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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Ruin and Rising|author=Leigh Bardugo|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Starkov, the Sun Summoner, has fallen. In her confrontation with the Darkling, she called on forbidden powers. Not only did she nearly die, but she didn't succeed in stopping him. Now he sits on Ravka's throne, ruling the country through fear, while she wastes away underground, weakened, and far from the light that would strengthen her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASIW7A</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Townsend|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Freddy has the ultimate disadvantage of having rich parents. Well, actually, I guess it's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they want, have to do to take much if any notice of Freddy and what he's doing. He's left on his own - often overnight - to do exactly as he wants to do. And what Freddy wants to do is to watch horror DVDs. Who's to say whether it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove him to do what he did, but whichever it was, Freddy does something from which there is no return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Eye Last Life of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) |author=Michelle PaverLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's been seven long months since Hylas got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Pirra were separated that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-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 spooky. For the wake server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the devastating eruption of Thalakreatampering. The eruption was followed by tsunami When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the coldest winter anyone can remember. There game has been doctored – well, where is no spring. No sun.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>0008666482
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|summary=Strange men are watching Vinny's house but he doesn't know why. His mum is being disloyal to his dad but he doesn't know why. Something is up with his dad and his job but Vinny doesn't know whatI can hear the song of the sea. But Vinny does know that he's had enough The call of school, where he's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And nowthe deep, the men who are watching the house are after Zinny too. Mum ends up answering beat in the hospital. Dad disappearsmy heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doing ItHarry Allen|authortitle=Melvin BurgessChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=First published Ra Eun Seo lives in 2003, ''Doing It'' is the story of a group of teenagers discovering sex for the first time. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy rates, North Korean town and she is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel followstalented singer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Runaway|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After her father Life is brutally murdered, Charlotte escapes the city to try to find a new life, hard and to avoid the vicious killer who food is surely tracking her down. Disguising herself as a boy, she puts her skill with horses difficult to good use come by finding employment at a grand country estate, drawing the notice of a kind man far above so Seo and her station in life. But while Charlie tries friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to grasp happiness where she can find it, supplement the shadow meagre rations of the past looms over herrice and kimchi at home. Will she ever be truly free of the terror of her father's death?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=NogginAlexia Casale|authortitle=John Corey WhaleySing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=It''Listen. I was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple as s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that. Now Iyou'm alive again. The inre having to navigate a life-between part is still a little fuzzychanging disability too, but I can tell you that, at some point or another, my head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you not to want to read what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on. Travis Coates stage in the middle of a dance performance that was terminally ill. In a last ditch Hail Mary, he consented going to cryogenic preservationchange her life. And now, he's But she comes backfighting, his head grafted onto a donor body. Of all desperate to avoid the original volunteerspity stares, Travis is one of only two patients successfully brought and desperate to get back to a lifethat's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's a cause for celebrationnew (cute!) boy in school, right? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shimmer|author=Paula Weston|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Gaby is still struggling her music A Level performance piece to try to come sort out, and just the day to terms with day traumas of all the many major revelations that have been thrown challenges her body continues to throw at her in the past few days - not least that the brother to navigate. So even though shecan's believed dead for a year is actually alive. Oht dance anymore, and they're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Minty|author=Christina Banach|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old twins Minty and Jess are barely ever parted, until a fateful trip to the coast ends in tragedy. Minty tries might she be able to rescue sing her dog but is soon fighting for her life.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910153028</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sex and ViolenceSimon Fox|authortitle=Carrie MesrobianDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan Late one night Graham Blake is a player wholate back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, when demanding he moves to fetch something from a new townsecret place, and join him on the run. They get together, has always found it easy to find a girl but barely begin to have sex with. Then he ends up in smell the wrong place, with whiff of Southern trains when the wrong girlfather is arrested, at leaving Archie on the wrong timelate express to Brighton, and suffers toting a brutal assault. Retreating to a quiet community in Minnesota with tin his father, he meets many new people, including a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover was determined to keep away from the trauma he's suffered?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Head Over Heart|author=Colette Victor|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling with her feelings as she grows uphis colleagues, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma - she's the bearer of a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve whole heap ofquestions. Additionally, she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B ClansLex Croucher|authortitle=Darren ShanGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=WARNING! If you haven't Who knew that what I really needed to read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this seriesstory, STOP READING NOWGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go on. Run along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winger|author=Andrew Smith|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school. His roommate is a bully Gwen, his closest male friends are idiotsyou see, and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesnBridget (the kingdom't seem to see him in the same way. But this could be a year s only female knight) - something that changes everything for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for warArt discovers from her private diaries. The waves And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of cyborg attacks falling in love with each other, when really they are just the beginning – what follows is more devastatingenabling their own other romantic attachments. