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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy In The TowerMax Boucherat|authortitle=Polly Ho-YenThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=WonderfulWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, wonderful story about a lonely boybabysitter poorly, his agoraphobic mother and buildingat work, just an avidly rule-eating plantsbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. That What could never workpossibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, right? Wrong! Itcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a must read and you wontiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't ever have read anything quite like it beforefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>0008666482
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|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they ''I can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, and hear the secrecy which song of the department has always relied on is becoming a thing sea. The call of the pastdeep, the answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyHarry Allen|authortitle=Natasha FarrantChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s family, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside downtalented singer. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran Life is hard and food is difficult to come back to them but Zoran has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora by, so Seo 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, friends Nari and when Zach goes missingMin go foraging every evening, can the sisters looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the rest meagre rations of their family help find him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Geek Girl: Picture Perfect|author=Holly Smale|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners is moving to New Yorkrice and kimchi at home. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreview|title=Rilla of InglesideFrontpage|author=L M MontgomeryAlexia Casale|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Rilla of Ingleside is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the war, about the war, it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened to the women who stayed at home, the limited aspects of war work that they were able to do, the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened time. The novel begins as Europe is on the brink of war, and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girl. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, sheSing if you Can's just a spoilt baby and at the start of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lobsters|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivisont Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It’s no secret It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that I’m you're having to navigate a massive fan life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really wella dance performance that was going to change her life. Amongst other things But she comes back fighting, it can transport desperate to avoid the reader pity stares, and desperate to faraway times and placesget back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It can also let them empathise with people Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair school, her music A Level performance piece to try to saysort out, looking at and just the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either day to day traumas of all the above things tend challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be the most critically-acclaimed.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)Simon Fox|authortitle=Robin StevensDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=How do you solve a murder with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place? Such Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the task facing the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in place, and join him on the gymrun. But by the time she returned with President Daisy Wells They get together, Miss Bell's body had disappeared. It's but barely begin to smell the first decent case whiff of Southern trains when the Society has had - who really cared about Lavinia's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gusto. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but withfather is arrested, it must be saidleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a great deal more attention tin his father was determined to detail. Of coursekeep away from his colleagues, school life continues unhindered and Daisy and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep and lacrosse practice, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuitsthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreview|title=The Apple Tart of HopeFrontpage|author=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldLex Croucher|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=Meg's parents think six months away Gwen and Art Are Not in New Zealand is a great idea. Meg isn't convinced. A big part of the reason she doesn't want to go is Oscar. Oscar Dunleavey is Meg's best friend, the boy next door who makes perfect apple tarts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Smart|author=Kim SlaterLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kieran sees the world Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a different most delightful way from most 14-year-old boys. He’s an artist, inspired by Lowry, and a boy with a strong sense of right and wrong. So when a homeless man called Colin is killed In this story, Gwen and the police don’t seem interestedArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Kieran decides much to investigate himself. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, can he survive his home life is in love with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=I Predict a Riot|author=Catherine Bruton|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Aspiring filmBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road with something that Art discovers from her mum, private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a politicianboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but without her dad, who's left them. Tokes is another teen living without a father - new to creating the neighbourhoodsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, he and his mother when really they are trying not to be found by his dadenabling their own other romantic attachments. The pair meet and become friends, but fury is brewing in But as their townimpending wedding draws ever closer, and will they find a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things way 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 futurewhich they can both truly be themselves, the difference between West and East or are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by they destined to live 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.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Code Red LipstickNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah SkyPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jessica Cole 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 schoolgirl model with an ex-spy for a father. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpfulgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, she's forced to use her talents for both modelling and spying to try and mount her own rescue missioneach could have been there at the time of his murder. But the bad guys here have some really evil planswho killed him, and why, and if Jessica's not any of the boys are innocent, will they be 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...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Rae EarlKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hattie Moore has got Solomon Klyne isn't a nightmare family with an evil brotherbad lad, so why is he running around London committing a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, and a father who she knows nothing about. As well, she wants series of robberies? And how did he learn to be a total hotness goddess and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers but there’s no boy interested in her (or is therecrack safes?) Hattie’s diary tells You'll have to wait to get an answer to the story of a year that could just change her lifesecond question because I avoid spoilers. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much But I'll answer the first one: for throwing up in his fish tank, that is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>grandmother...
