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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceMax Boucherat|title=The Night RaidLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The Trojan War is over and We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the few survivors have house to find somewhere else herself – no neighbour to live. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at the end of the war and both with their own burden of guilt and horror work, just an avidly rule- are obsessed by the need to seek vengeance and protect the land breaking eleven year old, on which they have now settled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearsher lonesome. They were scamps, mischief makers - lads having a bit of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two older. What could possibly go wrong? The lads thought that Joe was great but there was Snuggled in a niggling feeling amongst blanket fort, she has one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme main intention, and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going is to log on to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchieVoxminer, you see) happened the same week world-building, critter-collecting game that Klaus Vogel arrived is a hit in the town of FellingLori's world. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Lads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jane of Lantern Hill|author=L M Montgomery|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian author, is best known for But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her classic storyown, ''Anne of Green Gables'', but in her lifetime and then she wrote a large number of books that are not so well knownfinds something even more spooky. This story is one of them, For the server she and her bestie and is, in fact, one nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of my favourite storiestampering. Jane Stuart is a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talking, down-to-earthWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and funny too. This book follows her journey from a life of miserysafe place in the game has been doctored – well, closeted in where is a home lacking in love, through girl to a joyous happy ending.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)Frontpage|author=Maya Van Wagenen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At the age of 13, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy at school and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas'', she secretly decides to try and change her life by putting the book into practice, a chapter a month. But surely her dad is right, and Betty's words have no place in the modern world? Read this and find out!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=The Serpent House|author=Bea Davenport|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1898 Compass and Annie is living a miserable existence with her aunt and cousins. Not long orphaned, she misses her mam every day. So Annie is overjoyed when her brother's employer Lady Hexer allows him 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 why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)|author=Helen DouglasBlade

|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>1782020896</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 apartment, son of the building's new super. They've seen each other around, but they've never actually metmini-bus to Hanoi. When a city-wide blackout hits New YorkOnly, Lucy Hanh and Owen happen the other girls were not going to be stuck work in the same elevator. As they get talkinga shop, they make were to work in virtual slavery in an unlikely connection that will travel with them around America and across continentsillegal garment factory. But how can You know those jeans you pursue first love when really wanted: the geography is always against you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Riot|author=Sarah Mussi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It is 2018 ones with intricate embroidery and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And beading on the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solutionlegs? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started ones with prisoners but the legislation to roll it out across the population is about to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Tease|author=Amanda Maciel|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself artfully-placed rips and it was all Saradistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's fault. If Sara quite possible that Hanh and her other mean girl friends hadn't hounded and bullied Emma to the ends of the world, Emma would still be alive. And so now it's Sara's turn to be ostracised co- by her old friends, by the community in which she lives, and even by the mediaworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bubble-Wrap BoyPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Phil EarleNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Tiny Charlie Han Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is an outsider at schoolextremely hard for some people to like, whose only friend is Sinuscharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a fellow outcast. At homepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, he suffers from an overbearing mother and a quiet father who won't stand has taken up to residence in her. But Charlie believes that son Blake''everyones old room while he's good at something'', and when he finds uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a special talent for skateboardingcomfort blanket, it you might be perhaps think, and the start creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something special - if his mumfull of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's constant need 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... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to keep him safe doesn't get in his wayremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyAnn Sei Lin|title=Waterfire Saga: Deep BlueRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Four thousand years after Orfeo defected Kurara has spent her entire life as one of a servant on the six magical leaders of AtlantisMidori, created a massive dining hall floating in the most evil sky where soldiers of monsters, the Empire come to drink and the island sank below the seamake merry between their conquests. However, Serafina when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is preparing for a ceremony that will confirm her as Crafter like him, someone with the heir power to form paper into whatever she desires – a Mer realmpower sought after all across the Empire. Sera will sing a songspell He asks her to her people and become betrothed come with him, to leave the prince life of another Mer realmdreary servitude that is all she has known. But Sera Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is plagued destroyed by a strange dreammonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, in which witches of Mer legend warn her of terrible danger and she is forced to comeflee out into the world. And when her friend Neela arrives for She joins Himura aboard the occasionOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, she confesses that she has had the same dream.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellMarcus Sedgwick|title=Red ShadowWrath

