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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveMax Boucherat|title=SienaThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley HighWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, along with just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her clique the Starletslonesome. Nothing can stand What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in her way – not even a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the return of exworld-Starlet and her former best friend Romybuilding, who spent critter-collecting game that is a term hit in France after Lori's world. But first Lori has a shocking incident one tiny inkling that this stormy night led to the headmistress deciding the girl needed to spend some time away from their school. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]], you know roughly what happens here, but you dondoesn't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read itfind herself entirely on her own, I'd definitely suggest going for that one firstand then she finds something even more spooky. (There may For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be spoilers hereable to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, although I've tried and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to avoid anything too specific.)turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreview|title=Frozen Charlotte|author=Alex Bell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app that Jay has downloaded to his phone, things go awfully wrong. Sophie asks to speak to Rebecca, a cousin of hers who died in mysterious circumstances. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very night, Jay drowns in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardRachel Greenlaw|title=Red Queen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mare is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots Compass and deadly games lurking round every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jekyll's Mirror|author=William HusseyBlade|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother to death, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) tree3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Eve|title=Stella|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations'', and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story which has surprising depth and has been one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards the start of the year. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the library, and at the time I was extremely impressed by the voices of lead characters Stella and Caitlin, but had issues with it. On rereading, to prepare myself for upcoming prequel ''Siena'', I think it's one of the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time around, although those issues haven't vanished completely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Williamson|title=The Art of Being Normal|rating=5
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|summary=Fourteen-year-old David has always known that he is a transgender girl. (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued to do so in my review.) However David has chosen a new girl's name and collects feminine clothes to express that inner self. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie and Felix. When Leo Denton, who also has a secret, moves to David's school Eden Park from I can hear the rougher Cloverdale, song of the worlds sea. The call of the two collidedeep, the answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Margaret Wild|title=The Vanishing Moment|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed to me Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on various groundsluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. It Mira, like her mother before her, is teen fiction (one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors andany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves they capture the island's leader and dystopia)Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves)as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what-ifs). I was intrigued might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to see if the author could live up heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to my expectationssave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellHarry Allen|title=The Last Leaves FallingChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close to Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make the maximum possible impact if you go into it, as I did, knowing barely anything about ittalented singer. If you trust my recommendations enough Life is hard and food is difficult to buy on one sentencecome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, stop reading now looking for tree bark and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanAlexia Casale|title=Dash and LilySing if you Can's Book of Darest Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Just before ChristmasIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the shelf middle of a dance performance that was going to change her favourite bookshoplife. But she comes back fighting, in an effort desperate to find avoid the kind of love pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that has made 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her brother so happy. Dash finds it music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and follows just the instructions, setting off a chain day to day traumas of passing all the book back and forth trading their hopes and dreamschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Could the two So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be just as right for each other in person as they are in writingable to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)Simon Fox|title=My True Love Gave to MeDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a real lack of festive YA around – at the timesecret place, I think and join him on the choice seemed to be pretty much limited to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohnrun. Both fantastic books They get together, but a thin spread compared barely begin to smell the amount out there for adults and for younger children. (If I’m missing obvious ones, by whiff of Southern trains when the wayfather is arrested, please let me know!) Thankfully, a dozen authors, with Stephanie Perkins as leaving Archie on the editorlate express to Brighton, have got together to produce toting a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around the holidays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Kiem|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret Keeper|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I tin his father was caught up by this novel determined to keep away from the first pages and read it with absorption in a single sitting. The young heroinehis colleagues, Lana Dukovskaya, is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmother's name, we discover, has been erased from the records and her mother is a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion bearer of a ballerina: she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most whole heap of all she wants to experiment with the repertoire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leanne Hall|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselvesquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyLex Croucher|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder YearsGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Martin Moone, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazy, he decides to get himself an imaginary friend. He enlists the help of his friend who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isn't any good at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Magorian
|title=Impossible!
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Josie is twelve, and would much rather be a boy. She attends a stage school and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a show.
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|title=The Last of the Spirits
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, 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 man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.