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is But as much of their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a problem as a resource. Actually way in one which they can both truly be themselves, or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have destined to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Don't Even Think About ItNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah MlynowskiPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. There are good points - they know what other people think Each, seemingly, has a grudge of them, they can cheat on testssome description against Principal Moore, and they each could have been there at the upper hand in conversations with otherstime of his murder. But there are some drawbacks as well - not only do they no longer have any secrets from each otherwho killed him, but alsoand why, knowing what other people think and if any of them can the boys are innocent, will they be a two-edged sword! High school is hard enough able to survive when you're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficultclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Since You've Been GoneA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Morgan MatsonKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She and her parents have vanished. There’s been no phone callSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, text, or e-mail. Then, two weeks later, Emily gets so why is he running around London committing a list in the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to do. If she does them all, can she find her way back series of robberies? And how did he learn to Sloanecrack safes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dragon Shield|author=Charlie Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Joll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.'I' Something dark and sinister is going on at ll answer the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and first one: for his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, that is. The dragons are moving. They're spitting real fire, too. And they're attacking Will and Jograndmother. A glorious golden girl comes to their rescue, followed by an angel and a muse. And Will and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind the stopping of time? And will they ever get Mum back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Marie RutkoskiDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Kestrel Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two alternative futures ahead of herother old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the daughter of leash only a general of a vastsingle-sex school can form, expansionist empire, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist the talk in the militaryclass and out often turns to sex. Kestrel Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't want either and her life know what his score is spent , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a delicate game 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 manoeuvres who he's been having the relationship and the sex with her father as she tries to put off the decision.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Boy In The TowerStitched Up|author=Polly Ho-YenSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Wonderful, wonderful story about a lonely boy, his agoraphobic mother and buildingTwelve-year-eating plants. That could never work, right? Wrong! It's old Hanh wanted to be a must read and you won't ever have read anything quite like it beforefashion designer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Secrets of Life in the Tombs: The Phoenix Code|author=Helen Moss|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beautyrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, where history surrounds you so when the smartly-dressed man and death is always present. There are treasures woman came to uncover, riddles the village to solve and offer Hahn a colourful job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and exotic world Hanh was on the mini-bus to exploreHanoi. A perfect setting for this Only, Hanh and the first other girls were not going to work in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapesshop, archaeology and adventurethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Much of You know those jeans you really wanted: the architecture ones with intricate embroidery and scenery in this book really exists and can be visited, including some of beading on the legs? The ones with the tombs artfully-placed rips and museums, distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and many readers will feel inspired to seek further information about this most exciting and dramatic of locationsher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek!Patrice Lawrence|authortitle=Rae EarlNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hattie Moore Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is determined that this year she’ll find true love - could it be extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with Goosea pleasant yoga tutor, the boy next door who sheAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's starting to at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think , and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as more than just Charlene is a geekwonder knitter, or will he only ever see and is making something full of love for her as younger sister – a friend? If she finds another boy, will he get jealous? And now younger sister she's found allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her real dadtwo days off school, will when she get shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to know him properly?remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HouseRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=This collection of short stories written by some Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the leading writers for young adults today Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the First World War not often covered in teen fictionEmpire. Each story explores how the war changed He asks her to come with him, to leave the lives of young women life of dreary servitude that time forever is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as they learned a shikigami, and she is forced to cope with loss flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and grief.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Searching for SkyMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Jillian CantorWrath
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|genre=Teens
