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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Far From YouMax Boucherat|authortitle=Tess SharpeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I have We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no idea where neighbour to begin pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on this her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has onemain intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. I But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'm not t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even sure I should attempt a plot summarymore spooky. Ultra-condensed review is basically along For the lines of buy this right now - top five server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the last decade for megame has been doctored – well, maybe top three.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621655</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava LavenderRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Leslye WaltonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Ava Lavender is ''I can hear the youngest in a long line song of strange women. Her mother is strange. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts were strange. But Ava, perhaps, is the strangest of all. Because she was born with wingssea. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows call of Ava Lavenderthe deep, this winged girl narrates the story of her family and how they came to live answering beat in the magical Seattle neighbourhood where her grandmother runs a bakerymy heart.''

It's Rosevear, a tale 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 magic but itthe 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 also a tale of tragedy and disaster 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 lost lovewith only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. And With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as she tells her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the storysmuggler's territory, Ava tries Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to make sense save the future of herselfher home and the ones she holds most dear. She isn't normal. Is normal better? Or do her wings come with a special destiny?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never EndingHarry Allen|authortitle=Martyn BedfordChildren of the Sun|rating=3.5

|summary=Sent to Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a clinic which specialises in using unconventional methods talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to help people get over griefcome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Shiv is forced looking for tree bark and edible grasses to confront supplement the death meagre rations of her beloved younger brother Declanrice and kimchi at home. Like everyone else in the clinic, she’s convinced that she caused the death herself. Will she finally find the peace that her parents are seeking for her, even if she doesn't think she deserves it herself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329924</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Going OverAlexia Casale|authortitle=Beth KephartSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5

|summary=Ada is someone whom many of the readers of this book would aspire It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to be – only fifteen but working at navigate a Kindergartenlife-changing disability too, changing her appearance at whim but that's what Ven is dealing with fake beauty spots and punky hair-dye, spending far too many midnight hours creating politicised graffiti. She also lives after collapsing on stage in one of the most libertarian and Bohemian areas middle of Berlina dance performance that was going to change her life. OrBut she comes back fighting, I should saydesperate to avoid the pity stares, West Berlin – for this is the early 1980s and the Wall is still standingdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. And unfortunately for Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the love day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her life is Stefan, a friend since toddler-age due to their grandmothers being best friends, and navigate. So even though she can only see him three or four times a year as he lives in Communist East Berlin. Can her patience with what 't dance anymore, might she sees as his reluctance be able to risk his life to escape last long enoughsing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452124574</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=Curses and SmokeFrontpage|author=Vicky Alvear Shecter|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Medical slave Tag is desperate to win his freedom by fighting in the arena instead of just treating the gladiators he longs to beat. Lucia, his owner's daughter and his childhood friend, wants to be with him instead of the rich man she doesn't love but is betrothed to. When Quintus, an arrogant younger son of a nobleman, joins the gladiatorial school to train - and to infuriate his father - we see the beginning of a love triangle which could have devastating consequences. But the year is 79 AD, the place is Pompeii, and there's something even worse on its way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146629</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=Scavenger 1: Zoid|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellDeadlock|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Somewhere out in the further reaches of the galaxy is a spherical construction, speeding the last few surviving Earth humans 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 cleaners, butlers, farmers and mechanics – rebelled. Since then they have evolved themselves, and ignored all their original programming, and are intent on wiping out humans instead. We, of course, are fighting back, but when the tiny community 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 of how difficult that battle will be…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Urban Outlaws|author=Peter Jay Black|rating=5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=White SpaceLex Croucher|authortitle=Ilsa J BickGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IronheartNick Brooks|authortitle=Allan BoroughsPromise Boys

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Facts of Life (Rachel Riley)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Joanna NadinKitt Townsend

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rock WarPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Robert MuchamoreDifferent for Boys

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Infinity Drake: The Sons of ScarlattiStitched Up|author=John McNallySteve Cole

|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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TroublePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Non PrattNeedle|rating=53

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead and Buried (Murder Notebooks) Marcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Anne Cassidy Wrath

|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

 {{newreview|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) Frontpage|author=Teri Terry|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The God Beneath the Sea|author=Leon Garfield and Edward BlishenDevil Makes Three

