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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill Atkins|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=She's MADDY, you know, not MADELEINE, but that's only one of the problems which she has with her parents. They might be on holiday in one of the most beautiful places on earth, but her mother simply will not lighten up. She's always complaining about what Maddy does, what she wears or doesn't wear (there's not ''nearly'' enough of that bikini...) and Maddy has had enough. She slams out of their bungalow and goes down to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away and tragedy hits. Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Family|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying Last Life of the Light|author=Derek Landy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Everything comes down to this. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely a prelude to the real battle, the fight against Darquesse, perhaps the most powerful sorcerer of all time. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds the end of the world as everyone knows it, and the stakes have never been higher, the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the face.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eren|author=Simon P ClarkLori Mills
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|summary=People We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- Mumbreaking eleven year old, mostly - are keeping secrets from Olion her lonesome. Why have they had What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to leave London and come log on to live Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does EmLori's dad dislike Oli when he 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 know him? more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When will Dad come? When will life go back malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to normalturn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Sherlock: Stone ColdRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Andrew LaneCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=Every human being is a mystery, even to themselves, so there's a particular pleasure to be found in tracing the roots of someone's interests and life's work. Just how did our hero develop his ability, for example, to tell a person's character, profession and history within minutes of meeting him or her? In this, the seventh volume in I can hear the series song of books about the early years sea. The call of the famous Sherlock Holmesdeep, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine to lead him down a path to his eventual role as a consulting detective. Well, if he survives till adulthood, that is. Of all his talents the most pronounced one does seem to be the knack of finding people who are determined to kill himanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessHarry Allen|authortitle=Michelle PaverChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends at school. People don't like travellers. So Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she's glad to find is a new friend in Ben over the summer holidaystalented singer. Even Kelly's dog, Tyson, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local Life is hard and food is difficult to their village of Wilmcotecome by, they find some interesting treasuresso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, including an old boot. So when school starts again looking for tree bark and Mr Walker sets a local history project, Kelly decides edible grasses to find out more about supplement the old quarries, the coming meagre rations of the railway rice and the use of Wilmcote limestone in the construction of the Houses of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time ago..kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Counting By 7sAlexia Casale|authortitle=Holly Goldberg SloanSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=Willow is not like other girls. She is not just smartIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but certifiably gifted. She gets that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on better with adults than she does stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her peerslife. She loves patterns and plants But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the colour red pity stares, and the number 7desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. She is charming Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and adorable and quirky. She is one just the day to day traumas of all the most real characters Ichallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can've met in a book this year. And t dance anymore, might she is hurting.be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The 100 SocietySimon Fox|authortitle=Carla SpradberyDeadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace and her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have a secret. They have resurrected the 100 Society and intend to complete the grafitti tagging of a hundred locations around the city. A scandal involving a previous incarnation of the society means that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with fire. But to her, the 100 Society isn't a game; it's an obsession. And she's determined to complete the mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boundless|author=Kenneth Oppel|rating=5
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|summary=William Everett's father has risen high in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the railway. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a manual labourersecret place, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracksjoin him on the run. When Will and his father witness They get together, but barely begin to smell the laying whiff of Southern trains when the last piece of track, there's an avalanche. And Will's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne is deadarrested, Will's leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father is general manager was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the world's biggest train - the Boundless, at 987 carriages long - will carry his body in perpetuitybearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreview|title=The Impossible Knife of MemoryFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonLex Croucher|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Hayley is back in her childhood home after years on the road with her father, trying to outrun the past. She doesn't really remember living here, nor does she really want to. Not when her father can't drive under bridges for fear of snipers. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol Gwen and drugs. Art Are Not when he refuses help from the VA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Witch of Salt and Storm|author=Kendall Kulper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Avery wants just one thing: to take her place as the witch of Prince Island. The witch who controls the winds and helps the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Avery's mother, who has rejected magic, came and stole her away. Avery's prison in her mother's house is a luxurious one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die for. But Avery doesn't care. All she wants is to get back to her grandmother and to continue her witch's apprenticeship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cate Sampson|title=Splintered LightLove|rating=54
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|summary=When she Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was just a childgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Leah's face was horribly scarred it lifted my spirits in an attack a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in which her mother and another woman died. And it's all brought horribly back when love with Bridget (the man convicted is released years later after new evidence has emerged. Charliekingdom's father is only female knight) - something that manArt discovers from her private diaries. And Charlie wants more than anything to reunite then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with his exonerated father and help him get revenge on the people who falsely accused himeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Then there's Linden But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, newly released from will they find a young offenders instituteway in which they can both truly be themselves, whose brother Victor has an inexplicable obsession with this years-old crime. All three teenagers or are defined by they destined to live a single calamity. But what really happenedlie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115836</amazonuk>1526651793
