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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scavenger 1: ZoidMax Boucherat|authortitle=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Somewhere out in We meet Lori on the further reaches of first evening she's got the galaxy is house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a spherical constructionblanket fort, she has one main intention, speeding the last few surviving Earth humans and that is to log on their way to a differentVoxminer, new homethe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a giant biosphere acting as the one remaining Ark for whathit in Lori's left of humankindworld. And its purpose is 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 important as, somewhen, somewhere and somehow, during its flight, the robot inhabitants – the cleaners, butlers, farmers and mechanics – rebelledspooky. Since then they have evolved themselves, For the server she and ignored all their original programming, her bestie and are intent on wiping out humans insteadnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. WeWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, of courseand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, are fighting back, but when the tiny community of little more than where is a hundred that serves as the whole world for the young worker known as York gets wiped out, he gets the clearest picture yet of how difficult that battle will be…girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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's 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 sea. With 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Urban OutlawsChildren of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Jay BlackAlexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=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 middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and 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, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?
|isbn=0571373801
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{{Frontpage
|author=Simon Fox
|title=Deadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=What skills would you need to trick Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the rich force, and powerful out of their ill-gotten gains? A posse of brilliant lawyers then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of guns and bombs? WellSouthern trains when the father is arrested, maybeleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, although it is very possible that all that will do is toting a tin his father was determined to turn you into villains as dirty as your marks. Andkeep away from his colleagues, if you'll forgive and the sudden descent into street-speak, that's not the way these five young Urban Outlaws rollbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408851415</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=White SpaceLex Croucher|authortitle=Ilsa J BickGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Emma has problemsWho 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. The metal plates in her head may be holding her skull together In this story, but Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they don't stop the headacheswere tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, or is in love with Bridget (the kingdom'blinks' s only female knight) - periods of time something that Emma losesArt discovers from her private diaries. When Emma wakes from And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a blink in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the middle subterfuge of a snowstormfalling in love with each other, driving in a valley she doesn't recognisewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and crashes into will they find a snow mobileway in which they can both truly be themselves, it doesn't take long for things or are they destined to start getting weird. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00I0LY8ZO</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IronheartNick Brooks|authortitle=Allan BoroughsPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=India Bentley's father went missing looking for oil in Siberia. Except it wasn't just oil he was searching for - rather, he was trying to find the lost fortress of Ironheart, whose old world secrets could save humanity - or destroy the world. When she meets tech-hunter Verity Brown and her android bodyguard Calculus, India manages to become involved in a daring adventure with some seriously unsavoury characters. Can she save her father, and the world?
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{{newreview
|title=Panic
|author=Lauren Oliver
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Every summer, a game takes place in Carp. The stakes are high and When the prize is big, a life changing amount principal (headmaster) of money for the person who can hold their own the longest and outlast their competitors. Anyone from the graduating class of high Urban Promise Prep school can enteris murdered, and many do, but in three boys find themselves called into the end, only one can winpolice station as suspects. Along the way the contestants’ limits are tested Each, pacts made and brokenseemingly, and secrets revealed. From has a grudge of some of the challengesdescription against Principal Moore, and each could have been there may be injuries, traumatic or even fatal, but at the lure time of the prize money is so great that many choose to ignore the riskshis murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444723022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Half Bad|author=Sally Green|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I start But who killed him, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genreand why, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability if any of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. Soboys are innocent, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Facts of Life (Rachel Riley)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Joanna NadinKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Never let it be said that we here at The Bookbag do not try and give you the reviews nobody else can. This Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a case in point – the review of the sixth and final Rachel Riley book from someone who has never read any series of the other five. As such a person I can add robberies? And how did he learn to all the superlatives the series has got from elsewhere the bonus information that should your tastes in books be as fickle as those of the reviewing gods, you can start this brilliant series at the end and not really suffer a jot. crack safes? You would be patently bonkers 'll have to choose wait to get an answer to do so, but the optionsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's therell answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273380X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rock WarPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Robert MuchamoreDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Jay comes from Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a large family - he's standard school, and is 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 eight kids squashed into a flat above four with both his best buddy from the chip shop that his mother runsfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Jay isn As they't really like his brothersre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, who are tough the talk in class and always in troubleout often turns to sex. Jay Which is skinny and weedy and consumed with musical ambition. But his bandconfusing for Ant, Brontobyte, just as he doesn't have know what it takeshis score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, largely thanks to its spoiled brata secret one, hopeless drummerfor several months now, Tristanand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. If And that's mostly because of who he wants a future in music, some major changes are in order's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914537</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Infinity Drake: The Sons of ScarlattiStitched Up|author=John McNallySteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Finn (real name Infinity) Drake is off for Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a week away fashion designer. Life in the Pyrenees rural village where she lived with his Uncle Al. He's supposed to be at school but Grandma has gone off on a knitting cruiseher family was happy, if not prosperous, so she will never know. But before they can be on their way, Al is summoned to a crisis meeting with secret government officials. A lethal bio-weapon - when the Scarlatti wasp smartly- has been stolen and released by an uber-villain (who else but an uber-villain) dressed man and woman came to the world's only chance is village to use Al's top secret invention to shrink offer Hahn a combat team job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to destroy itbe missed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sleuth or Dare: An AKA Novel|author=Robin Benway|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When safecracker Maggie Silver's parents are falsely accused of a crime, she's uprooted from her newly peaceful existence as a normal high Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-school girl and forced bus to fleeHanoi. Only, along with best friend Roux Hanh and boyfriend Jessiethe other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to Pariswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Can You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the three of legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them, aided by some new friends ? It's quite possible that Hanh and honorary uncle Angelo, clear her family's name?