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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows Last Life of Ava Lavender|author=Leslye WaltonLori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ava Lavender is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the youngest house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a long line of strange women. Her , babysitter poorly, mother is strange. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts were strange. But Avaat work, perhapsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, is the strangest of allon her lonesome. Because What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she was born with wings. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavenderhas one main intention, this winged girl narrates the story of her family and how they came that is to live in log on to Voxminer, the magical Seattle neighbourhood where her grandmother runs world-building, critter-collecting game that is a bakery. Ithit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tale of magic but ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's also a tale of tragedy t find herself entirely on her own, and disaster then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and death her bestie and lost love. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. And as she tells the story, Ava tries nobody else should be able to make sense enter shows signs of herselftampering. She isn't normal. Is normal better? Or do When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her wings come with safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a special destinygirl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never EndingRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Martyn BedfordCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sent to ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a clinic which specialises in using unconventional methods to help people get over griefremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Shiv is forced one of the seven who swim out to confront survey the death of her beloved younger brother Declanruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Like everyone else in But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the clinicwrecking, she’s convinced that she caused they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death herself. Will , Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she finally find sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the peace that sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her parents are seeking for journey takes herfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, even if Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she doesn't think she deserves it herself?holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329924</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Going OverHarry Allen|authortitle=Beth KephartChildren of the Sun|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ada Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is someone whom many of the readers of this book would aspire a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to be – only fifteen but working at a Kindergartencome by, changing so Seo and her appearance at whim with fake beauty spots friends Nari and punky hair-dye, spending far too many midnight hours creating politicised graffiti. She also lives in one of the most libertarian and Bohemian areas of Berlin. Or, I should sayMin go foraging every evening, West Berlin – looking for this is the early 1980s tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Wall is still standing. And unfortunately for her the love meagre rations of her life is Stefan, a friend since toddler-age due to their grandmothers being best friends, rice and she can only see him three or four times a year as he lives in Communist East Berlinkimchi at home. Can her patience with what she sees as his reluctance to risk his life to escape last long enough?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452124574</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Curses and SmokeAlexia Casale|authortitle=Vicky Alvear ShecterSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Medical slave Tag is desperate It's hard enough to win his freedom by fighting in the arena instead of just treating the gladiators he longs navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to beat. Lucianavigate a life-changing disability too, his ownerbut that's daughter and his childhood friend, wants to be what Ven is dealing with him instead of after collapsing on stage in the rich man she doesn't love but is betrothed to. When Quintus, an arrogant younger son middle of a nobleman, joins the gladiatorial school to train - and dance performance that was going to infuriate his father - we see the beginning of a love triangle which could have devastating consequenceschange her life. But the year is 79 ADshe comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the place is Pompeiipity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's something 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 worse on its though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way...through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146629</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scavenger 1: ZoidSimon Fox|authortitle=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellDeadlock|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Somewhere out in the further reaches of the galaxy Late one night Graham Blake is a spherical construction, speeding the last few surviving Earth humans late back from his shift on their way to a different, new home, a giant biosphere acting as the one remaining Ark for what's left of humankind. And its purpose is even more important as, somewhen, somewhere and somehow, during its flight, the robot inhabitants – the cleanersforce, butlers, farmers and mechanics – rebelled. Since then they have evolved themselvessuddenly rings Archie, and ignored all their original programmingdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and are intent join him on wiping out humans insteadthe run. WeThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of courseSouthern trains when the father is arrested, are fighting backleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, but when and the tiny community bearer of little more than a hundred that serves as the whole world for the young worker known as York gets wiped out, he gets the clearest picture yet heap of how difficult that battle will be…questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreview|title=Urban OutlawsFrontpage|author=Peter Jay BlackLex Croucher|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=What skills would you need to trick the rich Gwen and powerful out of their ill-gotten gains? A posse of brilliant lawyers and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache of guns and bombs? Well, maybe, although it is very possible that all that will do is to turn you into villains as dirty as your marks. And, if you'll forgive the sudden descent into street-speak, that's not the way these five young Urban Outlaws roll.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408851415</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=White Space|author=Ilsa J BickArt 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 principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is bigmurdered, a life changing amount of money for the person who can hold their own three boys find themselves called into the longest and outlast their competitorspolice station as suspects. Anyone from the graduating class Each, seemingly, has a grudge of high school can entersome description against Principal Moore, and many do, but in each could have been there at the end, only one can wintime of his murder. Along the way the contestants’ limits are tested But who killed him, pacts made and brokenwhy, and secrets revealed. From some if any of the challengesboys are innocent, there may will they be injuries, traumatic or even fatal, but the lure of the prize money is so great that many choose able to ignore the risks.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444723022</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreview|title=Half Bad|author=Sally GreenFrontpage|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genre, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability 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. So, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1919635017|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 Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Josh's parents disappeared he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and Rose is determined finally with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to start getting on with her lifehis best friend, Cassie. She hasn't seen Josh for They were half of a few weeks and although she misses himdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she can't but help feeling could hear a sense subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of relief. But then policeman Henry turns up at her door with more bad news: eco-warrior parents saying the body end of the world is already a teenage girl has been found buried in the garden done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of her old home, ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the one she shared with her mothertruth? Well, Josh, and his father Brendan. With their parents implicated, Rose and Josh have no choice but to try to solve one last murdernot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815532</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster family, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn'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.
