and love, power and greed are the catalysts for both joy and despair. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Curtsies and Conspiracies|author=Gail CarrigerPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=With When the end principal (headmaster) of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approachingUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, Sophronia is caught up in a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip to Londonseemingly, has a prototype that everyone wants to get their hands ongrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and a potential threat to a friend. Can she save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boy on the Porch|author=Sharon Creech|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Marta and John wake up one morning, each could have been there's a surprise in store. A little boy is asleep on their porch. He has an unsigned note asking at the couple to care for him. And so they do. And they soon come to love him, even though he cannot talktime of his murder. But they can't help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for who killed him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little boy who paints blue treeswhy, rides cows and can make music from anything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ransom if any of Dond|author=Siobhan Dowd|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before she died from breast cancer in 2007. All four novels were wonderful and yet the boys are innocent, will they weren't Siobhan's sole legacy be able to us. Patrick Ness took an idea of hers and, together with artist Jim Kay, turned it into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]], which won both the Carnegie and Greenaway prizes. And now we have ''The Ransom of Dond'', Siobhan's last story. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Alan Turing (Real Lives)1919635017|authortitle=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Alan Turing was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of the last century. He did pioneering work on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also A Thief to Catch a hero of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Let It SnowKiller|author=John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren MyracleKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On Christmas EveSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, the night so why is he running around London committing a series of the worst storm in 50 years, Jubilee Dougalrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's parents are arrested after a riot over decorative houses. Sent ll have to wait to get an answer to stay with her grandparents, her train gets stuckthe second question because I avoid spoilers. She ditches But I'll answer the train, and ends up in a waffle house with fourteen cheerleaders and various teen boysfirst one: for his grandmother.. Three best-selling authors team up to tell the story of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>
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 {{newreview|title=The Letter for the King|author=Tonke Dragt|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's midsummer night, and Tiuri is one of five young men locked up in a chapel with one more night of silent penance between them and the ceremony that makes them knights of the realm, when a stranger lures him outside. The elderly man gives Tiuri the task of delivering a secret letter, and the chivalry and espionage is too much for the sixteen year old to ignore. The bad news begins, however, when he finds the very experienced knight he was to deliver the letter to dying alone on a forest floor, meaning Tiuri must accept the mantle unofficially, and deliver the missive to its ultimate audience – the king of the neighbouring country. The journey will bring the young man right to the cusp of danger, international intrigue and more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690107</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=HazeFrontpage|author=Paula Weston|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gaby Winter's life used to be pretty ordinary. Apart the horrific nightmares she sometimes had about a guy Patrick Ness and a nightclub and the death of her brother, Jude, things were going okay. Until the mysterious Rafa showed up and told her she was actually one of the Rephaim - a child of a fallen angel - and that she lived a whole other life that she can't remember, where she and Jude were warriors against demons, but on two opposite sides. The other Rephaim thought she was dead. And now they think there's a chance Jude might be alive somewhere too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621590</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)|author=Anne Cassidy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Just before Christmas, Josh's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in an horrific accident. Determined to help, Josh, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle Different for the festive season. Things are awkward between the three. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced they are being followed. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawn, fixating on the deaths she has witnessed. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people's problems when he has challenges of his own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Close Your Pretty Eyes|author=Sally Nicholls|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia is trapped, in a world somewhat of her own making. She is living a life of endless switching from a set of foster parents, to would-be adoptive parents, to care homes. Whenever she fetches up with nice adults, she worries too much about making mistakes, being too violent, clumsy, needy, noisy, spiteful – and prefers then to go the whole hog and make them despair of ever liking her, of losing all kind of sympathy with her. That way she can relax, knowing the truth, knowing the hatred is there – just as it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing and abandoning her and her baby siblings. Olivia is eleven. But in this one new house, with Jim, and his children, and the fostered young-mother-of-a-babe-in-arms, something is different. Something is definitely older than Olivia, and certainly more evil, and most assuredly better at getting its own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Conquest|author=John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They are keen to ensure the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Saving Silence|author=Gina BlaxillBoys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Sam moved to London fairly recently Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and has struggled is surprised to settle in. Imogen find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has never had problems making friendsbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, she's a former head girl and a two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school sports stardays together. She As they's tried re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to make friends with Samsex. Which is confusing for Ant, however, but as he doesn't seem interested - until know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one night when he approaches her out of the blue, only for someone to speed towards him several months now, and try to knock him over. Imogen saves his life - so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but why would anyone try to kill him? And has she put herself whether that's set in danger by getting involved? With Sam reluctantly telling Imogen a secretstone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the pair are left frantically trying to save themselves from some seriously nasty peoplesex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447208846</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew Fukuda|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summaryisbn=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist father. But is that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She can drain the magic of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=Debutantes: In LoveStitched Up|author=Cora HarrisonSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Poppy Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor woman came to the village to launch themselves offer Hahn a job in LondonHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. The pair know they need Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to marry well as their father is work in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of a distraction shop, they were to their real dreams of films and musicwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Can they find themselves love You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and happiness in beading on the legs? The ones with the Roaring Twentiesartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The NaturalsPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Jennifer Lynn BarnesNeedle|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesnBrave. Charlene, the 't feel heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like an average teenager, characters and readers both. Average teenagers don Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't lose their mothers to unsolved murderss at uni. Average teenagers canSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you 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't profile other s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people within minutes of acquaintance. