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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bubble-Wrap BoyMax Boucherat|authortitle=Phil EarleThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Tiny Charlie Han is an outsider We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at schoolwork, whose only friend is Sinusjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a fellow outcast. At homeblanket fort, she has one main intention, he suffers from an overbearing mother and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a quiet father who wonhit in Lori't stand up to hers world. But Charlie believes first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''everyone's good at something''t find herself entirely on her own, and when he then she finds a special talent for skateboarding, it might something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be the start able to enter shows signs of something special - if his mum's constant need to keep him tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe doesn't get place in his way.the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyRachel Greenlaw|title=Waterfire Saga: Deep BlueCompass and Blade

|summary=Four thousand years after Orfeo defected as one of the six magical leaders of Atlantis, created ''I can hear the most evil song of monsters, and the island sank below the sea, Serafina is preparing for a ceremony that will confirm her as the heir to a Mer realm. Sera will sing a songspell to her people and become betrothed to the prince of another Mer realm. But Sera is plagued by a strange dream, in which witches of Mer legend warn her The call of terrible danger to come. And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasiondeep, she confesses that she has had the same dreamanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Paul Dowswell|title=Red Shadow|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Moscow in 1940Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Misha's life transformed But when his father was offered the Council Watch lays a job in trap to end the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comradewrecking, Stalin. Mishathey capture the island's leader and Mira's life father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is easier secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in many ways than those search of his peers - he lives a family secret that lies buried deep in a spacious and comfortable flatthe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and he has plenty as her journey takes her from the watched streets of good food foreign islands to eat. But Russia is at war - currently allied to Hitlerthe heart of the smuggler's Germany but about territory, Mira must be determined to be betrayed by them. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable - this is stop at nothing to save the time future of her home and the purges and nobody is safe from denunciationones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Maybe One DayFrontpage|author=Melissa KantorHarry Allen|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe and Olivia are best friends. They do everything together - until Olivia is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As she tries to fight against death, Zoe wants to support her. But how can you adjust to a life where you might have to be without one Children of the people you love most in the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Keep The Faith|author=Candy HarperSun

|summary=Faith Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is backhard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and trying edible grasses to pick between the awesomely wonderful Ethan and supplement the gorgeous but not all-that-interesting Finn (my bias, not hers!) Other stuff is happening but there's little point going into details about it because let's face it, with characters like Candy Harper's they could be doing ANYTHING meagre rations of rice and it would still be amazingly goodkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078259</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomiesAlexia Casale|authortitle=Sara Zarr and Tara AltebrandoSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Roomies tells It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the story middle of two girlsa dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, EB and Lauren, who are about desperate to move into college together get back to share a roomlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's not a college tale, though - it takes place before they get therenew (cute!) boy in school, as they get in touch and start her music A Level performance piece to open up try to a stranger about their livessort out, hopes and fears, while always remembering this is someone they're going just the day to be meeting in real life and spending a lot day traumas of time with very soonall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444780158</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ash RoadSimon Fox|authortitle=Ivan SouthallDeadlock

|summary=The North Wind Late one night Graham Blake is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of Australialate back from his shift on the force, and it brings with it ferocitythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and an endless drynessjoin him on the run. Above, belowThey get together, but barely begin to either side of it, and in front smell the whiff of and behind it, is heat. This is a summer in the early 1960s and Southern trains when the land father is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunatelyarrested, through pure accidentleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, three young lads out camping in the bush have started toting a firetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and it's getting worse and worse under the conditions that are ideal for it. Although in the leeward side bearer of a large reservoir, the small community whole heap of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it is, it is…questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerLex Croucher|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town Gwen 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 and join the war to fight Art Are Not in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches 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'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Giver|author=Lois Lowry|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned 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 person. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, however. He is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, 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 to time to aid in decision making and law enforcement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Worst Girlfriend In The World|author=Sarra ManningLove|rating=4.5

