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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir) by Maya Van Wagenen: thoughtful, fun memoir. Worth a read: http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Popular:_Vintage_Wisdom_for_a_Modern_Geek_(A_Memoir)_by_Maya_Van_Wagenen #YALIT {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)Max Boucherat|authortitle=Maya Van WagenenThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the age of 13house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularitybabysitter poorly, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy mother at school and intrigued by what work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her dad calls its ''outdated ideas''lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she secretly decides has one main intention, and that is to try and change her life by putting log on to Voxminer, the book into practiceworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a chapter a monthhit in Lori's world. But surely first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her dad is rightown, and Betty's words have no place in then she finds something even more spooky. For the modern world? Read this server she and find out!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Serpent House|author=Bea Davenport|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1898 and Annie is living a miserable existence with her aunt bestie and cousinsnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Not long orphaned When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she misses and her mam every day. So Annie safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is overjoyed when her brother's employer Lady Hexer allows him a girl to bring his sister to live with him on a cottage on the estate at Hexer Hall. Lady Hexer takes an interest in both brother and sister. But whyturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Rachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Helen DouglasCompass and Blade

|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is I can hear the follow-up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save song of the world from disaster by preventing sea. The call of the discovery of a far-off planet. In so doingdeep, he falls the answering beat in love with Edenmy heart. In this second story, Ryan travels back once again - this time to save Eden's life. And now Eden must make a sacrifice, too. The boy she loves has given up everything to save her and now she must give up everything to save him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Sentinel|author=Joshua Winning|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book Mira, like her mother before her, is not as typical one of fantasy the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and mild horror as any treasure that lies within. But when the summary might suggest. Unlike Council Watch lays a lot of stories where we join trap to end the main character in wrecking, they capture the aftermath of island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a major event, this one begins before Nicholas wreck survivor who is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journeycharming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, coming so soon after she sets off in search of a menacing and mysterious prologuefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, makes it pretty clear as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to us that they wonthe heart of the smuggler't s territory, Mira must be returning, determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Boys KissingHarry Allen|authortitle=David LevithanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Two boys - no longer Ra Eun Seo lives in a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high schoolNorth Korean town and she is a talented singer. But this Life is no ordinary kiss. This hard and food is a kiss which they intend to last over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kiss. Their friend will document it, spreading the world difficult tocome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and beyondMin go foraging every evening, their community, some of whom will be supportive, others of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationship, while two more may be about to start one. An eighth is looking for something he may never find. ''Two Boys Kissing'' tells tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the story meagre rations of all these different boys, rice and kimchi at different stages of lovehome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fifteen BonesAlexia Casale|authortitle=R J MorganSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=IIt'm 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 middle of a dance performance that was going to break from my usual habits herechange her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just use the blurb on the desperate to get back as to a summary of this book. This isnlife that't out of laziness, honestlys as normal as she can possibly manage. Partly it Meanwhile there's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwisea new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and partly because just the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example day to day traumas of how all the challenges her body continues to draw a reader in without spoiling anything throw at allher to navigate. 'Things haven So even though she can't been the same for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin and finds hope. She is excitingdance anymore, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=An Episode of SparrowsFrontpage|author=Rumer Godden|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It is post war London and in a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up the earth. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful and kindly woman, worries about these children, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy Mason, abandoned by her mother to the care of restaurant owner Vincent and his wife, nurtures hopes and dreams of her own. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=Valentine Joe|author=Rebecca StevensDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his dead brothershift on the force, but while there she notices the grave of a 15-year-old boyand then suddenly rings Archie, Valentine Joe. Tormented by thoughts of such demanding he fetch something from a young lad dying so tragicallysecret place, she wakes up that night and looks out of join him on the window run. They get together, but barely begin to see smell the strange sight whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a 1910s towntin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a soldier marchingwhole heap of questions. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe himself – but why has this happened, and what will the future be for these two children?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Childish SpiritsLex Croucher|authortitle=Rob KeeleyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced Who knew that what I really needed to move read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in with her aunta most delightful way. In this story, uncle Gwen and cousins in an already crowded houseArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, it feels like the end of the world much to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the school play, so being torn away kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from him and taken out of school might break her heartprivate diaries. But And then when Gwen then she finds catches Art kissing a mixtape boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of local bands made for a girlfalling in love with each other, and when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as she listens to ittheir impending wedding draws ever closer, starts wondering about the boy who made it. Making new friendswill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, she decides or are they destined to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expectinglive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PoppyNick Brooks|authortitle=Mary HooperPromise Boys

