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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMax Boucherat|title=Tesla 1The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother is at work, justan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome... well... lost. The only thing he What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has he has to remember his mother by one main intention, and that is a note telling him to go log on to Voxminer, the mysterious Steam Academyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. However, But first he Lori has to a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriorsherself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. What's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, For the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention server she and her bestie and energy nobody else should be able to killing Sebastian in particularenter shows signs of tampering. What's he done to deserve that? More to When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the pointgame has been doctored – well, whatever he's done, how can he survivewhere is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RedRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Libby GleesonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''MudI can hear the song of the sea. In her mouthThe call of the deep, her nose and her eyes. Mud the answering beat 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: jaymartinjaymartinmy heart.''

Who 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 seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'jaymartin''? And s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is this girl? Red doesn't know who she as charming as he is or what has happened secretive and with only coordinates to guide her. She doesn't know what has caused the devastation all around her. Rescued from the mud by Peri, Red discovers that she's sets off in Sydney search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the aftermath of a terrible hurricanesea. Chaos is all around With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the emergency response struggles watched streets of foreign islands to get to grips with the deadheart of the smuggler's territory, injured and displaced. Through the noticeboard Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the rescue centre, Red future of her home and Peri discover that the ones she has a name. And a father. And a frightening secretholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917307</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Dead EndsFrontpage|author=Erin LangeHarry Allen|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Dane is a rebel who's close to getting kicked out of a school; Billy D is the new kid in town. One of Dane's few rules Children of behaviour is that he won't hit kids in special ed, so Billy D figures hanging around with someone tough who won't hit him is a good idea - although it's not that easy to convince Dane of this. He really needs to, though, because he has a puzzle to solve and Dane could be the perfect person to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Nomad (Faery Rebels) |author=R J AndersonSun|rating=4.5

|summary=Ok. Before we begin, you should know that ''Nomad'' Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is the second in a sequencetalented singer. So if you haven't yet read [[Swift Life is hard and food is difficult to come 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 adventures, mysterious cults so Seo and constant danger, then you'll love this book. Codes, puzzles her friends Nari and ancient secrets aboundMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and there is no doubt that edible grasses to supplement the publisher's comparison with the novels for adults written by Dan Brown is justified. There's drama meagre rations of rice and deadly peril on pretty well every pagekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000754734X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Emily's Quest: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)Alexia Casale|authortitle=L M MontgomerySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=When I read this book as a teenager (many times over!) I loved EmilyIt's passion for writing, I loved the excitement of all the different events through the story and I loved the happy ending. Coming hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to the story now, twentynavigate a life-plus years laterchanging disability too, I found but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the book had middle of a rather different flavour dance performance that was going to itchange her life. It isBut she comes back fighting, at timesdesperate to avoid the pity stares, terribly, desperately sad. I was surprised, by and desperate to get back to a book life that is widely regarded 's as normal as a childrenshe can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's storya new (cute!) boy in school, at just how bleak Emily's life appears her music A Level performance piece to try to besort out, and how traumatic just the day to day traumas of all the events in challenges her body continues to throw at her life areto navigate. It is very well written, and I still experienced the same compulsion to read it as I used to find when I was younger, yet So even with the finalthough she can't dance anymore, desperate happy ending that Montgomery manages might she be able to squeeze in I was left feeling rather contemplative.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089878</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonSimon Fox|title=A Room Full of ChocolateDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sometimes family isn't the Late one you are born into but night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the people force, and pigs you collect along then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the wayrun.'' Grace doesn't want to leave her London home and go and live with misery guts Grandad while her mum goes into hospital to They get a LUMP sorted out. Grace can't see why she couldn't look after her mum herself. After alltogether, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the LUMP was just caused by Mum dancing too muchfather is arrested, wasn't it? WASN'T IT? But Mum won't hear of it and Grace must move awayleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, start toting a new schooltin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, make new friends and miss her mum so much that even chocolate doesn't help. Things go from bad to worse when Grace upsets the resident school bully on her very first daybearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916750</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accidental Life of Jessie JeffersonLex Croucher|authortitle=Paige ToonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jessie Jefferson isn't having Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a great time of gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it. Her mum died lifted my spirits in a freak accidentmost delightful way. On Jessie's birthday. While buying Jessie's birthday cake. Grief In this story, Gwen and anger at the loss of her mother has sent Jessie into a spiral of teenage rebellion. She's drinking and smoking and partying and stepfather Stu is at the end of his tether. So Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much so that he finally tells Jessie something she's always wanted to know: the identity of her biological father... ... it's Johnny Jefferson, global rock star. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Crystal Chan|title=Bird|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, 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 factmutual disgust! Gwen, Jewel doesn't you see that her parents have ''any'' joy , is in their daughter at all. Shelove with Bridget (the kingdom's quite certain only female knight) - something that nobody will ever love Art discovers from her as much as Mom, Dad and Grandpa loved Johnprivate diaries. Until, one day, she finds And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a mysterious boy sitting they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in one of her favourite trees. Grandpa doesn't like this new Johnlove with each other, but Jewel does. She finally has someone that she can when really talk to, who really understands the way her mind worksthey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's life forever...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848531230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Cotterill|title=Looking at the Stars|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amina and Jenna are sisters living under the Kwana regime. Because the Kwana have banned girls from going to schoolas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they contribute to the family finances by weaving baskets and mats from reeds. Life under the Kwana is tough but Potta and Mamie tell their children to keep their heads down and get on with life as best find a way in which they can. But fighting is breaking out across the country and when Amina sees a column of liberating soldiersboth 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 a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approachingclass with her slingshot, Sophronia her simple existence is caught up changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip to Londonsolitude, for her life now has a prototype boy in it that everyone wants to get their hands on, and a potential threat to a friendshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Can she save the day?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Boy on Library of the Porch|author=Sharon CreechDead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=When Marta Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and John wake up one morningher aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a surprise in store. A little missing boy is asleep on their porchat the request of his dead mother. He has She will end up discovering an unsigned note asking occult library and realise that the couple to care for him. And so they do. And they soon come to love him, even though he cannot talk. But they canworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could't help but worryve imagined. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta she find the missing children and John bear bring an end to give him up - this little boy who paints blue treesevil, rides cows and can make music from anythingor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=The Ransom of DondFrontpage|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 they weren't SiobhanKristen O's sole legacy 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)|author=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 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 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, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the night rest of the worst storm in 50 yearsher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Jubilee Dougal's parents are arrested after an online support group where she talks to a riot over decorative housesbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Sent They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to stay with just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her grandparentsclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, her train gets stuckPriya becomes concerned. She ditches the train, decides to steal her parents' car and ends drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in a waffle house with fourteen cheerleaders the basement – and various teen boys. Three best-selling authors team up for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to tell online for the story of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellaspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]