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{{newreview
|title=The God Beneath the Sea
|author=Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When a baby falls from the sky into the sea, Thetis, goddess of the sea, takes him into her care and names him Hephaestus. Raised lovingly by Thetis and her sister Eurynome, Hephaestus still grows to question who he is and where he came from. The sisters tell him he was born on Olympus, and so begins the twisting turning tales of the Titans and the Gods - their battles for supremacy, their betrayals, their vengeance.
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{{newreview
|title=The Spectacular Now
|author=Tim Tharp
|rating=5
|genre=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, 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?
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Vengeance
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Vengeance'' s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a follow-up request for over a hundred books that she has to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]]deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, in which Delaney almost diedTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, drowned under scribbled with the ice ugliest insults she can think of a lake. Things They're never got back meant to normal after that. Delaney can sense deathreach him, of course. She Her plan 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 anger outlike this, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursedand then take them all off before delivering them. It wanted Delaney andNo harm done… Or it would be, denied if someone hadn't delivered them for her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=The Children Utterly Dark and the Face of the King|author=Sonya HartnettDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In a prosperous area word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of London during World War II the two Lockwood childrenriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, twelve year old Cecily and her older brother JeremyBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are dispatchedtroll people on it, together with their socialite motherand sea-witches, to stay with and legends of the Dark family in the north that has to keep them safe. On watch for magical islands and their arrivalmonster approaching from even further west, at Cecily’s insistencewhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, they take in a young evacueeAndrewe, ten year old May. As they wander the countryside close who has to Cecily’s Uncle Peregrine’s country estate keep notes of activity from the two girls find two strange boys hiding Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in the ruins of Snow Castle and do not tell the rest of the family London with too much science in his head to worry about their discovery. As the children attempt to cope with their changed circumstances such local yokel superstitions, and the fear of an approaching enemyAndrewe's foundling daughter, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells the children a dark and sinister story who washed up out of intrigue in the Royal courts of long sea one day eleven years ago . But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and so begins his curious ward are thrust into the story within a story. This intriguing book then goes on to combine two periods world of English history in an extraordinary adventure that is protecting their island, like it or not only an historical novel but a moving coming of age story too.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407137514</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreview|title=Tilly's PromiseFrontpage|author=Linda Newbery|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on a nurse and finally her brother Georgie is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for service. Georgie is different, big Kiran Millwood Hargrave and strong but with the mind of a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are made, 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 unit, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenches, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurse. Everything seems to have changed. Will even love remain the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTom de Freston|title=Boys Don't Knit|author=T S Easton|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ben Fletcher is a pleasant Julia and fairly quiet boy - so when the 17-year-old gets roped into taking part in the Great Trolley Robbery to grab some booze for a party, it's just his luck that he's the one who ends up getting assaulted by a lollipop lady and put on probation! Forced to keep a journal, give back to the victim of his crime, and take up an approved hobby, he reluctantly chooses knitting - only to find a real talent for it. Can he keep his new-found hobby a secret from his dad and his mates, get the girl of his dreams, and become a champion knitter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471401472</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Kissing Game|author=Jean UreShark
|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
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition. His equally mangy dogHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Nelson, is Priya has to come to terms with the only friend he has, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he fact that she may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out constant pain for the worst rest of his racist views - but can her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone bunch of another colour? Is Nick other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just an ignorant joke and offensive old gitmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to have really bothered check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find out before there is a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to attempt be the girl she has been talking to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but online for the lonely old man as wellpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>1683692349
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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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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