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111676X</amazonuk>co-workers made them.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TroublePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Non PrattNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hannah Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is 15 extremely hard for some people to like, characters and pregnantreaders both. She can 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 tell anyone who s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the father creation of one such item is - but new boy at school Aaron steps up to offer his services part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a fake fatheryounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Hannah acceptsWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and the pair start their journey then force people to parenthoodgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But who really is the dadwell, and why what exactly happens is Aaron willing not for me to make such a massive commitment say, only to a girl he doesn't even know that well?remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406347698</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RooftoppersAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Katherine RundellRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie is shipwrecked Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the English Channel on 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 1st birthdaythat 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 mother presumed deadto come with him, but to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's lucky enough to be found t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by scholar Charles. He raises her a monstrous paper spirit known as his ward and they have a happyshikigami, if seriously unconventional, existence until and she is forced to flee out into the authorities intervene on her 12th birthdayworld. With She joins Himura aboard the orphanage beckoningOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, Sophie and Charles run away to France in the hope that her mother may be alive after all.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571280595</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead and Buried (Murder Notebooks) Marcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Anne Cassidy Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's been five years since Rose's and Josh's parents disappeared and Rose is determined finally to start getting on with her life. She hasn't seen Josh for a few weeks and although she misses himMeet Fitz, she can't but help feeling a sense young Scottish lad full of relieffrustration at himself. But then policeman Henry turns up at her door with more bad news: the body of a teenage girl has been found buried in the garden of her old homeLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, the one she shared to go where he wants and with her motherwhom he wants, Joshbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, and his father BrendanCassie. With their parents implicatedThey were half of a desultory school band, Rose and Josh have no choice but to try to solve Cassie was also one last murder...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) |author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as could hear a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britainsubhuman hum coming from the earth. All memory Is this connected with one of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new foster family, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if kind of music she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has discovered that she isngone missing he can't a run-of-the-mill Slated. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The God Beneath the SeaTori Bovalino|authortitle=Leon Garfield and Edward BlishenThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a baby falls from request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the sky into man who requested the seabooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, Thetisand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, goddess Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the seabooks, takes scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him into her care and names him Hephaestus, of course. Raised lovingly by Thetis and Her plan is to get her sister Eurynomeanger out like this, Hephaestus still grows to question who he is and where he came fromthen take them all off before delivering them. The sisters tell him he was born on OlympusNo harm done… Or it would be, and so begins the twisting turning tales of the Titans and the Gods - their battles if someone hadn't delivered them for supremacy, their betrayals, their vengeanceher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533118</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreview|title=The Spectacular Now Frontpage|author=Tim TharpPhilip Reeve|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=Sutter Keely, The Sutterman, has life pretty good. Sure, he's got no long-term plan and may spend his life folding shirts, but he's having a ton of fun, he's hugely popular - even his ex-girlfriends still like him - and his relationship with the wonderful Cassidy will get back on track soon enough. Then he meets the sci-fi obsessed, shy, put-upon Aimee, and decides he can make a difference in her life. The plan is to help her gain some confidence, become popular, Utterly Dark and find a nice guy - but Sutter doesn't bargain on things going further than he was planning on. Will he change Aimee's life for the better, or for the worse?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146459</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Vengeance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Children Face of the King|author=Sonya HartnettDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In a prosperous area of London during World War II the two Lockwood children, twelve year old Cecily and her older brother Jeremy, are dispatched, together with their socialite mother, to stay with family in the north to keep them safe. On their arrivalword, at Cecily’s insistence, they take in a young evacuee, ten year old Mayrich. As they wander the countryside close to Cecily’s Uncle Peregrine’s country estate the two girls find two strange boys hiding in the ruins of Snow Castle and do not tell the rest of the family about their discovery. As the children attempt to cope with their changed circumstances and the fear of There is certainly an approaching enemy, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells the children a dark and sinister story abundance of intrigue riches in the Royal courts of long ago and so begins the story within a this story. This intriguing book then goes set on to combine two periods of English history in an extraordinary adventure that is not only an historical novel but a moving coming of age story too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137514</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Tilly's Promise|author=Linda Newbery|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in the sleepy little village she peculiar island called homeWildsea, British but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks outway west, beyond the Scillies. First her sweetheart joins upThere are troll people on it, then Tilly signs on a nurse and finally her brother Georgie is called upsea-witches, despite and legends of the fact Dark family that he is completely unfit has to keep watch for servicemagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Georgie is different, big and strong but with The current Darks are the mind of a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are madeWatcher, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he