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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=RedFrontpage|author=Libby GleesonMax Boucherat|ratingtitle=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Mud. In her mouth, her nose and her eyes. Mud in her hair and caked on her neck and her arms. Mud filling her shoes and seeping through her clothes. She lay sprawled on her side, a garbled, barely distinct sound coming from her: jaymartinjaymartin.'' Who is ''jaymartin''? And who is this girl? Red doesn't know who she is or what has happened to her. She doesn't know what has caused the devastation all around her. Rescued from the mud by Peri, Red discovers that she's in Sydney in the aftermath The Last Life of a terrible hurricane. Chaos is all around as the emergency response struggles to get to grips with the dead, injured and displaced. Through the noticeboard at the rescue centre, Red and Peri discover that she has a name. And a father. And a frightening secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dead Ends|author=Erin LangeLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Dane is a rebel whoWe meet Lori on the first evening she's close got the house to getting kicked out of 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 school; Billy D blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the new kid world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in town. One of DaneLori's few rules of behaviour is world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he wonthis stormy night doesn't hit kids in special edfind herself entirely on her own, so Billy D figures hanging around with someone tough who won't hit him is a good idea - although it's not that easy and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to convince Dane enter shows signs of thistampering. He really needs to When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, thoughand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, because he has where is a puzzle to solve and Dane could be the perfect person girl to help him.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571308821</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Nomad (Faery Rebels) Rachel Greenlaw|authortitle=R J AndersonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Ok''I can hear the song of the sea. Before we beginThe call of the deep, you should know that ''Nomad'' is the second answering beat in a sequencemy heart. So if you haven't yet read [[Swift by R J Anderson|Swift]], you should probably start there. Don't read this review: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. We meet up with Ivy again as|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326485</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Forbidden Stone (The Copernicus Legacy)|author=Tony Abbott|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you like your fiction full of heart-stopping adventuresRosevear, mysterious cults a remote and constant dangerpartially forgotten island, then you'll love this booksurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. CodesMira, puzzles and ancient secrets aboundlike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and there is no doubt any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the publisherisland's leader and Mira's comparison father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the novels for adults written by Dan Brown is justifiedsea. ThereWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's drama territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and deadly peril on pretty well every pagethe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000754734X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Emily's Quest: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)Harry Allen|authortitle=L M MontgomeryChildren of the Sun

|summary=When I read this book as Ra Eun Seo lives in a teenager (many times over!) I loved Emily's passion for writing, I loved the excitement of all the different events through the story North Korean town and I loved the happy ending. Coming to the story now, twenty-plus years later, I found the book had she is a rather different flavour to ittalented singer. It Life is, at times, terribly, desperately sad. I was surprised, by a book that hard and food is widely regarded as a children's story, at just how bleak Emily's life appears difficult to become by, so Seo and how traumatic the events in her life are. It is very well writtenfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and I still experienced the same compulsion to read it as I used edible grasses to find when I was younger, yet even with supplement the final, desperate happy ending that Montgomery manages to squeeze in I was left feeling rather contemplativemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089878</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonAlexia Casale|title=A Room Full of ChocolateSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Jessie Jefferson isnIt't s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a great time life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of ita dance performance that was going to change her life. Her mum died in But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a freak accident. On Jessielife that's birthdayas normal as she can possibly manage. While buying Jessie Meanwhile there's birthday cake. Grief a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and anger at just the loss day to day traumas of all the challenges her mother has sent Jessie into a spiral of teenage rebellion. She's drinking and smoking and partying and stepfather Stu is body continues to throw at the end of his tetherher to navigate. So much so that he finally tells Jessie something even though shecan's always wanted t dance anymore, might she be able to know: the identity of sing her biological father... ... it's Johnny Jefferson, global rock star. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118789</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Crystal ChanSimon Fox|title=BirdDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=''Grandpa stopped speaking Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the day he killed my brotherforce, John.'' That was also the day Jewel was born. Birthdays for Jewel are miserable affairs during which her parents' grief for their son trump their joy in their daughter. In factand then suddenly rings Archie, Jewel doesn't see that her parents have ''any'' joy in their daughter at all. She's quite certain that nobody will ever love her as much as Momdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, Dad and Grandpa loved Johnjoin him on the run. Until They get together, one day, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in one but barely begin to smell the whiff of her favourite trees. Grandpa doesn't like this new JohnSouthern trains when the father is arrested, but Jewel does. She finally has someone that she can really talk leaving Archie on the late express toBrighton, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And toting a tin his arrival is about father was determined to change Jewel's life forever..keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848531230</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo CotterillLex Croucher|title=Looking at the StarsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=Amina Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Jenna are sisters living under the Kwana regime. Because the Kwana Arthur have banned girls from going been betrothed since they were tiny, much to schooltheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, they contribute to is in love with Bridget (the family finances by weaving baskets and mats kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from reedsher private diaries. Life under And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Kwana is tough but Potta and Mamie tell their children to keep their heads down and get on subterfuge of falling in love with life as best each other, when really they canare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But fighting is breaking out across the country and when Amina sees as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a column of liberating soldiersway in which they can both truly be themselves, she begins or are they destined to think life might get better soon. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230018X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hunger (Hammer 1)Nick Brooks|authortitle=Melvin BurgessPromise Boys

