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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyFrontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s family, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran to come back to them but Zoran has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and the two immediately hit it off, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in it. Will Flora ever talk to her again, and when Zach goes missing, can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Geek Girl: Picture Perfect|author=Holly Smale|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners is moving to New York. Her head is full of facts about the Big Apple, but will this be enough to allow her to cope with life across the Atlantic. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rilla The Last Life of Ingleside|author=L M MontgomeryLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rilla of Ingleside is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being We meet Lori on the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after first evening she's got the warhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, about the warbabysitter poorly, mother at work, it is just an incredibly important workavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It tells of what happened to the women who stayed at homeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, the limited aspects of war work and that they were able is to log on to doVoxminer, the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far awayworld-building, and all of the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such critter-collecting game that is a heightened timehit in Lori's world. The novel begins as Europe is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on the brink of warher own, and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girlthen she finds something even more spooky. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' For the book that precedes this one, server she's just a spoilt baby and at the start her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of this story it seems that nothing much has changedtampering. HoweverWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, just as and her safe place in the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of timegame has been doctored – well, Rilla herself grows from where is a child girl to a woman.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LobstersRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Tom Ellen Compass and Lucy IvisonBlade|rating=3.5

|summary=It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of teen fiction and ''I think it does an awful lot can hear the song of things really well. Amongst other things, it can transport the reader to faraway times and placessea. It can also let them empathise with people in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair to say, looking at The call of the recent Carnegie longlist as just one exampledeep, that books which do either of the above things tend to be the most critically-acclaimed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)|author=Robin Stevens|rating=4answering beat in my heart.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=How do you solve a murder with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place?''

Such is Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the task facing rocks and plundering the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most secret societywrecks. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the gymruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But by when the time she returned with President Daisy WellsCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Miss Bellthey capture the island's body had disappeared. Itleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the first decent case sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Society has had - who really cared about Laviniawatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gusto. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but withterritory, it Mira must be said, a great deal more attention determined to stop at nothing to detail. Of course, school life continues unhindered save the future of her home and Daisy and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep and lacrosse practice, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuitsthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Apple Tart of HopeHarry Allen|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldChildren of the Sun

|summary=Meg's parents think six months away Ra Eun Seo lives in New Zealand a North Korean town and she is a great ideatalented singer. Meg isn't convinced. A big part of the reason she doesn't want to go Life is Oscar. Oscar Dunleavey hard and food is Meg's best friend, the boy next door who makes perfect apple tarts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Smart|author=Kim Slater|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kieran sees the world in a different way from most 14-year-old boys. He’s an artist, inspired difficult to come by Lowry, so Seo and a boy with a strong sense of right her friends Nari and wrong. So when a homeless man called Colin is killedMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and the police don’t seem interested, Kieran decides edible grasses to investigate himself. Can he solve supplement the mystery? Perhaps even more importantly, can he survive his meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotAlexia Casale|authortitle=Catherine BrutonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Aspiring filmIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road with her mum, a politicianchanging disability too, but without her dad, whothat's left them. Tokes what Ven is another teen living without dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a father - new dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the neighbourhoodpity stares, he and his mother are trying not desperate to get back to be found by his dada life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The pair meet and become friends Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, but fury is brewing in their townher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and a young boy called Little Pea is about just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to unwittingly set things in motion that will lead throw at her to terrible eventsnavigate. Will Maggie and Tokes survive as the streets turn So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to violencesing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Seven Second DelaySimon Fox|authortitle=Tom EastonDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the futureforce, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)Uthen suddenly rings Archie, linked by demanding he fetch something from a bridgesecret place, and immigrants risk everything to pass from join him on the third world of the latter run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the first world whiff of Southern trains when the former. Mila has made it acrossfather is arrested, but leaving Archie on the danger is not overlate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and as she falls into the hands bearer of the Agents, she realises the real price a whole heap of freedomquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Code Red LipstickLex Croucher|authortitle=Sarah SkyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jessica Cole is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a schoolgirl model with an ex-spy for gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a fathermost delightful way. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpful In this story, she's forced to use her talents for both modelling and spying to try Gwen and mount her own rescue mission. But the bad guys here Arthur have some really evil plansbeen betrothed since they were tiny, and if Jessica's not able much to stop themtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, she could find that sheyou see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's not only lost female knight) - something that Art discovers from her fatherprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but she's missed creating the chance to save many more peoplesubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If she will they find a way in which they can only work out who she can trust...both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!Nick Brooks|authortitle=Rae EarlPromise Boys

|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with an evil brotherWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’seemingly, and has a father who she knows nothing about. As wellgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, 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 each could have been there?) Hattie’s diary tells at the story time of a year that could just change her lifehis murder. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much for throwing up in his fish tank But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, that is…will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Fools' GoldA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Philippa GregoryKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Sent to Venice, the worldSolomon Klyne isn's biggest marketplacet a bad lad, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to make money for the church by trading and even gambling. Itcrack safes? You's the only way ll have to wait to expose a possible coin counterfeiting scheme, but it also opens them up get an answer to participating in Venicethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But I's famous Carnival, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter is distressed by ll answer the thought of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings first one: for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his father, who he'd given up for deadgrandmother.. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrencePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Night RaidDifferent for Boys