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spectacular Now Philip Reeve|authortitle=Tim TharpUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sutter KeelyIn a word, The Suttermanrich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, has life pretty goodbeyond the Scillies. SureThere are troll people on it, he's got no longand sea-term plan witches, and may spend his life folding shirts, but he's having a ton legends of funthe Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, he's hugely popular - even his ex-girlfriends still like him - and his relationship with the wonderful Cassidy will get back on track soon enoughwhere no ship dare sail. Then he meets The current Darks are the sci-fi obsessedWatcher, shyAndrewe, put-upon Aimeewho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, and decides he can make a difference his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in her life. The plan is his head to help her gain some confidence, become popularworry about such local yokel superstitions, and find a nice guy - but Sutter doesnAndrewe't bargain on things going further than he was planning ons foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Will he change Aimee's life for But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the betterworld of protecting their island, like it or for the worse?not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146459</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=VengeanceJulia and the Shark

|summary=In a prosperous area of London during World War II the two Lockwood childrenJulia, twelve year old Cecily and her older brother Jeremyour pre-teen heroine, are dispatched, together has been packed off with her parents and their socialite mother, to stay with cat from the family home in the north SW England to keep them safe. On their arrival, at Cecily’s insistence, they take in be lighthousekeepers for a young evacueesummer, ten year old May. 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 far NE of Snow Castle and do not tell the rest of the family about their discoveryScottish islands. As the children attempt to cope with their changed circumstances and the fear of an approaching enemy Here be Vikings, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells the children a dark and sinister story that kind of intrigue in the Royal courts of long ago and so begins the story within a storyScottish island. This intriguing book then goes on Dad is going 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 be automating the sleepy little village she called homelantern, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins upwhich is his specialist thing, then Tilly signs on a nurse and finally while mum will be leaving her brother Georgie is called up, despite career in algae behind to hunt the fact that he is completely unfit for serviceelusive Greenland shark. Georgie is different And Julia, big and strong but with the mind of a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are madewell, 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 homesick and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenches, Tilly alone – until she suddenly finds herself near the frontline as a nursecompany one night. Everything seems to have changed. Will even love remain the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boys Don't KnitJonathan Stroud|authortitle=T S EastonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Ben Fletcher Scarlett McCain is a pleasant an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and fairly quiet boy - so when Faith Houses to wander the 17-year-old gets roped into taking part in wildlands between the Great Trolley Robbery Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to grab some booze for a partykeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, it's just his luck that he's the one who ends up getting assaulted by a lollipop lady dark boy with dark powers and put on probation! Forced to keep a journaldarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, give back they plan to flee to the victim mythical Free Isles of his crimethe London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and take up an approved hobby, he reluctantly chooses knitting all the horrors of post- only apocalyptic society to find a real talent for it. Can he keep his new-found hobby a secret from his dad and his matesreach the Free Isles, get but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the girl rest of his dreams, and become a champion knitterBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471401472</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|title=The Kissing GameFrontpage|author=Jean Ure|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Salvatore d'Amato - sometimes nicknamed Sally Tomato - is twelve years old and has never been kissed. He's determined to change that before his next birthday. But will Lucy, the object of his affections, ever return them? He has a secret weapon - his poetry. Is it going to win her heart, or just disgust her? And will Harmony Hynde, the girl in his class who works as a library assistant, stop bothering him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007519516</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Unnatural Creatures|author=Neil GaimanSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''I wished I could visit Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a Museum secret illegitimate daughter of Unnatural History, but even so, I was glad there wasn't one... If someone actually caught a werewolf, or man with a dragon"real" family, if they tamed she is used to not being a manticore or stabled priority in people's lives. But when she defends a unicorn, put them random boy in bottlesher class with her slingshot, dissected them, then they could be only one thing, and they would no her simple existence is changed for good. No longer live can she spend her time writing novels in the shadowy places between the things I knew and the world of the impossiblesolitude, which was, I was certain, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman for her life now has a boy in the introduction to this anthology of sixteen ''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not to capitalise, it that is the question)she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanT L Huchu|title=ZOM-B GladiatorThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING: ''Gladiator'' Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sixth book in the ''ZOM-B'' seriesdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, so if you donshe't want s been using it to catch any spoilerssupport not only herself, look away nowbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. DonHowever, there't say I didns an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city't warn yous children. YouSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could're goneve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, rightor will it claim her too? Good.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077724</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in TwoKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Catherynne M ValenteLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=A while ago a friend recommended a book called [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in a Ship constant pain for the rest of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a Ship bunch of Her Own Making]]other teens living with chronic illnesses. I have 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 closest friends—doesn't respond to say, the title alone intrigued mechat for a while, but somehow that title sat on my Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents'car and drive to getBrigid' pile and I never actually got around s house to reading itcheck up on her. Since then several other people (all adults) have suggested I might like it, so when I saw the latest book in this series was available I decided But what she doesn't expect to give it find there is a try. I really should have read the first two books, I think. This is the third werewolf in the series, basement – and I believe there are going for that werewolf to be five altogetherthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. There are some series which you can dip into without feeling too lost, but this isn't one of them!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110218</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Old Dog, New Tricks|author=Bali Rai|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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]