|summary=Poppy When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a parlourmaid grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks out. Poppy is a very bright girl but had to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because her family is poortime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurseboys are innocent, a VAD.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Alex As WellA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Alyssa BrugmanKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=The story of AlexSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a transgendered Australian teenseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Brought up as a boy but identifying as a girl who also fancies girls, AlexBut I's journey is ll answer the first one you'll never forget: for his grandmother. An important, affecting story with layers of unreliable narration that will really make you think. Highly recommended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mutant CityPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Steve FeaseyDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a devastating chemical warstandard 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 four with both his best buddy from the world is slowly rebuilding itselffootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when As they 'reall fired up, straining at the leash only a single-emergedsex school can form, built six cities in which the genetically pure live talk in luxury class and comfortout often turns to sex. But outside the city walls Which is confusing for Ant, everything as he doesn't know what his score is very different, where his achievements in that regard lie. The survivors there are mutants He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, fighting for survival several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in degradingstone, impoverished circumstanceshe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Geography of You and MeStitched Up|author=Jennifer E SmithSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Lucy has lived Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the same building in New York for all of rural village where she lived with her sixteen years. Owen's just moved 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 missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the basement apartmentmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, son of Hanh and the building's new super. They've seen each other aroundgirls were not going to work in a shop, but they've never actually metwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. When a city-wide blackout hits New York, Lucy You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and Owen happen to be stuck in beading on the same elevator. As they get talking, they make an unlikely connection that will travel legs? The ones with them around America the artfully-placed rips and across continents. But how can you pursue first love distressed seams that felt so soft when the geography is always against youtouched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RiotPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Sarah MussiNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=It Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is 2018 extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Britain is still schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in recessionher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Years Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of austerity have devastated a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment creation of one such item is rising. The cost part of welfare the plot here, as Charlene is soaringa wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Prisons are overflowingWe 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 the population is still risingthen. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation well, what exactly happens is not for me to roll it out across the population is about say, only to go through parliamentremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TeaseAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Amanda MacielRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself 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 it was make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all Sara's faultacross the Empire. If Sara and He asks her other mean girl friends hadn't hounded and bullied Emma to come with him, to leave the ends life of the worlddreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Emma would still be alive. And so now itsoon Kurara won's Sara's turn to be ostracised - by her old friendst have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by the community in which she livesa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and even by she is forced to flee out into the mediaworld.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bubble-Wrap BoyMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Phil EarleWrath

|summary=Tiny Charlie Han is an outsider at school, whose only friend is SinusMeet Fitz, a fellow outcastyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. At homeLockdown is only just over, and he suffers from an overbearing mother and a quiet father who won't stand up should be free to her. But Charlie believes that ''everyone's good at something''do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he finds talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a special talent for skateboardingdesultory school band, it might be but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the start earth. Is this connected with one of something special her eco- if his mumwarrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's constant need to keep him safe doesndreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't get in his way...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Four thousand years after Orfeo defected as one of the six magical leaders of Atlantis, created the most evil 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 of terrible danger to come. And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasion, she confesses that she has had the same dream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellTori Bovalino|title=Red ShadowThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=It's Moscow Working all summer in 1940. Mishaher boarding school's life transformed library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when his father was offered she gets a request for over a job in hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comrade, Stalinbooks: Mr Birch. MishaThe boarding school's life is easier in many ways than those headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of his peers revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- he lives in a spacious and comfortable flatit notes on each of the books, and he has plenty scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of good food to eat. But Russia is at war - currently allied to HitlerThey's Germany but about re never meant to be betrayed by themreach him, of course. And Stalin Her plan is both paranoid and unstable - to get her anger out like this is the time of the purges , and nobody is safe from denunciationthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=Maybe One DayFrontpage|author=Melissa KantorPhilip Reeve|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe Utterly Dark 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 the Face of the people you love most in the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Keep The Faith|author=Candy HarperDeep