|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt and consumed by a ravening hunger. She puts it down to illness and sleepwalking at first but when When the hunger doesn't go and reports principal (headmaster) of a grave desecration surfaceUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Beth has to admit that something sinister is afootthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Beth doesn't know it yet Each, seemingly, but she is has a special person. She carries a conduit from the land grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the living to the land time of the dead and a newly-awakened demon wants her very muchhis murder. But can Bethwho killed him, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan why, and Collif any of the boys are innocent, defeat himwill they be able to clear their names? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=ShadowplayA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Laura LamKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Micah Grey and the clown Drystan have left the circus. Trying to escape their past, and the terrible tragedy that ended Pantomime, they find Jasper MaskeSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a retired magician who owes Drystan a favour. While they seem series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have found a safe haven, to wait to get an answer to the return of a figure from Maskesecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's past reignites an old rivalryll answer the first one: for his grandmother... Can they help Maske and avoid detection when the mysterious Shadows seek both Micah and the person he once was? And who is the mysterious Cyan, and can they trust her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Storm Patrick Ness and StoneTea Bendix|authortitle=Joss StirlingDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=American student Raven Stone doesn't like it Ant is in Year Eleven at her exclusive English boarding quite a standard school. People are going missing, and return seeming very differentis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. The teachers pick on her as As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a scholarship studentssingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and her classmates hate her - one of them enough out often turns to send her death threatssex. Just Which is confusing for Ant, as the mystery starts to deepenhe doesn't know what his score is, two new boys arrivewhere his achievements in that regard lie. Joe is friendly He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and charismaticso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but itwhether that's Kieranset in stone, he can's analytical brain which may t be the clue to solving her problemssure. Although her problems may be bigger than either And that's mostly because of them had realised..who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735683</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The One Safe PlaceStitched Up|author=Tania UnsworthSteve Cole

|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfatherBrave. Charlene, away from the rest 'heroine' of the worldthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. He knows Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a little about it – how the gap between rich pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and poor is far wider than the world we live has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be inneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and how many children now live on the streetcreation of one such item is part of the plot here, scavenging as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for scraps to say aliveher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. But, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a simple onestore detective, but they can grow enough food and then force people to get bygive her two days off school, and they’re happywhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... When tragedy strikeswell, Devin what exactly happens is forced not for me to say, only to leave his home remark how sharp and venture into the city for the first timepointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Crash Into YouAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Katie McGarryRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=This Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the second companion book Empire. He asks her to McGarrycome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's stunning debut [[Pushing t have any say in the matter, because the Limits Midori is destroyed by Katie McGarry|Pushing The Limits]]a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, following [[Dare You To by Katie McGarry|Dare You To]]and she is forced to flee out into the world. In She joins Himura aboard the wonderful Pushing The LimitsOrihime, we were introduced a sky-ship whose express purpose is to main characters Noah and Echo hunt down shikigami, and an excellent supporting cast including Noah's best friends and surrogate family Beth and Isaiah.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452543</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SalvageMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Keren DavidWrath

