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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=I Predict a RiotFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonMax Boucherat|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road with her mum, a politician, but without her dad, who's left them. Tokes is another teen living without a father - new to the neighbourhood, he and his mother are trying not to be found by his dad. The pair meet and become friends, but fury is brewing in their town, and a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things in motion that will lead to terrible events. Will Maggie and Tokes survive as the streets turn to violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Code Red Lipstick|author=Sarah Sky|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jessica Cole is a schoolgirl model with an ex-spy for a father. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpful, she's forced to use her talents for both modelling and spying to try and mount her own rescue mission. But the bad guys here have some really evil plans, and if Jessica's not able to stop them, she could find that she's not only lost her father, but she's missed the chance to save many more people. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If she can only work out who she can trust...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=OMG! Is This Actually My Last Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with an evil brother, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, and a father who she knows nothing about. As well, she wants to be a total hotness goddess and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers but there’s no boy interested in her (or is there?) Hattie’s diary tells the story of a year that could just change her life. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much for throwing up in his fish tank, that is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fools' Gold|author=Philippa Gregory|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sent to Venice, the world's biggest marketplace, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - to make money for the church by trading and even gambling. It's the only way to expose a possible coin counterfeiting scheme, but it also opens them up to participating in Venice's famous Carnival, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter is distressed by the thought of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his father, who he'd given up for dead. But with dark forces at work, the five friends will need all of their willpower and ingenuity to survive in Venice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077406</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=The Night RaidLori 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 livepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Rye What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Nisus that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- barely collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than children at spooky. For the end of the war server she and her bestie and both with their own burden nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of guilt tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and horror - are obsessed by her safe place in the need game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settled.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{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 years. 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. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town of Felling. 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 her classic story, ''Anne of Green Gables'', but in her lifetime she wrote a large number of books that are not so well known. This story is one of them, and is, in fact, one of my favourite stories. Jane Stuart is a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talking, down-to-earth, and funny too. This book follows her journey from a life of misery, closeted in a home lacking in love, through to a joyous happy ending.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>}} {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=An Episode of SparrowsSimon Fox|authortitle=Rumer GoddenDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=It Late one night Graham Blake 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 late back from his shift on the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is to blame. Her sister Oliviaforce, a more thoughtful and kindly womanthen suddenly rings Archie, worries about these childrendemanding he fetch something from a secret place, ‘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 join him on the care of restaurant owner Vincent and his wife, nurtures hopes and dreams of her ownrun. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Valentine Joe|author=Rebecca Stevens|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brother They get together, but while there she notices the grave of a 15-year-old boy, Valentine Joe. Tormented by thoughts of such a young lad dying so tragically, she wakes up that night and looks out of the window barely begin to see smell the strange sight whiff of a 1910s town, and a soldier marching. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe himself – but why has this happened, and what will Southern trains when the future be for these two children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ellie and her mum and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum father is going to transform the old house into a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reason, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting himarrested, he wouldn't even know how they were getting leaving Archie on. There's a great deal of work to be done to get Inchwood Manor ready and mum is busy with manager Marcus. Charlie is busy being fed up at being stuck in the back end of beyond. And so neither of them notice the strange things that Ellie does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Playlist For A Broken Heart|author=Cathy Hopkins|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced late express to move in with her auntBrighton, uncle and cousins in an already crowded house, it feels like the end of the world toting a tin his father was determined to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in the school play, so being torn keep away from him his colleagues, and taken out the bearer of school might break her heart. But then she finds a mixtape whole heap of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it, starts wondering about the boy who made itquestions. Making new friends, she decides to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expecting?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PoppyLex Croucher|authortitle=Mary HooperGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Poppy is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a parlourmaid at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks outmost delightful way. Poppy is a very bright girl but had In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because her family their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is poor. But in love with Bridget (the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppykingdom's old teacher sees an opportunity for only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her intelligent ex-pupilprivate diaries. She suggests that Poppy become And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a volunteer nurseboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, a VAD.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alex As Well|author=Alyssa Brugman|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The story creating the subterfuge of Alexfalling in love with each other, a transgendered Australian teenwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Brought up But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a boy but identifying as way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a girl who also fancies girls, Alex's journey is one you'll never forget. An important, affecting story with layers of unreliable narration that will really make you think. Highly recommended.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020896</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mutant CityNick Brooks|authortitle=Steve FeaseyPromise Boys

|summary=After a devastating chemical warWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the world is slowly rebuilding itselfpolice station as suspects. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and Each, seemingly, when they re-emergedhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, built six cities in which and each could have been there at the genetically pure live in luxury and comforttime of his murder. But outside who killed him, and why, and if any of the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there boys are mutantsinnocent, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Geography of You and MeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jennifer E SmithKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy has lived in the same building in New York for all of her sixteen years. OwenSolomon Klyne isn's just moved in to the basement apartmentt a bad lad, son so why is he running around London committing a series of the buildingrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's new super. They've seen each other around, but they've never actually met. When a city-wide blackout hits New York, Lucy and Owen happen ll have to wait to be stuck in the same elevator. As they get talking, they make an unlikely connection that will travel with them around America and across continentsanswer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But how can you pursue I'll answer the first love when the geography is always against you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RiotPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Sarah MussiDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=It Ant is 2018 in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is rising. The cost one of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And four with both his best buddy from the population is still rising. Something has football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to giveprimary school days together. The solution? Forced sterilisation of As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school-leavers without a secured place can form, the talk in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation to roll it class and out across the population is about often turns to go through parliamentsex. Unsurprisingly Which is confusing for Ant, there as he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a growing popular protest against itcasual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=TeaseStitched Up|author=Amanda MacielSteve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself and it was all Sara's faultTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. If Sara and Life in the rural village where she lived with her other mean girl friends hadn't hounded family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and bullied Emma woman came to the ends of the world, Emma would still be alive. And so now village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it's Sara's turn was an opportunity not to be ostracised missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- by her old friendsbus to Hanoi. Only, by Hanh and the community other girls were not going to work in which she livesa shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and even by beading on the legs? The ones with the mediaartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>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