|summary=The North Wind In a word, rich. There is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles certainly an abundance of Australiariches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, and it brings with it ferocityBritish but way west, and an endless drynessbeyond the Scillies. Above, below, to either side of it, and in front of and behind There are troll people on it, is heat. This is a summer in the early 1960s and the land is suffering ''abovesea-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accident, three young lads out camping in the bush have started a firewitches, and it's getting worse and worse under legends of the conditions Dark family that are ideal has to keep watch for itmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Although in The current Darks are the leeward side of a large reservoirWatcher, Andrewe, the small community who has to keep notes of Ash Road would surely suffer if activity from the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it isHidden Lands, 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 for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World Warhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of JackAndrewe's warfoundling daughter, who washed up out of joining the Footballers' Battalionsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, playing in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Flanders Cupworld of protecting their island, fighting in the trenches and like it or 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'.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=The GiverFrontpage|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, Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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>}} {{newreviewTom de Freston|title=The Worst Girlfriend In The World|author=Sarra Manning|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. Franny B's best friend Alice is the worst girlfriend in the world. She loses interest and dumps them, one at a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Franny, she's great. Until she gets bored of schoolboys Julia and decides to set her sights on the lead singer of local band Thee Desperadoes, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for years. Can Alice get the guy, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough to cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Adaptation|author=Malinda LoShark

|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child and since then had Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been shunted around between various relatives, but packed off with her Uncle Russell decided that she must come parents and live with him and his two sons. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a little harsh to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondencesummer, doesn't it?) that in the far NE of the aunt with whom she was living suspected Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the plan was that Christina would eventually marry Marklantern, the elder son and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her twenty-first birthday would be used career in algae behind to prop up Flambards - hunt the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepairelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Year of the RatJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Clare FurnissThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pearl couldn’t imagine life without her motherScarlett McCain is an outlaw, but now she’s forced rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to face up wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to itkeep herself alive. After her mum passes away giving birth to But then she meets Albert Browne, a new baby, Pearl is left devastated – dark boy with dark powers and her new sistera darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who she calls they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the Rat, is a constant painful reminderLondon Lagoon. Can she come to terms with her grief? And has her mother really gone completelyTogether, 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 a wellthey must brave man-bred racehorse eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and had all the looks horrors of post-apocalyptic society to go with it but he was disappointing in his first season in England and his owner had better uses for reach the money his sale could bring. He was shipped out to India, which might sound rather extremeFree Isles, but was not uncommon will they be any more accepted there than they are in the nineteen thirties and there were some benefits. The main one was that he was going to a good owner who cared for his welfare and a trainer who realised that he would get most out rest 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 him.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love, Lies and Lemon PiesMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Katy CannonSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Ever since her dad's death, Lottie Gracie Welles has struggled at school, especially sociallyresigned herself to being lonely. Given the choice As a secret illegitimate daughter of joining an activity or her mum getting a home visit - something man with a "real" family, sheis used to not being a priority in people's desperate to avoid - she signs up for Bake Clublives. Initially, But when she's defends a reluctant memberrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, but as she gets to know school bad boy Mac and a few other people who might become her simple existence is changed for good friends, things look up. But with the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie to protect No longer can she spend her mother's secrettime writing novels in solitude, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around for her?life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessT L Huchu|authortitle=Laura PowellThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapseRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Britain is close using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to breaking pointtake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Citizens are going hungry Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemisaging grandmother. In this BritainHowever, there's an evil stalking the beliefs ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Auracity's thoughts aren't taken up by children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the suffering outside search for a missing boy at the sanctuary though - they're taken request of his dead mother. She will end up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over discovering an occult library and realise that the position world of head priestess when Opis retiresmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=The Forbidden LibraryFrontpage|author=Django Wexler|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Alice is a little girls whose feet are planted firmly in the here and now. SheKristen O's sensible. And studious. And practical. So when, one night, she overhears a conversation between her father and a vicious little fairy, she's more than a little shaken. But before she has had time to process this worrying event, Alice'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 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 automaton. There's only one rule: Alice must not enter the Library...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Hate|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Six months ago, Rosie, Eve's beloved older sister, died after an unprovoked hate crime. One of the witnesses, who didn't intervene, was Anthony. Now he's moved school Lycanthropy and ended up meeting Eve. Can she ever forgive him for his cowardice? Can he even forgive himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stories of World War One|author=Tony BradmanOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=World War OneHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, or Priya has to come to terms with the Great War as it was known at fact that she may be in constant pain for the timerest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', was an online support group where she talks to a cataclysmic warbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Millions died They talk about their troubles and life was changed forever for help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the survivors - chat for the women of Britaina while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and for the working classes and ruling classes alikedrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. 2014 But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the centenary of its outbreak basement – and for that werewolf to be the redoubtable Tony Bradman girl she has gathered together a dozen of our best writers been talking to online for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate the anniversarypast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>1683692349

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