|summary=It's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. Franny B's best friend Alice is the worst girlfriend Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the worlda most delightful way. She loses interest In this story, Gwen and dumps themArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, one at a timemuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Frannyyou see, sheis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's greatonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Until she gets bored of schoolboys and decides to set her sights on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the lead singer subterfuge of local band Thee Desperadoesfalling in love with each other, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for yearswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Can Alice get the guy But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or will Franny finally go for it? And is are they destined to live a lie their friendship strong enough to copewhole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AdaptationNick Brooks|authortitle=Malinda LoPromise Boys

|summary=Flocks When the principal (headmaster) of suicidal birds are throwing Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves at planes right across North America. There are dozens of crashes. Thousands of people die and millions more are stranded or under curfew called into the police station as the government moves to instil calmsuspects. Reese and David are driving Each, seemingly, not flyinghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, home along an empty highway in and each could have been there at the desert when another crazed bird flies into their cartime of his murder. They crash. And don't wake up for a month. Rescued by a medical military unit But who killed him, Reese is told that her life was saved by experimental treatments and procedures. Both she why, and David if any of the boys are made innocent, will they be able to sign non-disclosure agreements.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Edge of the CloudA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=K M PeytonKitt Townsend

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=First things first: this Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing 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. Itof robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's inevitable that there are going ll have to be spoilers in this review so if you want wait to get an answer to the best out of this series, click away right nowsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I really won't be offendedll answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FlambardsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=K M PeytonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a child standard school, and since then had is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been shunted around between various relativesrestructured, but her Uncle Russell decided that she must come and live so his desk is one of four with him both his best buddy from the football team, and his two sonsother old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. The twelveAs they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondencesex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't it?) know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the the aunt with whom she was living suspected ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that the plan was 's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that Christina would eventually marry Mark, 's mostly because of who he's been having the elder son relationship and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on her twenty-first birthday would be used to prop up Flambards - the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepairsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|title=The Year of the Rat|author=Clare FurnissFrontpage|ratingisbn=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 is left devastated – and her new sister, who she calls the Rat, is a constant painful reminder. Can she come to terms with her grief? And has her mother really gone completely, or does she keep seeing her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=The Dark HorseStitched Up|author=Rumer GoddenSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Dark Invader Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a wellhappy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-bred racehorse dressed man and had woman came to the looks village to go with offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it but he was disappointing in his first season in England an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and his owner had better uses for Hanh was on the money his sale could bringmini-bus to Hanoi. He was shipped out to India Only, which might sound rather extreme, but was not uncommon in Hanh and the nineteen thirties and there other girls were some benefits. The main one was that he was not going to work in a good owner who cared for his welfare and a trainer who realised that he would get most out of his horses if shop, they were contentedto work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. His new owner, Mr Leventine, even arranged for his lad to travel out to India You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with him the artfully-placed rips and this was probably Dark Invaderdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's greatest piece of luck. Ted Mullins not only loved the horse quite possible that Hanh and her co- he understood himworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love, Lies and Lemon PiesPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Katy CannonNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Ever since her dadBrave. 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 deathfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Lottie Annie, and has struggled taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at schooluni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, especially socially. Given and the choice creation of one such item is part of joining an activity or the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her mum getting younger sister – a home visit - something younger sister she's desperate to avoid - she signs up for Bake Cluballowed contact with no more. Initially, she's We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a reluctant memberstore detective, but as she gets and then force people to know give her two days off school bad boy Mac and a few other people who might become good friends, things look upwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But with the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie well, what exactly happens is not for me to protect her mother's secretsay, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around her?only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Laura PowellRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapseKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, Britain is close a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry drink and there are riotsmake merry between their conquests. But Aura However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is shielded from it a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all by across the Empire. He asks her position as a handmaiden in to come with him, to leave the Cult life of Artemisdreary servitude that is all she has known. In this BritainWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the beliefs of matter, because the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed Midori is destroyed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity a monstrous paper spirit known as a mainstream religionshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by She joins Himura aboard the suffering outside the sanctuary though Orihime, a sky- they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite ship whose express purpose is to take over the position hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of head priestess when Opis retires. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forbidden LibraryMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Django WexlerWrath

