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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemMax Boucherat|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I was caught up by this novel from We meet Lori on the first pages and read it with absorption evening she's 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 single sitting. The young heroineblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, Lana Dukovskayathe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a third generation ballerina with 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 Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences of server she and her mother bestie and grandmother are shrouded and lostnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Her grandmother's name, we discover When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, has been erased from the records and her mother is a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges safe place in the conventional notion of a ballerina: she game has close cropped hairbeen doctored – well, loves high speed motor bikes and most of all she wants where is a girl to experiment with the repertoire.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallRachel Greenlaw|title=This is ShynessCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in I can hear the town song of Shynessthe sea. The teenagers are drawn togethercall of the deep, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselvesanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Chris O'Dowd Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: plundering the Blunder Years|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Martin Moonewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, surrounded by his sisters is one of the seven who drive swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him crazyfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he decides is secretive and with only coordinates to get himself an imaginary friendguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He enlists With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the help watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of his friend who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isnsmuggler't any good s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like nothing to be your imaginary friend is save the customer services representative who comes to try future of her home and help you out?!the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MagorianHarry Allen|title=Impossible!Children of the Sun

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Josie Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is twelve, and would much rather be a boytalented singer. She attends a stage school Life is hard and we first meet her being criticised food is difficult to come by , so Seo and her Headmistress friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for having had her hair cut short, in tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the hope meagre rations of playing a boy’s part in a showrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAlexia Casale|title=The Last of the SpiritsSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Teenage Sam and Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his little sister Lizzie are starving shift on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for moneyforce, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old manthen suddenly rings Archie, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before demanding he can do so, fetch something from a strange spirit appears to himsecret place, and warns join him about on the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent actrun. Can Sam resist the temptation They get together, but barely begin to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him smell the possible consequences whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his actionfather was determined to keep away from his colleagues, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from and the bearer of a new viewpointwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zoe SuggLex Croucher|title=Girl OnlineGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=Who knew that what I've really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online betrothed since I first heard about it - I they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love books about blogging and with Bridget (the internetkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had creating the experience subterfuge of becoming well known online herselffalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people who've completely dismissed this But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a bad book while admitting way in which they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos and at the time of readingcan both truly be themselves, hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out or are they destined to live a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedNick Brooks|authortitle=Ali BermanPromise Boys

|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, multi-faith Boston to has a small town in America's Bible Beltgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all each could have been there at the time of his fears are realisedmurder. Open about his atheism But who killed him, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Benwhy, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour if any of Iraq with the militaryboys are innocent, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk will they be able to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo1919635017|title=Listen to the Moon|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's May, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians have already seen losses. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning A Thief to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one day, they hear a child's cries. On one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, could she be Catch a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on the label of her blanket, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainKitt Townsend

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=JerichoSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie so why is he running around London committing a clever, funny and spirited girlseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates But I'll answer the first one: for her disabilityhis grandmother. Living amongst the small-town folk of Jericho, she has a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethan.  All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K A S QuinnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Katie is back, and once more she's back in Victorian England. This time, however, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or Different for what purpose and, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! In the final episode of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's life, trying to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life 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 miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost one of four with both his girlfriend to someone who works at best buddy from the local carnival football team, and even heard that from someone elsetwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Life is just rubbish As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and needs ending totallyout often turns to sex. This Which is something confusing for Ant, as he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasndoesn't for a do-gooder passer-byknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact heHe's still alivehad a casual relationship, he hears that Slaine McAuleya secret one, a girl he knows vaguelyfor several months now, and so has killed herself. The only thing is effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that Aidan knows she hasn's set in stone, he can't – she told him herself after she'd diedbe sure. What did happen to her and why does she choose to tell him, And that's mostly because of all people? Aidan is on a mission: who he ''will'' find outs been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The PiperFrontpage|ratingisbn=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=The Murdstone TrilogyStitched Up|author=Mal PeetSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a hasTwelve-been. The onceyear-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknowold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what Life in the rural village where she can sell. There's nothing for itlived with her family was happy, she tells Philipif not prosperous, but a foray into fantasy. He's going so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to have the village to write offer Hahn a sword-job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands andHanh was on the mini-sorcery epicbus to Hanoi. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords Only, Hanh and all the rest of itother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Fantasy, You know those jeans you see, is selling by really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''s quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPatrice Lawrence|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss StirlingNeedle|rating=2.53

|summary=Misty Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is always getting into trouble thanks extremely hard for some people to the Savant ability which means like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she can't lie s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and causes people around has taken up residence in her to be brutally honest if sheson Blake's old room while he's not carefulat uni. Can she find happiness? Or will Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the serial killer stalking creation of one such item is part of the Savant community strike at Misty or one plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her friends?younger sister – a younger sister she's 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>019273735X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnmadeAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sorry-Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and his make merry band of evil sorcerersbetween their conquests. But Kami Glass has never been one However, when a man named Himura arrives to let danger of death and dismemberment stop tell her on that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her quest for truthto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And Kami has Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to know flee out into the truth about what happened world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to Jaredhunt down shikigami, Jared who rescued her brother and hasn't been seen since.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always Right|author=Anna Carey|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca'', for which Anna Carey won the Senior Children's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references to past events – presumably, adventures from the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story and not a stand-alone book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ghosts of HeavenFrontpage