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{{newreview|title=Fools' GoldFrontpage|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 Patrick Ness 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 LawrenceTea Bendix|title=The Night RaidDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic1800901232|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane of Lantern HillPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=L M MontgomeryNeedle|rating=53
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|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Serpent HouseMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Bea DavenportWrath|rating=4.5
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|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
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{{newreview|title=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Frontpage|author=Helen DouglasTori Bovalino|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is the follow-up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save the world from disaster by preventing the discovery of a far-off planet. In so doing, he falls in love with Eden. 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 WinningDevil Makes Three|rating=34.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical of fantasy and mild horror as the summary might suggest. Unlike a lot of stories where we join the main character in the aftermath of a major event, this one begins before Nicholas is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journey, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear to us that they won't be returning, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Two Boys Kissing|author=David Levithan|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Two boys - no longer a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high Working all summer in her boarding school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This 's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a kiss which they intend hundred books that she has to last over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kissdeliver herself. Their friend will document What makes it, spreading worse is the man who requested the world tobooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and beyonda man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, their community, some Tess sticks post-it notes on each of whom will be supportivethe books, others scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationshipThey're never meant to reach him, while two more may be about to start oneof course. An eighth Her plan is looking for something he may never findto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn''Two Boys Kissing'' tells the story of all these different boys, at different stages of lovet delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreview|title=Fifteen BonesFrontpage|author=R J MorganPhilip Reeve|ratingtitle=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 GoddenDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It In a word, rich. There is post war London and certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the earthScillies. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Garden Committee is convinced Dark family that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is has to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful keep watch for magical islands and kindly womantheir monster approaching from even further west, worries about these childrenwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy MasonAndrewe, abandoned by her mother who has to keep notes of activity from the care of restaurant owner Vincent and Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his wifehead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, nurtures hopes and dreams Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of her ownthe sea one day eleven years ago. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of them could have anticipatedprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreview|title=Valentine JoeFrontpage|author=Rebecca StevensKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brother, 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 to see the strange sight of a 1910s town, and a soldier marching. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe himself – but why has this happened, Julia and what will the future be for these two children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob KeeleyShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|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'tin the far NE of the Scottish islands. And if Ellie wasn't texting him Here be Vikings, he wouldn't even know how they were getting onthat kind of Scottish island. There's a great deal of work Dad is going to be done to get Inchwood Manor ready and automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum is busy with manager Marcus. Charlie is busy being fed up at being stuck will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the back end of beyondelusive Greenland shark. And so neither of them notice the strange things that Ellie does..Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Playlist For A Broken HeartJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Cathy HopkinsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced to move in with her aunt, uncle and cousins in Scarlett McCain is an already crowded houseoutlaw, it feels like rejecting the end draconian conformity of the world Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in wander the wildlands between the school playSeven Kingdoms of Britain, so being torn away from him robbing banks and taken out of school might break her heartshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she finds meets Albert Browne, a mixtape of local bands made for dark boy with dark powers and a girldarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and as she listens they plan to flee to it, starts wondering about the boy who made itmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Making new friendsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, she decides the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to try and track reach the boy down – Free Isles, but will he they be who she’s expectingany more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PoppyMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Mary HooperSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Poppy Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a parlourmaid at the de Vere familypriority in people's country house lives. But when World War I breaks out. Poppy is she defends a very bright girl but had to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because random boy in her class with her slingshot, her family simple existence is poorchanged for good. But the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests life now has a boy in it that Poppy become a volunteer nurse, a VADshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alex As WellT L Huchu|authortitle=Alyssa BrugmanThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The story of AlexRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a transgendered Australian teenbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Brought up as a boy Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but identifying as a girl who also fancies girlsher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, Alexthere's journey is one youan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city'll never forgets children. An importantSoon, affecting story with layers Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of unreliable narration 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 really make you think. Highly recommended.it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020896</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreview|title=Mutant CityFrontpage|author=Steve Feasey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After a devastating chemical war, the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfort. But outside the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKristen O'Neal|title=The Geography of You Lycanthropy and Me|author=Jennifer E SmithOther Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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
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