|summary=Cass is adopted. She's always been happy in her new familyMeet Fitz, getting on well with her parents and feeling protective a young Scottish lad full of their natural son Benfrustration at himself. So when her fatherLockdown is only just over, a high-ranking MPand he should be free to do what he wants, is revealed to be having an affair go where he wants and with a woman not much older than her the betrayal hits her hard. Aidanwhom he wants, her brother, manages to get back but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in touch with her shortly afterwards and seems it when he talks to be the bright spot in her lifehis best friend, Cassie. But how much do these siblings really know about each other?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001375</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=This Song Will Save Your Life|author=Leila Sales|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elise is They were half of a fragile girl who's never felt like desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she fitted in anywherecould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Shuttled between Is this connected with one of her divorced eco-warrior parents, saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's desperate to be popular at school but dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can't work Fitz find out how. Then a chance event leads to her DJ'ing in Startthe truth? Well, a hot underground nightclub and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but not when Cassie has gone missing he can she really leave behind her old self, or are the bullies who make her feel like there's nothing worthwhile about her life right all along?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447252837</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=When The Guns Fall SilentTori Bovalino|authortitle=James RiordanThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=In 1964, Perry visits Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a foreign cemetery with his grandfather Jack, request for over a hero of World War Ihundred books that she has to deliver herself. Jack doesn't like to talk about What makes it worse is the man who requested the war, much to Perrybooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's disappointmentheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, but Tess sticks post-it notes on this trip he finds himself thinking back 50 years to a time when he signed up full each of enthusiasm only to be confronted by the harsh realities books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of war. They're never meant to reach him, and looking back on those of his friends - English course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and German - who didnthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't make itdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735705</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott Utterly Dark and othersthe Face of the Deep

|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed In a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title characterword, but the nature of the programmerich. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being There is certainly an essential part abundance of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed riches in all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see this story set on a programme about three Doctorspeculiar island called Wildsea, er, pressing a red buttonBritish but way west, we turn to other aspects of beyond the birthday bonanzaScillies. 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>}} {{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 a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was a little girl, and I have read them so many times that the covers There are worn and faded and her stories live inside of me, at least in part making me who I am. I wrote my masters dissertation troll people on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back with a bottle of red sand and a heart full of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne of Green Gables'' in my presence my eyes get very large 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 books. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of viewsea-witches, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more legends of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who Dark family that has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In shortkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, 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 itselfno ship dare sail. Two other characters The current Darks are important to this storyline, ''M''the Watcher, R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked NoraAndrewe, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{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 keep notes of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with activity from the endingHidden Lands, 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 his brother Will who lives 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 London with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - too much science in order his head to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the authorworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{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 the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Nikofoundling daughter, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid and three washed up out of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsidesea one day eleven years ago. And But when we say poisonedAndrewe Dark drowns himself, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulk|author=Rosie Best|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Meg wanted to do was go out both his sullen brother and create a real work of graffiti art. Then she sees a dying fox transform his curious ward are thrust into a man, and pass onto her a mysterious gem, and all of a sudden she's inherited a whole new the world of problems. Skulk sees its heroine plunged into a secret Londonprotecting their island, where raggedy groups of people transform into animals. The shapechangers have never got on with each other, but with a mysterious stranger trying to claim the strange gemstone Meg's forced to try to unite this ragtag bunchlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844701</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Time TrapKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Richard SmithJulia and the Shark