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by the FBI to train give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as specifically-talented crimefightersexpletively ignorant. Cassie Hobbes And then... well, what exactly happens is specialnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B BabyAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Darren ShanRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you havenKurara 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 Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the [[Zom-B matter, because the Midori is destroyed by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gone? Goodand she is forced to flee out into the worldThe story so farShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How to LoveMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Katie CotugnoWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Katie Cotugno's debut novel ''How Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to Love'' isgo where he wants and with whom he wants, unsurprisinglybut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, all about loveCassie. It has at its centre Reena and SawyerThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a gritty portrayal subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of first love. But her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it also some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has family love, friendship, and all those other kinds of lovesgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782060006</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Killing WoodsTori Bovalino|authortitle=Lucy ChristopherThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Popular girl Ashlee Working all summer in her boarding school's library is deadthe last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. They’re saying What makes it worse is the father man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her lessfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-popular classmate Emily is responsibleit notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. She cannot accept thisThey're never meant to reach him, cannot accept that of course. Her plan is to get her own father could do something anger out like thatthis, but and then take them all the evidence points that wayoff before delivering them. Emily can’t stop thinking about No harm done… Or it. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods that nightwould be, but the more she uncovers, the more uneasy she feelsif someone hadn't delivered them for her. Could her father actually be the one who killed Ashlee? And should she stop digging before she unearths something really unpleasant?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906427720</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=She Is Not InvisiblePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Laureth In a word, rich. There is used to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted the fact that he will hare off across the world certainly an abundance of riches in search of some obscure information for this story set on a storypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the fact Dark family that he rarely asks her about herself has to keep watch for magical islands and her life at schooltheir monster approaching from even further west, preferring where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to lecture her instead about keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his latest theory. He even pays her head to answer worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the fan mail on sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his website for him. Andcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not, there's nothing she can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Twistrose KeyJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lin Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her their cat from the family are living home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a rented house summer, in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor far NE of traditional songs at the universityScottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the city as elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where , she was brought up will be homesick and alone – until she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebushsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife EdgeJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Andrew LaneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Sherlock's deductive powers are called into play as he struggles to find out exactly what Scarlett McCain is happening in a remote castle on an outlaw, rejecting the coast draconian conformity of Galway. How did the servant dieSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and why did shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she lose her shoes? Is there really meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a Dark Beast roaming darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the local beaches and caves as mythical Free Isles of the villagers claim? And more significantly for world peaceLondon Lagoon. Together, is the selfthey must brave man-proclaimed psychic Ambrose Albano a fraud, or can he really find outeating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and thus revealall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the secrets rest of international espionage from those beyond the graveBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230758878</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Catherine FisherSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=OkGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Let's catch you up. Jake's father As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is still lost used to not being a priority in time. Vennpeople's wife is still deadlives. Summer, the Queen of the SheeBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it simple existence is that he's trying to dochanged for good. The ChronoptikaNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from boy in it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelythat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire With FireT L Huchu|authortitle=Siobhan Vivian and Jenny HanThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=With Reeve hospitalised after Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the terrible events at the end dead of [[Burn Edinburgh for Burn by Jenny Han their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and Siobhan Vivian|Burn for Burn]]her aging grandmother. However, Lilliathere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Kat and Mary must face targeting the falloutcity's children. Mary Soon, Ropa is desperate pulled into the search for revenge despite a missing boy at the other two starting to have cold feet, but they agree to go through with their plan in order to give her the satisfaction request of seeing his heart brokendead mother. As Lillia pretends to fall for She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the boy, though, world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she sees another side to Reeve and starts to wonder if heever could's as bad as Mary says he isve imagined. Can their friendship hold up under Will she find the strain of all the secrets missing children and liesbring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116905</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wereworld: War of the WerelordsKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Curtis JoblingLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=With the Catlords at each other's throatsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, there appears Priya has to come to finally terms with the fact that she may be a chance in constant pain for Drew Ferran and his allies to win the war and bring peace to Lyssia. Stacked against him, though, are still fearsome foes - including the dreadful Wyld Wolves, mockeries rest of lycanthropesher life. Meanwhile DrewShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s adoptive brother Trent, bitten by one an online support group where she talks to a bunch of the vile creaturesother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, knows that he is doomed while also providing an escape to become one but is determined just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to gain his revenge before he loses control. As the opposing forces gatherchat for a while, huge armies could decide the fate of the Seven RealmsPriya becomes concerned.She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her.. but But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in Icegarden, perhaps the most deadly force of them all still basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has a part been talking to play in this waronline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345039</amazonuk>1683692349
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