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Alice is Meet Fitz, a little girls whose feet are planted firmly in the here and nowyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. She's sensible. And studious. And practical. So whenLockdown is only just over, one nightand he should be free to do what he wants, she overhears a conversation between her father to go where he wants and a vicious little fairywith whom he wants, she's more than a little shaken. But before she has had time but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to process this worrying eventhis best friend, Alice's father has rushed away on Cassie. They were half of a business trip. Within daysdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the news comes that his ship has foundered and there are no survivorsearth. Alice finds herself packed off to stay Is this connected with a mysterious uncle one of her father never told her about. Geryon eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a strange man and his house is even stranger. Never-seen servants prepare food and clear done deal? Is it away. some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the servants you truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can see are strange - Mr Black sinister, Emma an automaton. There's only one rule: Alice must not enter the Libraryt...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HateTori Bovalino|authortitle=Alan GibbonsThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Six months ago, Rosie, EveWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's beloved older sisterheadmaster, died after an unprovoked hate crimeand a man Tess hates. One As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the witnessesbooks, who didnscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They't intervenere never meant to reach him, was Anthonyof course. Now he's moved school Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and ended up meeting Evethen take them all off before delivering them. Can she ever forgive him No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for his cowardice? Can he even forgive himself?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stories of World War OnePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Tony BradmanUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=World War OneIn a word, or rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Great War as Scillies. There are troll people on it was known at the time, was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors sea- for the women of Britainwitches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for the working classes magical islands and ruling classes aliketheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. 2014 is The current Darks are the centenary Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of its outbreak and activity from the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to create an anthology worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of short stories to commemorate the anniversarysea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B MissionKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Darren ShanJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ok. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers 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 series so farNE of the Scottish islands. If you don't want any Here be Vikings, then run along and read our review 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 [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]elusive Greenland shark. Otherwise And Julia, read this review at your own riskwell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Grasshopper JungleJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Andrew SmithThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Austin Scarlett McCain is confusedan 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. He's in love But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with both his girlfriend Shann dark powers and his best friend Robbya darker past. As if that wasn't a big enough problemWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, he and Robby have just managed they plan to flee to let loose an army the mythical Free Isles of preying mantises which may bring about the end London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the world. Who said EalingFree Isles, Iowa was boringbut will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273410</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert Rigby|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied Antwerp, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boy, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front of him, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew. The journey is a long and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Private Blog of Joe CowleyFrontpage|author=Ben Davis|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Joe Cowley. He's the kind of doofus who will pretend to be from New York, when his life really revolves around a horrid existence in a secondary school near Birmingham, a life shared with his mother and a visit to his dad and Russian mail-order bride every Sunday, and two friends – Harry, who speaks as if he is a member of an ancient Gentleman's Club, and Ad, who's – well, just thick as two short planks. He can barely get through the day without being tormented by his enemies at school, saying the wrong thing entirely or just cocking things up, hence this, his blog, for him to vent and escape a while. But at least he knows his worth when it comes to getting a snog off the school's most desirable girl – doesn't he? And at least he can keep the torments of real life at arm's length – can't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736752</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=A Kiss In The Dark|author=Cat Clarke|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alex and Kate meet online and there's an instant attraction between them. When they get together in person at a gig, they're just as right for each other as they are online. It seems like this could be a wonderful romance, but there's a secret at the heart of it which could destroy more than just their relationship. Will this seemingly fairytale romance have a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870477</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Daughters of Time|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bone Jack|author=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 Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to begin on this onejust joke and mess around. IWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn'm not even sure I should attempt t respond to the chat for a plot summarywhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Ultra-condensed review But what she doesn't expect to find there is basically along a werewolf in the lines of buy this right now - top five of basement – and for that werewolf to be the last decade girl she has been talking to online for me, maybe top threethe past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621655</amazonuk>1683692349

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