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{{newreview
|author=Zoe Sugg
|title=Girl Online
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|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
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedNick Brooks|authortitle=Ali BermanPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston to a small town in America's Bible Belt, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheismis murdered, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid three boys find themselves called into the relationship: police station as a non-believer Ben, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influencesuspects. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with the military Each, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk to himseemingly, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo|title=Listen to the Moon|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's Maygrudge of some description against Principal Moore, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians each could have already seen losses. Like been there at the rest time of Britainhis murder. But who killed him, they are beginning to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one daywhy, they hear a child's cries. On one and if any of the archipelago's uninhabited islandsboys are innocent, will 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 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 eyesable to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betsy Tobin1919635017|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Jericho, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie is a clever, funny and spirited girl. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for her disability. 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>}} {{newreview|author=K A S Quinn|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 Solomon Klyne isn't quite sure who called her back in time or for what purpose anda bad lad, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! In the final episode so why is he running around London committing a series of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying robberies? And how did he learn to save Prince Albertcrack safes? You's life, trying ll have to wait to get an answer to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|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
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 {{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
|rating=5
|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Bond: Shoot to KillPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Steve ColeNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Shoot of this piece is extremely hard for some people to Killlike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake' s old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be the sixth Young Bond in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the series, but it creation of one such item is part of the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond booksplot here, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s deathas Charlene is a wonder knitter, so there and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no reason more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on boardgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... In factwell, Cole what exactly happens is able not for me to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting say, only to flagremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Misty FallsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Joss StirlingRebel Skies|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty Kurara has spent her entire life as 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 their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is always getting a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into trouble thanks whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the Savant ability which means life of dreary servitude that is all she canhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't lie have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and causes people around her she is forced to be brutally honest if she's not carefulflee out into the world. Can she find happiness? Or will She joins Himura aboard the serial killer stalking the Savant community strike at Misty or one Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of her friends?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnmadeMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sorry-in-the-Vale has been taken Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over by Rob Lynburn , and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his merry foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band of evil sorcerers, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. But Kami Glass has never been Is this connected with one to let danger of death and dismemberment stop her on her quest for truth. eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And Kami has to know can Fitz find out the truth about what happened to Jared? Well, Jared who rescued her brother and hasnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't been seen since...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rebecca Is Always RightTori Bovalino|authortitle=Anna CareyThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After Working all, what better book summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to keep on the coffee table and brandish at my husband do — especially when I'm making she gets a request for over a point? hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What I did not realise when I volunteered is that makes it worse is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The Real Rebecca'boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for which Anna Carey won the Senior Children's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages making her find and disadvantages. On deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the plus sidebooks, you scribbled with the ugliest insults she can tell that the characters are established and well-roundedthink of. On the other hand, there are such frequent references They're never meant to past events – presumablyreach him, adventures from the previous three books – that it of course. Her plan is clear to get her anger out like this is an instalment in an ongoing story , and not a stand-alone bookthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ghosts of HeavenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=If anyone ever suggests to you that science and art (or philosophy) don't go togetherIn a word, give them rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this book! The Ghosts of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the natural constant Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the spiralDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation of current Darks are the birth Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the universeHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, the Solar System and us and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the dimensional spiral we call the helixsea one day eleven years ago. It also explains that we can read But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the stories in any world of the twenty-four possible orders we pleaseprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black Julia and othersthe Shark|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A weekJulia, a month, a year – or life? Is that timeour pre-scale different, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who is, of course, both 51 (in our earthlyteen heroine, televisual representation) has been packed off with her parents and 900 and more their cat from the family home in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen on TVsummer, in honour the far NE of the 50th birthday proceedingsScottish islands. But now Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is a year on, and we're a further Doctor down going to be automating the line. And so what was '11 Doctorslantern, 11 Stories' which is now '12 Doctorshis specialist thing, 12 Stories'. So while many of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the only addition is the lastelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last timewell, then chucking in the (what might only she will be temporarily) concluding story at the endhomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Opal PlumsteadJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Living in Edwardian EnglandScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to a public school wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and dreams of going shooting other outlaws to universitykeep herself alive. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to prison and Opal is forced flee to abandon her education for a job in the Fairy Glen sweet factorymythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but the factory's ownerTogether, Mrs Robertsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, notices her artistic talent the cannibalistic Tainted and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Robertsall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Opal learns about but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the suffragette movement and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurst. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lies We Tell OurselvesMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Robin TalleySlingshot|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=The year is 1959, and Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a small group secret illegitimate daughter of black students are attending Jefferson Higha man with a "real" family, a previously all-white school. Barely anyone she is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going used to Jefferson, and the group face not being a terrifying ordeal as they're surrounded by priority in people who want to see them fail. Chief amongst them is Linda Hairston, daughter of one of the town's most vocal segregationalistslives. But when Sarah and Linda start working together on she defends a school projectrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, they start to realise they may have more her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in common than they think - and friendship might not be all they're looking it that she never asked for from each other: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkT L Huchu|authortitle=John Twelve HawksThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Jacob Underwood Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the deadof Edinburgh for their living relatives. At leastEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, he thinks he isbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Suffering However, there's an evil stalking the after effects ruined streets of a traumatic accidentEdinburgh, Jacob believes he is dead, just a spark existing inside a body, but unable to fully interact with anything around himtargeting the city's children. Emotionally detached and living in a shadowySoon, silent world, Jacob Ropa is pulled into the ideal assassin. When search for a new hit is assigned to him, Jacob must prepare himself - and missing boy at the request of his journey dead mother. She will change both his self, end up discovering an occult library and how he sees realise that the world around himof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Cure For DreamingKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Cat WintersLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Olivia Mead is strongHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, independently-minded and unrepentant Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her beliefslife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', but there is an online support group where she talks to a certain natural vulnerability bunch of 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 personality which makes her so appealing. She isn’t closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a ruthlesswhile, remorseless warriorPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a human being who simply wants werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be treated like one, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beauty, because this isn’t the point of her character. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held values, which girl she sticks by even at an age when it would be so easy has been talking to go with online for the flowpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|title=Belzhar|author=Meg Wolitzer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I was sent here because of a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfield, and I loved him and then he died, and almost a year passed and no-one knew what to do with me.'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in school. friends, food, family, even therapy. And so, in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Atkins|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)|rating=3|genre=Teens|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 Move on board about this and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as 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 somewhere. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was a bit worried about him using it - but she did offer to go out with him so that he could get some practice in. Ryan knew that the time for ''practicing'' was past. I mean, he'd ''passed'' his test, hadn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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