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Faith In a word, rich. There is backcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and trying legends of the Dark family that has to pick between keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the awesomely wonderful Ethan and Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the gorgeous but not all-that-interesting Finn (my biasHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, not hers!) Other stuff is happening but thereand Andrewe's little point going foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into details about it because let's face itthe world of protecting their island, with characters like Candy Harper's they could be doing ANYTHING and it would still be amazingly goodor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078259</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=RoomiesFrontpage|author=Sara Zarr Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tara AltebrandoTom de Freston|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|summary=Roomies tells Julia and the story of two girls, EB and Lauren, who are about to move into college together to share a room. It's not a college tale, though - it takes place before they get there, as they get in touch and start to open up to a stranger about their lives, hopes and fears, while always remembering this is someone they're going to be meeting in real life and spending a lot of time with very soon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444780158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ash Road|author=Ivan SouthallShark|rating=4.5

|summary=The North Wind is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of AustraliaJulia, our pre-teen heroine, and it brings has been packed off with it ferocity, her parents and an endless dryness. Above, below, their cat from the family home in SW England to either side of itbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, and in front the far NE of and behind itthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, is heatthat kind of Scottish island. This Dad is a summer in going to be automating the early 1960s and the land lantern, which is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accidenthis specialist thing, three young lads out camping while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the bush have started a fire, and it's getting worse and worse under the conditions that are ideal for itelusive Greenland shark. Although in the leeward side of a large reservoirAnd Julia, well, the small community of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them she will be homesick and alone – and it is, it is…until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerJonathan Stroud|title=Over The LineOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closerScarlett McCain is an outlaw, but this was just before rejecting the beginning draconian conformity of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to do wander the honourable thing wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and join the war shooting other outlaws to fight in Francekeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. ''Over the Line'' is With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the story mythical Free Isles of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' BattalionLondon Lagoon. Together, playing in the Flanders Cupthey must brave man-eating wildlife, fighting in the trenches cannibalistic Tainted and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After all the war he scored England's first international goal and was one horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the first of Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the modern generation rest of 'professional footballers'.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The GiverMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Lois LowrySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness Gracie Welles has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society resigned herself to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely acceptedbeing lonely. 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 As a nurturer secret illegitimate daughter of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, man with a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares and provides food"real" family, they are usually she is used to not being a good match for the personpriority in people's lives. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given But when she defends a typical rolerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, however. He her simple existence is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationschanged for good. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no No longer burdened withcan she spend her time writing novels in solitude, but which may be needed from time to time to aid for her life now has a boy in decision making and law enforcementit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Worst Girlfriend In The WorldT L Huchu|authortitle=Sarra ManningThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItRopa 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 acknowledged fact amongst evil stalking the boys ruined streets of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. Franny BEdinburgh, targeting the city's best friend Alice children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the worst girlfriend in search for a missing boy at the worldrequest of his dead mother. She loses interest will end up discovering an occult library and dumps them, one at a time, leaving a trail realise that the world of heartbroken boys magic is far bigger and furious girlfriends. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Franny, more dangerous than sheever could's greatve imagined. Until Will she gets bored of schoolboys find the missing children and decides bring an end 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 guythis evil, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough to copeclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AdaptationKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Malinda LoLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Flocks 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 suicidal birds are throwing themselves at planes right across North Americaher life. There are dozens She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of crashesother teens living with chronic illnesses. Thousands of people die They talk about their troubles and millions more are stranded or under curfew as the government moves help each other out, while also providing an escape to instil calm. Reese just joke and David are driving, not flying, home along an empty highway in the desert when another crazed bird flies into their carmess around. They crash. And donWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't wake up respond to the chat for a monthwhile, Priya becomes concerned. Rescued by a medical military unit, Reese is told that She decides to steal her life was saved by experimental treatments parents' car and proceduresdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Both But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and David are made for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to sign non-disclosure agreementsonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=The Edge of the Cloud|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First things first: this is a brilliant book and you could read it Move on its own but it's an extra-brilliant book if you've read the to [[Flambards by K M Peyton|first bookNewest Thrillers Reviews]] in the Flambards series. It's inevitable that there are going to be spoilers in this review so if you want to get the best out of this series, click away right now. I really won't be offended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Flambards|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child and since then had been shunted around between various relatives, but her Uncle Russell decided that she must come and live with him and his two sons. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondence, doesn't it?) that the the aunt with whom she was living suspected that the plan was that Christina would eventually marry Mark, the elder son and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on her twenty-first birthday would be used to prop up Flambards - the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>}}