|title=Wrath|rating=4.5

|summary=If anyone ever suggests Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to you that science do what he wants, to go where he wants and art (or philosophy) don't go togetherwith 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, give them but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this book! The Ghosts connected with one of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by her eco-warrior parents saying the natural constant end of the spiral. The introduction provides world is already a lyrical explanation done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the birth music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the universetruth? Well, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helixnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It also explains that we can read the stories in any of the twenty-four possible orders we please.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesTori Bovalino|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=How long Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do you keep your birthday presents — especially when she gets a request for? A week, a month, over a year – or life? Is hundred books that time-scale different, perhaps, when youshe has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who iss headmaster, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a characterman Tess hates. In 2013 we were given As a great book that gave us petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a story for every Doctor Who we've seen large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on TV, in honour each of the 50th birthday proceedings. But now is a year onbooks, and we're a further Doctor down scribbled with the lineugliest insults she can think of. And so what was They'11 Doctorsre never meant to reach him, 11 Stories' of course. Her plan is now '12 Doctorsto get her anger out like this, 12 Stories'and then take them all off before delivering them. So while many of us No harm done… Or it would have cherished and kept said birthday present, the only addition is the lastbe, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So itif someone hadn's worth revisiting what I said about the book last time, then chucking in the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the endt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Opal PlumsteadPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Living in Edwardian EnglandIn a word, Opal Plumstead rich. There is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams certainly an abundance of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison and Opal is forced to abandon her education for riches in this story set on a job in peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Fairy Glen sweet factoryScillies. The other workers there find Opal snobby There are troll people on it, and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Robertssea-witches, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about legends of the suffragette movement Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurstfurther west, where no ship dare sail. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin Talley|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The year is 1959current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, and a small group who has to keep notes of black students are attending Jefferson Highactivity from the Hidden Lands, a previously all-white school. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Jeffersonworry about such local yokel superstitions, and the group face a terrifying ordeal as theyAndrewe're surrounded by people s foundling daughter, who want to see them fail. Chief amongst them is Linda Hairston, daughter washed up out of the sea one of the town's most vocal segregationalistsday eleven years ago. But when Sarah Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Linda start working together on a school projecthis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, they start to realise they may have more in common than they think - and friendship might like it or not be all they're looking for from each other.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=John Twelve HawksJulia and the Shark

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jacob Underwood is dead. At leastJulia, he thinks he is. Suffering the after effects of a traumatic accident, Jacob believes he is dead, just a spark existing inside a bodyour pre-teen heroine, but unable to fully interact has been packed off with anything around him. Emotionally detached her parents and living their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a shadowysummer, silent world, Jacob is in the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned to him, Jacob must prepare himself - and his journey will change both his self, and how he sees far NE of the world around himScottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cure For Dreaming|author=Cat Winters|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia Mead is strong Here be Vikings, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefs, but there is a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealingthat kind of Scottish island. She isn’t a ruthless, remorseless warrior. She Dad is a human being who simply wants going to be treated like oneautomating the lantern, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beautywhich is his specialist thing, because this isn’t while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the point of her characterelusive Greenland shark. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held values And Julia, well, which she sticks by even at an age when it would will be so easy to go with the flowhomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BelzharJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Meg WolitzerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I was sent here because Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfieldthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and I loved him and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then he diedshe meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and almost a year passed and no-one knew what darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to do with me.'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think the mythical Free Isles of him and the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in schoolLondon Lagoon. friendsTogether, foodthey must brave man-eating wildlife, family, even therapy. And sothe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)Slingshot

|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as Gracie Welles has resigned herself to why it just wasn't possible, even when he'd promised his friends that he could have the car so they could go off somewherebeing lonely. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a bit worried about him using it - but "real" family, she did offer is used to go out with him so that he could get some practice not being a priority in. Ryan knew that the time for ''practicing'people' was pasts lives. I meanBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, he'd ''passed'' his test, hadn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Winter Horses|author=Philip Kerr|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s the winter of 1941 and we are in the Ukraineher simple existence is changed for good. A fourteen year old girl is hiding No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a wood on the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinkasolitude, for her life now has a name from folk song and fairy tale, and boy in it that she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horsesnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsT L Huchu|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=She's MADDYRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, you knowusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, not MADELEINE, but thatshe's been using it to support not only one of the problems which she has with her parents. They might be on holiday in one of the most beautiful places on earthherself, but her mother simply will not lighten upyounger sister and her aging grandmother. SheHowever, there's always complaining about what Maddy doesan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, what she wears or doesn't wear (theretargeting the city's not ''nearly'' enough children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of that bikini...) and Maddy has had enoughhis dead mother. She slams out of their bungalow will end up discovering an occult library and goes down to realise that the beach - but it's not long before the sea world of magic is all sucked away far bigger and tragedy hitsmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will Maddy have she find the chance missing children and bring an end to apologise for all the hurtful things which she saidthis evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Family|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenKristen O't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light|author=Derek LandyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Everything comes down Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to this. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely a prelude come to terms with the real battle, fact that she may be in constant pain for the fight against Darquesse, perhaps the most powerful sorcerer rest of all timeher life. Prophesied She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds the end a bunch of the world as everyone knows it, other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and the stakes have never been higherhelp each other out, the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant while also providing an escape to just joke and what remains mess around. When Brigid—one of his allies her closest friends—doesn't respond to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the face.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eren|author=Simon P Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=People - Mumchat for a while, mostly - are keeping secrets from OliPriya becomes concerned. Why have they had She decides to leave London steal her parents' car and come drive to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasnBrigid't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes s house to check up on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he her. But what she doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back expect to normal? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Young Sherlock: Stone Cold|author=Andrew Lane|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Every human being find there is a mystery, even to themselves, so there's a particular pleasure to be found werewolf in tracing the roots of someone's interests basement – 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 the series of books about the early years of the famous Sherlock Holmes, 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 werewolf to be the knack of finding people who are determined girl she has been talking to kill himonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>1683692349

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