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=The Trojan War Ant is over in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and the few survivors have is surprised to find somewhere else 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 football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to liveprimary school days together. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children As they're all fired up, straining at the end of leash only a single-sex school can form, the war talk in class and both with their own burden of guilt out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and horror - are obsessed 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 need to seek vengeance relationship and protect the land on which they have now settledsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic1800901232|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45

|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearsTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. They were scampsLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, mischief makers so when the smartly- lads having dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a bit of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who job in Hanoi it was a year or two olderan opportunity not to be missed. The lads thought that Joe Some money changed hands and Hanh was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of on the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and that some of his pranks the other girls were actually - deliberately - not going to hurt peoplework in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, You know those jeans you see) happened really wanted: the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the town of Felling. legs? The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for ones with the Bad Ladsartfully-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>1781122695</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane of Lantern HillPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=L M MontgomeryNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Lucy Maud MontgomeryBrave. Charlene, the Canadian author, 'heroine' of this piece is best known extremely hard for her classic storysome people to like, ''Anne characters and readers both. Kicked out of Green Gables'multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but and has taken up residence in her lifetime she wrote son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a large number tempestuous personality may be in need of books that are not so well known. This story a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is one part of themthe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is, in fact, one making something full of my favourite storieslove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Jane Stuart is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talkingstore detective, down-and then force people to-earthgive her two days off school, and funny toowhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... This book follows her journey from a life of miserywell, closeted in a home lacking in lovewhat exactly happens is not for me to say, through only to a joyous happy endingremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)Ann Sei Lin|authortitle=Maya Van WagenenRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=At Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the age of 13Midori, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornelldrink and make merry between their conquests. Unhappy at school and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas''However, she secretly decides when a man named Himura arrives to try and change tell her life by putting that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the book power to form paper into practice, whatever she desires – a chapter a monthpower sought after all across the Empire. But surely He asks her dad to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is rightall she has known. Well, and Bettysoon Kurara won's words t have no place any say in the modern matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world? Read this . She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and find out!a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Serpent HouseMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Bea DavenportWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1898 Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and Annie is living a miserable existence with her aunt and cousinswhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Not long orphanedThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she misses could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her mam every day. So Annie eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is overjoyed when her brotheralready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's employer Lady Hexer allows him to bring his sister to live with him on a cottage on dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the estate at Hexer Halltruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Lady Hexer takes an interest in both brother and sister. But why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Helen DouglasThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Chasing Stars'' s library is the follow-up last thing Tess Matheson wants to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to save deliver herself. What makes it worse is the world from disaster by preventing man who requested the discovery of a far-off planetbooks: Mr Birch. In so doing, he falls in love with Eden. In this second story, Ryan travels back once again - this time to save EdenThe boarding school's life. And now Eden must make a sacrificeheadmaster, too. The boy she loves has given up everything to save her and now she must give up everything to save hima man Tess hates...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sentinel|author=Joshua Winning|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical As a petty act of fantasy revenge for making her find and mild horror as the summary might suggest. Unlike deliver such a lot large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of stories where we join the main character in books, scribbled with the aftermath ugliest insults she can think of a major event. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this one begins , and then take them all off before Nicholas is orphaneddelivering them. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journey, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologueNo harm done… Or it would be, makes it pretty clear to us that they wonif someone hadn't be returning, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=Two Boys KissingFrontpage|author=David Levithan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two boys - no longer a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This 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 to, and beyond, 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 the story of all these different boys, at different stages of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilip Reeve|title=Fifteen Bones|author=R J Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm going to break from my usual habits here, Utterly Dark and just use the blurb on the back as a summary Face of this book. This isn't out of laziness, honestly. Partly it's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwise, and partly because the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example of how to draw a reader in without spoiling anything at all. 'Things haven't been the same for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin and finds hope. She is exciting, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Episode of Sparrows|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>}} {{newreview|title=Valentine Joe|author=Rebecca StevensDeep

