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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kiss In The DarkMax Boucherat|authortitle=Cat ClarkeThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens We meet Lori on the subject of ''some of historyfirst evening she's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting ideagot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth Ibabysitter poorly, Mary Queen of Scotsmother at work, Victoriajust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, or Florence Nightingaleon her lonesome. Instead we get Boudica What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Mary Seacoleshe has one main intention, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwichthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, amongst otherscritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. It But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to make it enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well worth , where is a look.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bone JackRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Sara CroweCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=15-year-old Ash has been waiting for his father to come back from the war. He's following in his dad's footsteps as I can hear the stag boy in song of the traditional Stag Chase, and he knows his dad will be proud sea. The call of him. Running through the mountains whenever he can to traindeep, he's not bothered by the taunts of the other boys who he answering beat to become the stag, and who will take their places as hounds - he knows their hostility is traditional. But something is stirring in the countryside, and he sees strange visions, while his old friend Mark is behaving seriously creepilymy heart. Is Mark just grieving for his father, or is there something more sinister at work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440058</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Far From YouHarry Allen|authortitle=Tess SharpeChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I have no idea where to begin on this one. I'm not even sure I should attempt Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a plot summarytalented singer. Ultra-condensed review Life is basically along 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 lines meagre rations of buy this right now - top five of the last decade for me, maybe top threerice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621655</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava LavenderAlexia Casale|authortitle=Leslye WaltonSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ava Lavender is the youngest in It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a long line of strange women. Her mother is strange. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts were strange. But Ava, perhapslife-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the strangest middle of alla dance performance that was going to change her life. Because But she was born with wings. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavendercomes back fighting, this winged girl narrates desperate to avoid the story of her family pity stares, and how they came desperate to get back to live in the magical Seattle neighbourhood where her grandmother runs a bakery. Itlife that's a tale of magic but itas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's also a tale of tragedy new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and disaster and death and lost love. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. And as she tells just the story, Ava tries day to make sense day traumas of herselfall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. She isn So even though she can't normal. Is normal better? Or do dance anymore, might she be able to sing her wings come with a special destinyway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>0571373801
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|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=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 her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be at school but Grandma has gone off missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a knitting cruiseshop, so she will never know. But before they can be on their way, Al is summoned were to a crisis meeting with secret government officialswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. A lethal bio-weapon - You know those jeans you really wanted: the Scarlatti wasp - has been stolen ones with intricate embroidery and released by an uberbeading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-villain (who else but an uber-villain) placed rips and the worlddistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's only chance is to use Al's top secret invention to shrink a combat team to destroy itquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521588</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sleuth or Dare: An AKA NovelPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Robin BenwayNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=When safecracker Maggie SilverBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's parents are falsely accused fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a crimecomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's uprooted from allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her newly peaceful existence as belligerence with a normal high-school girl store detective, and forced then force people to fleegive her two days off school, along with best friend Roux and boyfriend Jessiewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to Paris. Can the three of themsay, aided by some new friends only to remark how sharp and honorary uncle Angelo, clear her family's name?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111676X</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TroubleAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Non PrattRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hannah is 15 and pregnant. She can't tell anyone who the father is - but new boy at school Aaron steps up to offer his services Kurara has spent her entire life as a fake father. Hannah acceptsservant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and the pair start make merry between their journey to parenthoodconquests. But who really is the dadHowever, and why when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is Aaron willing to make such a massive commitment Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a girl he doesn't even know that well?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rooftoppers|author=Katherine Rundell|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie is shipwrecked in power sought after all across the English Channel on Empire. He asks her 1st birthday, to come with her mother presumed deadhim, 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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{{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
|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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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spectacular Now Philip Reeve|authortitle=Tim TharpUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=VengeanceJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.
|isbn=1510107789
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{{Frontpage
|author= Jonathan Stroud
|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= 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 Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?
|isbn=1406394815
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{{Frontpage
|author=Mercedes Helnwein
|title=Slingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Vengeance'' is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice secret illegitimate daughter of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She man with a "real" family, she is irresistibly drawn used to not being a priority in people who are about to die's lives. And people take But when she defends a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the random boy who pulled in her class with her outslingshot, her simple existence is deadchanged for good. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied No longer can she spend her, is now taking others time writing novels in some kind of freakish revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Children of the King|author=Sonya Hartnett|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a prosperous area of London during World War II the two Lockwood childrensolitude, twelve year old Cecily and for her older brother Jeremy, are dispatched, together with their socialite mother, to stay with family in the north to keep them safe. On their arrival, at Cecily’s insistence, they take in life now has a young evacuee, 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 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 an approaching enemy, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells the children a dark and sinister story of intrigue boy in the Royal courts of long ago and so begins the story within a story. This intriguing book then goes on to combine two periods of English history in an extraordinary adventure it that is not only an historical novel but a moving coming of age story tooshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407137514</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tilly's PromiseT L Huchu|authortitle=Linda NewberyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sleepy little village dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she called homedropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on a nurse younger sister and finally her brother Georgie is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for serviceaging grandmother. Georgie is differentHowever, big and strong but with there's an evil stalking the mind ruined streets of a child - how could he possibly survive Edinburgh, targeting the horrors of war? So many promises are made, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he woncity't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words)s children. When Georgie Soon, Ropa is posted to Harry's unit, Tilly extracts pulled into the search for a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brothermissing boy at the request of his dead mother. More promises She will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie end up discovering an occult library and Harry face realise that the harsh reality world of life in the trenches, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurse. Everything seems to have changedmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will even love remain she find the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promisemissing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boys DonKristen O't KnitNeal|authortitle=T S EastonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ben Fletcher is a pleasant and fairly quiet boy - so when Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the 17-year-old gets roped into taking part fact that she may be in constant pain for the Great Trolley Robbery rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to grab some booze for a partybunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, it's while also providing an escape to just his luck that hejoke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's t respond to the one who ends up getting assaulted by chat for a lollipop lady while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and put on probation! Forced drive to keep a journal, give back Brigid's house to the victim of his crime, and take check up an approved hobby, he reluctantly chooses knitting - only on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a real talent werewolf in the basement – and for it. Can he keep his new-found hobby a secret from his dad and his mates, get that werewolf to be the girl of his dreams, and become a champion knitter?she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471401472</amazonuk>1683692349
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