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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Maybe One DayMax Boucherat|authortitle=Melissa KantorThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Zoe and Olivia are best friends''I can hear the song of the sea. They do everything together - until Olivia is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As she tries to fight against deathThe call of the deep, Zoe wants to support her. But how can you adjust to a life where you might have to be without one of the people you love most answering beat in the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>}}my heart.''

{{newreview|title=Keep The Faith|author=Candy Harper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Faith is backRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and trying plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to pick between survey the awesomely wonderful Ethan ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the gorgeous but not all-that-interesting Finn (my biaswrecking, not hers!) Other stuff is happening but therethey capture the island's little point going into details about it because letleader and Mira's face itfather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with characters like Candy Harperonly coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's they could territory, Mira must be doing ANYTHING determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and it would still be amazingly goodthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078259</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomiesHarry Allen|authortitle=Sara Zarr and Tara AltebrandoChildren of the Sun

|summary=Roomies tells the story of two girls, EB and Lauren, who are about to move into college together to share a room. It's not a college tale, though - it takes place before they get there, as they get in touch and start to open up to a stranger about their Ra Eun Seo lives, hopes and fears, while always remembering this is someone they're going to be meeting in real life and spending a lot of time with very soon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444780158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ash Road|author=Ivan Southall|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The North Wind is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of Australia, Korean town and it brings with it ferocity, and an endless dryness. Above, below, to either side of it, and in front of and behind it, she is heata talented singer. This Life is a summer in the early 1960s hard and the land food is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accident, three young lads out camping in the bush have started a firedifficult to come by, so Seo and it's getting worse her friends Nari and worse under the conditions that are ideal for it. Although in the leeward side of a large reservoirMin go foraging every evening, the small community of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it is, it is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer looking for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing tree bark and join the war edible grasses to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is supplement the story of Jack's war, meagre rations of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches rice and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The GiverAlexia Casale|authortitle=Lois LowrySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered It's hard enough to, and which allow society navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to live without painnavigate a life-changing disability too, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years middle of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned a dance performance that was going to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares and provides food, they are usually a good match for the personchange her life. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role But she comes back fighting, however. He is selected desperate to be avoid the Receiver of Memorypity stares, a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time desperate to time get back to aid in decision making and law enforcement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Worst Girlfriend In The World|author=Sarra Manning|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ita life that's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys of Merrycliffe-on-Seaas normal as she can possibly manage. Franny B Meanwhile there's best friend Alice is the worst girlfriend a new (cute!) boy in the world. She loses interest and dumps themschool, one at a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend her music A Level performance piece to try to fashion-obsessed Frannysort out, she's great. Until she gets bored of schoolboys and decides just the day to set her sights on the lead singer day traumas of local band Thee Desperadoes, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for years. Can Alice get all the guy, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough challenges her body continues to cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Adaptation|author=Malinda Lo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Flocks of suicidal birds are throwing themselves throw at planes right across North America. There are dozens of crashes. Thousands of people die and millions more are stranded or under curfew as the government moves her to instil calmnavigate. Reese and David are driving, not flying, home along an empty highway in the desert when another crazed bird flies into their car. They crash. And don So even though she can't wake up for a month. Rescued by a medical military unitdance anymore, Reese is told that her life was saved by experimental treatments and procedures. Both might she and David are made to sign non-disclosure agreements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Edge of the Cloud|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First things first: this is a brilliant book and you could read it on its own but it's an extra-brilliant book if you've read the [[Flambards by K M Peyton|first book]] in the Flambards series. It's inevitable that there are going to be spoilers in this review so if you want able to get the best out of this series, click away right now. I really won't be offended.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FlambardsSimon Fox|authortitle=K M PeytonDeadlock

|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and since then had been shunted around between various relativessuddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, but her Uncle Russell decided that she must come and live with join him and his two sonson the run. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondenceThey get together, doesn't it?) that the the aunt with whom she was living suspected that the plan was that Christina would eventually marry Mark, the elder son and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on her twenty-first birthday would be used but barely begin to prop up Flambards - smell the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Year whiff of Southern trains when the Rat|author=Clare Furniss|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pearl couldn’t imagine life without her mother, but now she’s forced to face up to it. After her mum passes away giving birth to a new baby, Pearl father is left devastated – and her new sisterarrested, who she calls leaving Archie on the Rat, is a constant painful reminder. Can she come late express to terms with her grief? And has her mother really gone completelyBrighton, or does she keep seeing her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Dark Horse|author=Rumer Godden|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Dark Invader was toting a well-bred racehorse and had the looks to go with it but he was disappointing in tin his first season in England and his owner had better uses for the money his sale could bring. He father was shipped out determined to Indiakeep away from his colleagues, which might sound rather extreme, but was not uncommon in and the nineteen thirties and there were some benefits. The main one was that he was going to bearer of a good owner who cared for his welfare and a trainer who realised that he would get most out whole heap of his horses if they were contented. His new owner, Mr Leventine, even arranged for his lad to travel out to India with him and this was probably Dark Invader's greatest piece of luck. Ted Mullins not only loved the horse - he understood himquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love, Lies and Lemon PiesLex Croucher|authortitle=Katy CannonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Ever Who 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. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since her dad's deaththey were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, Lottie has struggled at schoolyou see, especially socially. Given is in love with Bridget (the choice of joining an activity or her mum getting a home visit - something shekingdom's desperate to avoid only female knight) - she signs up for Bake Clubsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Initially, she's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant memberallies, but as she gets to know school bad boy Mac and a few creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other people who might become good friends, things look upwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But with the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie to protect her mother's secretas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around herthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessNick Brooks|authortitle=Laura PowellPromise Boys