|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brotherIn a word, but while there she notices the grave rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a 15-year-old boypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, Valentine Joebeyond the Scillies. Tormented by thoughts of such a young lad dying so tragicallyThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, she wakes up that night and looks out legends of the window Dark family that has to see keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the strange sight Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of a 1910s townactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a soldier marchingAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself – but why has this happened, both his sullen brother and what will his curious ward are thrust into the future be for these two children?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Childish SpiritsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark

|summary=Ellie and Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her mum parents and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum is going their cat from the family home in SW England to transform the old house into be lighthousekeepers for a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reasonsummer, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting him, he wouldn't even know how they were getting 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 far NE of beyondthe Scottish islands. And so neither Here be Vikings, that kind of them notice the strange things that Ellie doesScottish island...|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 Dad is going to move in with her auntbe automating the lantern, uncle and cousins in an already crowded housewhich is his specialist thing, it feels like the end of the world to while mum will be leaving her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush career in algae behind to hunt the school play, so being torn away from him and taken out of school might break her heartelusive Greenland shark. But then she finds a mixtape of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it And Julia, starts wondering about the boy who made it. Making new friendswell, she decides to try will be homesick and track the boy down alone – but will he be who she’s expecting?until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PoppyJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Mary HooperThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy Scarlett McCain is a parlourmaid at an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks outSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Poppy is But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a very bright girl but had darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to enter service rather than continuing on flee to college after school because her family is poorthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - cannibalistic Tainted and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent exall the horrors of post-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurseapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, a VAD.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alex As WellMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Alyssa BrugmanSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=The story Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Alexa man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a transgendered Australian teenpriority in people's lives. Brought up as But when she defends a random boy but identifying as a girl who also fancies girlsin her class with her slingshot, Alex's journey her simple existence is one you'll never forgetchanged for good. An importantNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, affecting story with layers of unreliable narration for her life now has a boy in it that will really make you think. Highly recommendedshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020896</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mutant CityT L Huchu|authortitle=Steve FeaseyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Ropa Moyo is a devastating chemical warghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the world is slowly rebuilding itselfdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers andEver since she dropped out of school, when they re-emergedshe's been using it to support not only herself, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury but her younger sister and comforther aging grandmother. But outside However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city walls's children. Soon, everything Ropa is very differentpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degradingShe 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, impoverished circumstances.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Geography of You and MeKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Jennifer E SmithLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lucy Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has lived in to come to terms with the same building fact that she may be in New York constant pain for all the rest of her sixteen yearslife. OwenShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's just moved in ', an online support group where she talks to the basement apartment, son a bunch of the building's new superother teens living with chronic illnesses. They've seen talk about their troubles and 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 chat for a while, but theyPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents've never actually metcar and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. When But what she doesn't expect to find there is a city-wide blackout hits New York, Lucy werewolf in the basement – and Owen happen for that werewolf to be stuck in the same elevator. As they get girl she has been talking, they make an unlikely connection that will travel with them around America and across continentsto online for the past few months. But how can you pursue first love when the geography is always against you?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Riot|author=Sarah Mussi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It is 2018 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 the population is still rising. Something has Move on 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 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 and it was all Sara's fault. If Sara 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 - by her old friends, by the community in which she lives, and even by the media.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Bubble-Wrap Boy|author=Phil Earle|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Tiny Charlie Han is an outsider at school, whose only friend is Sinus, a fellow outcast. At home, he suffers from an overbearing mother and a quiet father who won't stand up to her. But Charlie believes that ''everyone's good at something'', and when he finds a special talent for skateboarding, it might be the start of something special - if his mum's constant need to keep him safe doesn't get in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Dowswell|title=Red Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Moscow in 1940. Misha's life transformed when his father was offered a job in the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comrade, Stalin. Misha's life is easier in many ways than those of his peers - he lives in a spacious and comfortable flat, 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 them. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable - this is the time of the purges and nobody is safe from denunciation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Maybe One Day|author=Melissa Kantor|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe and Olivia are best friends. They do everything together - until Olivia is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As she tries to fight against death, Zoe wants to support her. But how can you adjust to a life where you might have to be without one of the people you love most in the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Keep The Faith|author=Candy Harper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Faith is back, and trying to pick between the awesomely wonderful Ethan and the gorgeous but not all-that-interesting Finn (my bias, not hers!) Other stuff is happening but there's little point going into details about it because let's face it, with characters like Candy Harper's they could be doing ANYTHING and it would still be amazingly good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078259</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Roomies|author=Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Roomies tells the story of two girls, EB and Lauren, who are about to move into college together to share a room. It's not a college tale, though - it takes place before they get there, as they get in touch and start to open up to a stranger about their 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]