|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are their cat from the two ghosts inhabiting his house family home in 21st century London? Jamie and Todd are thrown into the mystery when they spend SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a weekend in London with Jamie's Uncle Simon who lives summer, in the house far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that once belonged to Hector Lightfootkind of Scottish island. Simon takes the two boys Dad is going to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at be automating the British Museum. When the building lantern, which is struck by lightninghis specialist thing, the two boys are sent back while mum will be leaving her career in time algae behind to hunt the year 1862elusive Greenland shark. 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? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780353855</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Endless Knight|author=Kresley Cole|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Evie has survived in the post Flash apocalyptic world in part because of the help of her Cajun boyfriendJulia, Jackwell, she will be homesick and the other companions they've picked up along the way. But it's also because of Evie's impressive abilitiesalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TinderJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Sally GardnerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about a world at warFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but although death robbing banks and violence abound once againshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, the atmosphere here is very differenta dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. This time we are not in some alternate nineteen fifties Britain where With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the bad guys have won, but instead in mythical Free Isles of the eerieLondon Lagoon. Together, mistthey must brave man-filled world of eating wildlife, the fairy tale. In this place wonders cannibalistic Tainted and magic lead all the hero horrors of post-apocalyptic society to his destinyreach the Free Isles, and love, power and greed but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the catalysts for both joy and despair. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Curtsies and ConspiraciesMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Gail CarrigerSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=With the end Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approaching, Sophronia is caught up in a conspiracy involving man with a mysterious trip to London"real" family, a prototype that everyone wants to get their hands on, and a potential threat she is used to not being a friendpriority in people's lives. Can But when 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, there's defends a surprise random boy in store. A little boy her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is asleep on their porch. He has an unsigned note asking the couple to care changed for himgood. And so they do. And they soon come to love himNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, even though he cannot talk. But they can't help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little her life now has a boy who paints blue trees, rides cows and can make music from anything?in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Ransom Library of Dond|author=Siobhan Dowdthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before she died Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from breast cancer in 2007the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. All four novels were wonderful and yet they weren't SiobhanEver since she dropped out of school, she's sole legacy been using it to ussupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Patrick Ness took However, there's an idea evil stalking the ruined streets of hers andEdinburgh, together with artist Jim Kaytargeting the city's children. Soon, turned it Ropa is pulled into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]], which won both the Carnegie search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and Greenaway prizes. And now we have ''The Ransom realise that the world of Dond'magic 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, Siobhan's last story. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Frontpage|author=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=ChildrenKristen O'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 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>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Let It Snow|author=John Green, Maureen Johnson Lycanthropy and Lauren MyracleOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=On Christmas EveHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, the night of the worst storm in 50 years, Jubilee Dougal's parents are arrested after a riot over decorative houses. Sent Priya has to come to stay terms with her grandparents, her train gets stuck. She ditches the train, and ends up fact that she may be in a waffle house with fourteen cheerleaders and various teen boys. Three best-selling authors team up to tell constant pain for the story rest of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellasher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Letter for the King|author=Tonke Dragt|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=ItShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s midsummer night, and Tiuri is one an online support group where she talks to a bunch of five young men locked up in a chapel other teens living with one more night of silent penance between them chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and the ceremony that makes them knights of the realmhelp each other out, when a stranger lures him outsidewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. The elderly man gives Tiuri When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the task of delivering chat for a secret letterwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and the chivalry and espionage is too much for the sixteen year old drive to Brigid's house to ignorecheck up on her. The bad news begins, however, when he finds the very experienced knight he was But what she doesn't expect to deliver the letter to dying alone on find there is a forest floor, meaning Tiuri must accept werewolf in the mantle unofficially, basement – and deliver the missive for that werewolf to its ultimate audience – be the king of the neighbouring country. The journey will bring the young man right girl she has been talking to online for the cusp of danger, international intrigue and morepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690107</amazonuk>1683692349

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