won't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words). When Georgie is posted to Harry's unitAndrewe, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard who has to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality notes of life in activity from the trenchesHidden Lands, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurse. Everything seems to have changed. his brother Will even love remain the same - especially who lives in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Boys Don't Knit|author=T S Easton|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ben Fletcher is a pleasant and fairly quiet boy - so when the 17-year-old gets roped into taking part London with too much science in the Great Trolley Robbery his head to grab some booze for a partyworry about such local yokel superstitions, itand Andrewe's just his luck that he's the one foundling daughter, who ends washed up getting assaulted by a lollipop lady and put on probation! Forced to keep a journal, give back to out of the victim of his crimesea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, and take up an approved hobby, he reluctantly chooses knitting - only to find a real talent for it. Can he keep both his new-found hobby a secret from his dad sullen brother and his mates, get curious ward are thrust into the girl world of his dreamsprotecting their island, and become a champion knitter?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471401472</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Kissing GameKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Jean UreJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Salvatore d'Amato Julia, our pre- sometimes nicknamed Sally Tomato - is twelve years old and teen heroine, has never been kissed. He's determined packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to change that before his next birthday. But will Lucybe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the object far NE of his affectionsthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, ever return them? He has a secret weapon - his poetrythat kind of Scottish island. Is it Dad is going to win her heartbe automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, or just disgust while mum will be leaving her? career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And will Harmony HyndeJulia, the girl in his class who works as a library assistantwell, stop bothering him?she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007519516</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Neil GaimanThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I wished I could visit a Museum Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Unnatural HistoryBritain, but even so, I was glad there wasn't onerobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive... If someone actually caught a werewolfBut then she meets Albert Browne, or a dragon, if they tamed dark boy with dark powers and a manticore or stabled a unicorn, put them in bottles, dissected darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting themdown, then they could be only one thingplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, and they would no longer live in the shadowy places between must brave man-eating wildlife, the things I knew cannibalistic Tainted and all the world horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the impossibleFree Isles, which was, I was certain, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the introduction to this anthology rest of sixteen ''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not to capitalise, that is the question).Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanMercedes Helnwein|title=ZOM-B GladiatorSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=WARNING: ''Gladiator'' Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is the sixth book used to not being a priority in the people''ZOM-B'' seriess lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, so if you don't want to catch any spoilersher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, look away for her life now. Don't say I didn't warn you. You're gone, right? Goodhas a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077724</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut Library of the Moon in Two|author=Catherynne M ValenteDead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=A while ago Ropa Moyo is a friend recommended ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a book called [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship bit of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Her Own Making]]Edinburgh for their living relatives. I have Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to saysupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the title alone intrigued meruined streets of Edinburgh, but somehow that title sat on my targeting the city'to get' pile and I never actually got around to reading its children. Since then several other people (all adults) have suggested I might like itSoon, so when I saw Ropa is pulled into the latest book in this series was available I decided to give it search for a trymissing boy at the request of his dead mother. I really should have read She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the first two books, I thinkworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. This is Will she find the third in the series, missing children and I believe there are going bring an end to be five altogether. There are some series which you can dip into without feeling this evil, or will it claim her too lost, but this isn't one of them!?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110218</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Old Dog, New TricksKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Bali RaiLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is the only friend he has, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old git, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Lingane
|title=Tesla 1
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother is just... well... lost. The only thing he has he has to remember his mother by is a note telling him to go to the mysterious Steam Academy. However, first he has to find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. What's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. What's he done to deserve that? More to the point, whatever he's done, how can he survive?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Red
|author=Libby Gleeson
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Mud. In her mouthHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, her nose and her eyes. Mud Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her hair and caked on her neck and her arms. Mud filling her shoes and seeping through her clotheslife. She lay sprawled on her side, a garbled, barely distinct sound coming from her: jaymartinjaymartin.'' Who is joins ''jaymartinOof Ouch My Bones''? And who is this girl? Red doesn't know who , an online support group where she is or what has happened talks to hera bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. She doesn't know what has caused the devastation all They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around . When Brigid—one of her. Rescued from the mud by Peri, Red discovers that sheclosest friends—doesn's in Sydney in t respond to the aftermath of chat for a terrible hurricanewhile, Priya becomes concerned. Chaos is all around as the emergency response struggles She decides to get steal her parents' car and drive to grips with the dead, injured and displacedBrigid's house to check up on her. Through the noticeboard at But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the rescue centre, Red basement – and Peri discover for that werewolf to be the girl she has a name. And a father. And a frightening secretbeen talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917307</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|title=Dead Ends|author=Erin Lange|rating=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 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 Move on to solve and Dane could be the perfect person to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Nomad (Faery Rebels) |author=R J Anderson|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Before we begin, you should know that ''Nomad'' is the second in a sequence. So if you haven't yet read [[Swift by R J Anderson|SwiftNewest Thrillers Reviews]], 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 and constant danger, then you'll love this book. Codes, puzzles and ancient secrets abound, and there is no doubt that the publisher's comparison with the novels for adults written by Dan Brown is justified. There's drama and deadly peril on pretty well every page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000754734X</amazonuk>}}

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