|summary=It's Moscow in 1940Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Misha's life transformed when Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his father was offered a job foot in the Kremlin by it when he talks to his old revolutionary comradebest friend, StalinCassie. Misha's life is easier in many ways than those They were half of his peers - he lives in a spacious and comfortable flatdesultory school band, and he has plenty of good food to eat. But Russia is at war - currently allied to Hitler's Germany but about to be betrayed by themCassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable Is this connected with one of her eco- this is warrior parents saying the time end of the purges and nobody world is safe from denunciationalready 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 truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Maybe One DayTori Bovalino|authortitle=Melissa KantorThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Zoe and Olivia are best friendsWorking 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. They do everything together - until Olivia What makes it worse is diagnosed with the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a terminal illnessman Tess hates. 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 books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she tries can think of. They're never meant to fight against deathreach him, Zoe wants of course. Her plan is to support get heranger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. But how can you adjust to a life where you might have to No harm done… Or it would be without one of the people you love most in the world?, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Keep The FaithPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Candy HarperUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=The North Wind In a word, rich. There is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of Australia, and it brings with it ferocity, and certainly an endless dryness. Above, below, to either side abundance of it, and riches in front of and behind it, is heat. This is this story set on a summer in the early 1960s and the land is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunatelypeculiar island called Wildsea, through pure accidentBritish but way west, three young lads out camping in beyond the bush have started a fire, and it's getting worse and worse under the conditions that Scillies. There are ideal for troll people on it. Although in the leeward side of a large reservoir, the small community of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it issea-witches, 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 legends 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 Dark family that has to do the honourable thing keep watch for magical islands and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's wartheir monster approaching from even further west, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for braverywhere no ship dare sail. 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 current Darks 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 EldersWatcher, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudesAndrewe, and whether they are assigned who has to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver keep notes of activity from the elderlyHidden Lands, a labourer his brother Will 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 lives in London with too much science in his head 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 withworry about such local yokel superstitions, 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 Manning|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItAndrewe's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys foundling daughter, who washed up out of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. Franny B's best friend Alice is the worst girlfriend in the world. She loses interest and dumps them, sea one at a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriendsday eleven years ago. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Frannywhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, she's great. Until she gets bored of schoolboys both his sullen brother and decides to set her sights on his curious ward are thrust into the lead singer world of local band Thee Desperadoesprotecting their island, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for yearslike it or not. Can Alice get the guy, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough to cope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AdaptationKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Malinda LoJulia and the Shark

|summary=First things first: this is a brilliant book Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and you could read it on its own but it's an extra-brilliant book if you've read their cat from the [[Flambards by K M Peyton|first book]] family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the Flambards seriesfar NE of the Scottish islands. It's inevitable Here be Vikings, that there are kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be spoilers automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in this review so if you want algae behind to get hunt the best out of this series, click away right nowelusive Greenland shark. I really won't And Julia, well, she will be offendedhomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FlambardsJonathan Stroud|authortitle=K M PeytonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and since then had been shunted around Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between various relativesthe Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but her Uncle Russell decided that robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she must come and live meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with him dark powers and his two sonsa darker past. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondence, doesn't it?) that the mythical Free Isles of the aunt with whom she was living suspected that the plan was that Christina would eventually marry MarkLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the elder son cannibalistic Tainted and all the money (quite a lot horrors of it actually) which she would inherit on her twentypost-first birthday would apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be used to prop up Flambards - any more accepted there than they are in the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepair.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Year of the RatMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Clare FurnissSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Pearl couldn’t imagine life without her mother, but now she’s forced Gracie Welles has resigned herself to face up to itbeing lonely. After her mum passes away giving birth to As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a new baby, Pearl is left devastated – and her new sister"real" family, who she calls the Rat, is used to not being a constant painful reminderpriority in people's lives. Can But when she come to terms defends a random boy in her class with her grief? And has slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her mother really gone completelytime writing novels in solitude, or does for her life now has a boy in it that she keep seeing her?never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120279</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Dark HorseLibrary of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Rumer GoddenKristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Dark Invader was a well-bred racehorse and had the looks Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to go terms with it but he was disappointing in his first season the fact that she may be in England and his owner had better uses constant pain for the money his sale could bringrest of her life. He was shipped 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 India, which might sound rather extreme, but was not uncommon in the nineteen thirties just joke and there were some benefitsmess around. The main one was that he was going When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to a good owner who cared the chat for his welfare and a trainer who realised that he would get most out of his horses if they were contentedwhile, Priya becomes concerned. His new owner, Mr Leventine, even arranged for his lad She decides to travel out steal her parents' car and drive to India with him and this was probably Dark InvaderBrigid's greatest piece of luckhouse to check up on her. Ted Mullins not only loved But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the horse - he understood himpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Love, Lies and Lemon Pies|author=Katy Cannon|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since her dad's death, Lottie has struggled at school, especially socially. Given the choice of joining an activity or her mum getting a home visit - something she's desperate to avoid - she signs up for Bake Club. Initially, she's a reluctant member, but as she gets to know school bad boy Mac and a few other people who might become good friends, things look up. But with the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie to protect her mother's secret, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Goddess|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and 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 - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Forbidden Library|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. She'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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]