|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedMeet Fitz, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Islanda young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. River Lockdown is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life is simplejust over, calm and fulfilling. Untilhe should be free to do what he wants, one day, a boat comes to go where he wants and everything changes. Taken back to civilisationwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to the world her mother left behindhis best friend, Sky is separated from RiverCassie. Sky hates everything about California - its housesThey were half of a desultory school band, its rules, its people who don't tell her but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the truth. And so enigmatic – saying she sets out to find Rivercould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. But when Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she does, 's dreaming of? Is she discovers just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth and why it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Department 19: Zero Hour|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risenWell, betrayal not when Cassie has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they gone missing he can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep't.. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, and the secrecy which the department has always relied on is becoming a thing of the past.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High and DryTori Bovalino|authortitle=Sarah SkiltonThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charlie Dixon Working all summer in her boarding school's library is having the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a bad week. Still struggling to get request for over being dumped by his girlfriend, he’s turned a hundred books that she has to alcoholdeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and now finds himself the lead suspect in the near-fatal drug overdose of a schoolmateman Tess hates. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him to As a petty act of revenge for making her find her and deliver such a missing flash drivelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, he takes scribbled with the chance ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to investigate – but quickly finds that the truth reach him, of course. Her plan is hard to come by get her anger out like this, and a lot of people seem to have been doing some dark dealingsthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. Can he solve the case and win the girl back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Natasha FarrantUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After In a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familyword, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside downrich. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran to come back to them There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but Zoran way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zachto keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and The current Darks are the two immediately hit it offWatcher, Andrewe, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads who has to her putting her foot keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in it. Will Flora ever talk London with too much science in his head to her againworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Zach goes missingAndrewe Dark drowns himself, can the sisters both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rest world of protecting their family help find him?island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Geek Girl: Picture PerfectKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Holly SmaleJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Harriet Manners is moving to New York. Her head is full of facts about the Big AppleJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but will this be enough to allow has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to cope with life across the Atlantic. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rilla of Ingleside|author=L M Montgomery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rilla of Ingleside is an interesting novel be lighthousekeepers for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after summer, in the war, about far NE of the war, it is an incredibly important workScottish islands. It tells of what happened to the women who stayed at homeHere be Vikings, 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 kind of the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened timeScottish island. The novel begins as Europe Dad is on going to be automating the brink of warlantern, and Rilla which is only 15 years old andhis specialist thing, still, a rather silly young girl. I have while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, she's just a spoilt baby and at hunt the start of this story it seems that nothing much has changedelusive Greenland shark. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of timeAnd Julia, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lobsters|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really well. Amongst other things, it can transport the reader to faraway times and places. It can also let them empathise with people in situations that they’ll probably – she will be homesick and in many cases hopefully alone – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair to say, looking at the recent Carnegie longlist as just until she suddenly finds company one example, that books which do either of the above things tend to be the most critically-acclaimednight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)Jonathan Stroud|authortitle=Robin StevensThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=How do you solve a murder with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place? Such Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the task facing Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most secret society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in wildlands between the gymSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But by the time then she returned meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with President Daisy Wellsdark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Miss Bell's body had disappeared. It's they plan to flee to the first decent case mythical Free Isles of the Society has had - who really cared about Lavinia's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gustoLondon Lagoon. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but withTogether, it they must be saidbrave man-eating wildlife, a great deal more attention the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to detail. Of coursereach the Free Isles, 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 biscuits.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Apple Tart of HopeMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldSlingshot|rating=53
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|summary=Meg's parents think six months away in New Zealand 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 great idea. Meg isnpriority in people't convinceds lives. A big part of the reason But when she doesn't want to go defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is Oscarchanged for good. Oscar Dunleavey is Meg's best friendNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the for her life now has a boy next door who makes perfect apple tartsin it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SmartT L Huchu|authortitle=Kim SlaterThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kieran sees the world in Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a different way bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from most 14-year-old boysthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. He’s 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 artistevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, inspired by Lowrytargeting the city's children. Soon, and Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy with a strong sense at the request of right his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and wrong. So when a homeless man called Colin realise that the world of magic is killed, far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the police don’t seem interested, Kieran decides missing children and bring an end to investigate himself. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlythis evil, can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying himor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Catherine BrutonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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