|summary=After an economic collapseWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Britain is close to breaking pointthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Citizens are going hungry Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in at the Cult time of Artemishis murder. In this Britain But who killed him, the beliefs and why, and if any of the Ancient Greeks persevere and boys are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - innocent, will they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite be able to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Forbidden LibraryA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Django WexlerKitt Townsend

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Alice is a little girls whose feet are planted firmly in the here and now. SheSolomon Klyne isn's sensible. And studious. And practical. So when, one night, she overhears t a conversation between her father and a vicious little fairybad lad, she's more than so why is he running around London committing a little shaken. But before she has had time series of robberies? And how did he learn to process this worrying event, Alicecrack safes? You's father has rushed away on a business trip. Within days, the news comes that his ship has foundered and there are no survivors. Alice finds herself packed off ll have to wait to get an answer to stay with a mysterious uncle her father never told her about. Geryon is a strange man and his house is even stranger. Never-seen servants prepare food and clear it away. And the servants you can see are strange - Mr Black sinister, Emma an automatonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. ThereBut I's only ll answer the first one rule: Alice must not enter the Libraryfor his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HatePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Alan GibbonsDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Six months agoAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Rosieand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Eveso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's beloved older sisterre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, died after an unprovoked hate crimethe talk in class and out often turns to sex. One of the witnesses Which is confusing for Ant, who didnas he doesn't interveneknow what his score is, was Anthonywhere his achievements in that regard lie. Now he He's moved school had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and ended so has effectively progressed up meeting Evethe ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Can she ever forgive him for his cowardice? Can And that's mostly because of who he even forgive himself?'s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stories of World War OneStitched Up|author=Tony BradmanSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=World War OneTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, or if not prosperous, so when the Great War as smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was known at the time, was a cataclysmic waran opportunity not to be missed. Millions died Some money changed hands and life Hanh was changed forever for on the survivors mini- for the women of Britainbus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and for the working classes and ruling classes alikeother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. 2014 is You know those jeans you really wanted: the centenary of its outbreak ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate legs? The ones with the anniversaryartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B MissionPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Darren ShanNeedle|rating=43

|summary=OkBrave. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for the series so farsome people to like, characters and readers both. If you don Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she't want anys fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, then run along and read our review 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 comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]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 allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Otherwisewell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, read this review at your own riskonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Grasshopper JungleAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Andrew SmithRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Austin Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is confuseda Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He's in love asks her to come with both his girlfriend Shann and his best friend Robbyhim, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. As if that wasnWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a big enough problemshikigami, he and Robby have just managed she is forced to let loose an army of preying mantises which may bring about the end of flee out into the world. Who said EalingShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Iowa was boring?a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273410</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eagle TrailMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Robert RigbyWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpMeet Fitz, where Paul lives with his English father and French mothera young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life Lockdown is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boyonly just over, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoonand he should be free to do what he wants, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front of himto go where he wants and with whom he wants, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds but he cannot stop himself fleeing for from putting his lifefoot in it when he talks to his best friend, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knewCassie. The journey is They were half of a long and dangerous desultory school band, but Cassie was also one - through Belgium and France for hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for Englandearth. Every stage is dangerous but the final Is this connected with one of her eco- warrior parents saying the Eagle Trail across end of the mountains - world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the most periloustruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Private Blog of Joe CowleyTori Bovalino|authortitle=Ben DavisThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Meet Joe Cowley. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the kind of doofus who will pretend last thing Tess Matheson wants to be from New York, do — especially when his life really revolves around she gets a horrid existence in request for over a secondary hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school near Birmingham's headmaster, and a life shared with his mother man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a visit to his dad and Russian maillarge request, Tess sticks post-order bride every Sundayit notes on each of the books, and two friends – Harry, who speaks as if he is a member scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of an ancient Gentleman. They's Clubre never meant to reach him, and Ad, who's – well, just thick as two short planksof course. He can barely Her plan is to get through the day without being tormented by his enemies at school, saying the wrong thing entirely or just cocking things up, hence her anger out like this, his blog, for him to vent and escape a whilethen take them all off before delivering them. But at least he knows his worth when No harm done… Or it comes to getting a snog off the school's most desirable girl – doesnwould be, if someone hadn't he? And at least he can keep the torments of real life at arm's length – can't he?delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736752</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kiss In The DarkPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Cat ClarkeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alex and Kate meet online and there's In a word, rich. There is certainly an instant attraction between them. When they get together abundance of riches in person at this story set on a gigpeculiar island called Wildsea, they're just as right British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for each other as they magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are online. It seems like this could be a wonderful romancethe Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, but thereand Andrewe's a secret at foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the heart world of protecting their island, like it which could destroy more than just their relationshipor not. Will this seemingly fairytale romance have a happy ending?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870477</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Daughters of TimeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Mary Hoffman (editor)Julia and the Shark