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|rating=4
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|summary=Freddy has When the ultimate disadvantage principal (headmaster) of having rich parentsUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. WellEach, actuallyseemingly, I guess it's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they wanthas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have to do to take much if any notice been there at the time 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 DVDsmurder. Who's to say whether it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove But who killed him to do what he did, but whichever it wasand why, and if any of the boys are innocent, Freddy does something from which there is no return.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreview|title=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) |author=Michelle PaverFrontpage|ratingisbn=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's been seven long months since Hylas and Pirra were separated in the wake of the devastating eruption of Thalakrea. The eruption was followed by tsunami and the coldest winter anyone can remember. There is no spring. No sun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1919635017|title=ReplicaA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jack HeathKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=There Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a tendency for adults series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fiction, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good storythe second question because I avoid spoilers. But I''Replica'' is a strange and compelling combination of action, mystery, thriller and science-fictionll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Heath has even included a hint of a romance. There is something for everyone and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problems, the text is easy-to-read, immersive and unpretentious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Apple and RainFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''A story about sad endings.''<br>''A story about happy beginnings.''<br>''A story to make you realise who is special.''<br> This is the blurb on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' Patrick Ness and it sums up the book just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica Shirvington|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sabine lives two lives. Literally. Each night, at midnight, she shifts from one self to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be a teenager to her families and friends but in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painful, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very different. In Wellesley, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers and a boyfriend other girls are jealous of. In Roxbury, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation Different for rebelliousness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Runner|author=Tim BowlerBoys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Strange men are watching VinnyAnt 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 other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's house but he doesn't know whyre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. His mum Which is being disloyal to his dad but confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know why. Something what his score is up with , where his dad achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and his job so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but Vinny doesnwhether that's set in stone, he can't know whatbe sure. But Vinny does know And that he's had enough mostly because of school, where who he's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And now, been having the men who are watching relationship and the house are after Zinny too. Mum ends up in the hospitalsex with. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Doing ItStitched Up|author=Melvin BurgessSteve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=First published Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in 2003the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, ''Doing It'' is if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the story of village to offer Hahn a group of teenagers discovering sex for the first timejob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the timemini-bus to Hanoi. With high teen pregnancy rates Only, is there such Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a thing as too much accuracyshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? Or are honest portrayals The ones with the best form of educationartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Reissued a decade later, we can have It's quite possible that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel followsHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RunawayPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Marie-Louise JensenNeedle|rating=4.53
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|summary=After her father is brutally murderedBrave. Charlene, Charlotte escapes the city 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to try to find a new lifelike, characters and to avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her downreaders both. Disguising herself as Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a boypleasant yoga tutor, she puts Annie, and has taken up residence in her skill with horses to good use by finding employment son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a grand country estate, drawing the notice tempestuous personality may be in need of a kind man far above her station in life. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness where she can find itcomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the shadow creation of the past looms over her. Will she ever be truly free one such item is part of the terror plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her fatheryounger sister – a younger sister she's death?allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=NogginAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=John Corey WhaleyRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Listen. I was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple Kurara has spent her entire life as that. Now I'm alive again. The a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in-the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between part is still their conquests. However, when a little fuzzy, but I can man named Himura arrives to tell you her thatshe is a Crafter like him, at some point or another, my head got chopped off and shoved someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a freezer in Denver, Coloradopower sought after all across the Empire.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you not He asks her to want to read on. Travis Coates was terminally ill. In a last ditch Hail Marycome with him, he consented to cryogenic preservationleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And nowWell, hesoon Kurara won's backt have any say in the matter, his head grafted onto because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a donor bodyshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Of all She joins Himura aboard the original volunteersOrihime, Travis a sky-ship whose express purpose is one of only two patients successfully brought back to life. It's hunt down shikigami, and a cause for celebration, right? whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShimmerMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Paula WestonWrath
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|genre=Teens