|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and younger teens on their cat from the subject family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of ''some the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of history's most remarkable women''Scottish island. It's an interesting idea Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, particularly as while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the usual suspects are perhaps avoidedelusive Greenland shark. No Elizabeth IAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, Mary Queen rejecting the draconian conformity of Scotsthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Victoriarobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, or Florence Nightingalea 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. Instead we get BoudicaTogether, Mary Seacolethey must brave man-eating wildlife, Aphra Behn the cannibalistic Tainted and Julian all the horrors of Norwichpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but will they be any more accepted there than they are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bone JackMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Sara CroweSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=15-year-old Ash Gracie Welles has been waiting for his father resigned herself to come back from the warbeing lonely. He's following As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in his dadpeople's footsteps as the stag lives. But when she defends a random boy in the traditional Stag Chaseher class with her slingshot, and he knows his dad will be proud of himher simple existence is changed for good. Running through the mountains whenever he No longer can to trainshe spend her time writing novels in solitude, he's not bothered by the taunts of the other boys who he beat to become the stag, and who will take their places as hounds - he knows their hostility is traditional. But something is stirring for her life now has a boy in the countryside, and he sees strange visions, while his old friend Mark is behaving seriously creepilyit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Is Mark just grieving for his father, or is there something more sinister at work?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440058</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Blood ListT L Huchu|authortitle=Sarah NaughtonThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the mid-seventeenth centuryRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the world is filled with tales dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of witchesschool, murder she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and changelingsher aging grandmother. Sixteen-year-old Barnaby is strong and handsomeHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. His father Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a wealthy landowner who indulges missing boy at the request of his desires, dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and while his mother doesn't love him - believing him to be merely a replacement for her own baby, who realise that the villagers thought was a changeling world of magic is far bigger and who was mysteriously switched - hemore dangerous than she ever could's popular with everyone else he knowsve imagined. Until dark happenings start occurringWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, which or will change Barnaby's life - or possibly even end it.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078666</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Far From YouKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Tess SharpeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=I have no idea where Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to begin on this one. I'm not even sure I should attempt a plot summary. Ultra-condensed review is basically along terms with the lines of buy this right now - top five of the last decade fact that she may be in constant pain for me, maybe top three.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621655</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender|author=Leslye Walton|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ava Lavender is the youngest in a long line rest of strange womenher life. Her mother is strange. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts were strange. But AvaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', perhaps, is the strangest of all. Because an online support group where she was born with wings. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, this winged girl narrates the story of her family and how they came talks to live in the magical Seattle neighbourhood where her grandmother runs a bakery. It's a tale bunch of magic but it's also a tale of tragedy and disaster and death and lost love. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow other teens living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. And as she tells the story, Ava tries to make sense of herself. She isn't normal. Is normal better? Or do her wings come with a special destiny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Never Ending|author=Martyn Bedford|rating=3chronic illnesses.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sent to a clinic which specialises in using unconventional methods to They talk about their troubles and help people get over griefeach other out, Shiv is forced while also providing an escape to confront the death just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her beloved younger brother Declan. 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 doesnclosest friends—doesn't think she deserves it herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Going Over|author=Beth Kephart|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ada is someone whom many of respond to the readers of this book would aspire to be – only fifteen but working at chat for a Kindergartenwhile, changing her appearance at whim with fake beauty spots and punky hair-dye, spending far too many midnight hours creating politicised graffitiPriya becomes concerned. She also lives in one of the most libertarian and Bohemian areas of Berlin. Or, I should say, West Berlin – for this is the early 1980s and the Wall is still standing. And unfortunately for her the love of her life is Stefan, a friend since toddler-age due decides to their grandmothers being best friends, and she can only see him three or four times a year as he lives in Communist East Berlin. Can steal her patience with what she sees as his reluctance to risk his life to escape last long enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452124574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Curses parents' car and Smoke|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 drive to beat. Lucia, his ownerBrigid's daughter and his childhood friend, wants house to be with him instead of the rich man check up on her. But what she doesn't love but is betrothed expect 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 find there's something even worse on its way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146629</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Scavenger 1: Zoid|author=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|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 werewolf in 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 basement – 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 for that serves as werewolf to be the whole world girl she has been talking to online for the young worker known as York gets wiped out, he gets the clearest picture yet of how difficult that battle will be…past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>1683692349

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