|summary=Gaby Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is still struggling only just over, and he should be free to come do what he wants, to terms go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the many major revelations that have been thrown at enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her in eco-warrior parents saying the past few days - not least that end of the brother world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's believed dead for a year is actually alive. Ohdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and theynot when Cassie has gone missing he can're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human woment.|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 to rescue her dog but is soon fighting for her life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910153028</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sex and ViolenceTori Bovalino|authortitle=Carrie MesrobianThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a player who, when he moves to request for over a new town, hundred books that she has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex withdeliver herself. Then he ends up in What makes it worse is the wrong place, with man who requested the wrong girl, at the wrong timebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and suffers a brutal assaultman Tess hates. Retreating to As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a quiet community in Minnesota with his fatherlarge request, he meets many new people, including a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover from Tess sticks post-it notes on each of 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-oldsbooks, Zeyneb is struggling scribbled with her feelings as the ugliest insults she grows up, and with juggling her friends and familycan think of. However, she has an extra dilemma - sheThey's a Muslim girl who's attracted re never meant to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve reach him, ofcourse. Additionally, she needs Her plan is to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Clans|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in get her anger out like this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go onand then take them all off before delivering them. 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 bullyNo harm done… Or it would be, his closest male friends are idiots, and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesnif someone hadn't seem to see him in the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything delivered them for himher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganePhilip Reeve|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The city In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has been rebuilt to keep watch for warmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The waves of cyborg attacks current Darks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the flood of refugees surging Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in daily is as London with too much of a problem as a resource. Actually science in one or two cases the word his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe'problem' is a bit s foundling daughter, who washed up out of an understatementthe sea one day eleven years ago. In But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the middle world of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing protecting their best to fight and surviveisland, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgsit or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Don't Even Think About ItKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Sarah MlynowskiJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathy. There are good points Julia, our pre- they know what other people think of them, they can cheat on teststeen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and they have their cat from the upper hand family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in conversations with othersthe far NE of the Scottish islands. But there are some drawbacks as well - not only do they no longer have any secrets from each other Here be Vikings, but also, knowing what other people think that kind of them can Scottish island. Dad is going to be a two-edged sword! High school automating the lantern, which is hard enough his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to survive when you're normal - hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will being an Espie make it even more difficult?be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Since You've Been GoneJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Morgan MatsonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Sloane Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Emily are best friendsFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Until Sloane disappears. She But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her parents have vanisheda darker past. There’s been no phone callWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, textthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, or ethey must brave man-mail. Theneating wildlife, two weeks laterthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Emily gets a list but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to do. If she does them all, can she find her way back to Sloanerest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreview|title=Dragon ShieldFrontpage|author=Charlie Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.'' Something dark and sinister is going on at the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and 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 Jo. 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>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiSlingshot|rating=4.53
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|summary=Kestrel Gracie Welles has two alternative futures ahead of herresigned herself to being lonely. As the a secret illegitimate daughter of a general of man with a vast, expansionist empire"real" family, she can make is used to not being a politically advantageous marriage or priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can enlist she spend her time writing novels in the military. Kestrel doesn't want either and solitude, for her life is spent now has a boy in a delicate game of manoeuvres with her father as it that she tries to put off the decisionnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy In The TowerT L Huchu|authortitle=Polly Ho-YenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=WonderfulRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, wonderful story about using Zimbabwean magic (and a lonely boybit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, his agoraphobic mother but her younger sister and building-eating plantsher aging grandmother. That could never workHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, right? Wrong! Ittargeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a must read missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and you wonrealise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could't ever have read anything quite like ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it before.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Secrets of the Tombs: The Phoenix CodeKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Helen MossLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hattie Moore is determined that this year she’ll find true love - could it be Having recently been diagnosed with Goosechronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the boy next door who fact that shemay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s starting , an online support group where she talks to think a bunch of as more than other teens living with chronic illnesses. They 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 geekwhile, or will he only ever see Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her as a friend? If she finds another boy, will he get jealous? And now sheparents' car and drive to Brigid's found house to check up on her real dad, will . But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she get has been talking to know him properly?online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1683692349
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