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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughMax Boucherat|title=The Death HouseLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by I can hear the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place song of exile for teenagers with the Defective genesea. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause The call of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things godeep, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children answering beat in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Charlie Fletcher|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London Pride|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Your city is lost. Your city is not yours. Your city is minemy heart.''

That's what Bast saysRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The Ancient Egyptian goddessMira, freed from thousands like her mother before her, is one of years imprisonmentthe seven who 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, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All they capture the humans are frozen in suspended animationisland's leader and Mira's father. All the humans exceptDesperate to save him from death, that Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is, brother secretive and sister Will and Jowith only coordinates to guide her, who are protected by she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the scarab bracelets they wearsea. And nowWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the Spits (good statues) and has sent heart of the bad statues (Taints) smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to find save the two children who are threatening future of her planshome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyHarry Allen|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter Children of the Sun

|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla Ra Eun Seo lives in the court, engaged to the princea North Korean town and she is a talented singer. But this Life is no fairytale – he hard and food is one of the only people she can touchdifficult to come by, made immune to the poison carried in so Seo and her veins. The embodiment of a goddessfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Twylla is the executioner, forced looking for tree bark and edible grasses to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether supplement the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least meagre rations of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemiesrice and kimchi at home. Can she survive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryAlexia Casale|title=Mind GamesSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Luna is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a Refuser. In her worldlife-changing disability too, a Refuser but that's what Ven is a kind dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of cross between a conscientious objector and a Ludditedance performance that was going to change her life. In this post WW3 Britain But she comes back fighting, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to spend most of their lives in a virtual environmentlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. People don Meanwhile there't just play s a new (cute!) boy in the vast array of games: they workschool, they learn, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, like Luna, are shut out and just the day to day traumas of all the best careers and viewed with suspicionchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonSimon Fox|title=How to Fly with Broken WingsDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert has given him an assignment he's going to find difficult. He must make two friends of Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his own age. That's tricky when you're shift on the autistic spectrum force, and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join in with Finn when then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he bullies you fetch something from a secret place, and makes you jump from increasingly high placesjoin him on the run. Sasha They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is torn. She loves Finn arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to pieces but she can't bear bullying keep away from his colleagues, and she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has the bearer of a secret whole heap of his own that's driving his rotten behaviourquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaLex Croucher|title=SoulprintGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Alina Chase lives Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a future America obsessed by soulprintingmost delightful way. Scientific advances In this story, Gwen and Arthur have enabled the tracking of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the person in whom their soul mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and in love with Bridget (the problems have led to Alinakingdom's ''containment''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jasmine Warga|title=My Heart and Other Black Holes|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhere. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, and her partonly female knight) -time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf of various customers, is far something that Art discovers from satisfyingher private diaries. It’s understandable that she’s not And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a very happy girl. She’s not boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobodysubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when reallythey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But she’s nobody with as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a dark secret. She wants to take her own lifeway in which they can both truly be themselves, and she’s making plans or are they destined to make this happen.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys

|summary=Mare When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a Red - a race kept in lives grudge of poverty some description against Principal Moore, and servitude by each could have been there at the Silverstime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives if any of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitboys are innocent, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves will they be able to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Darkest Part of the ForestA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Holly BlackKitt Townsend

|summary=The people Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of Fairfold know not robberies? And how did he learn to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide crack safes? You'll have to wait to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never get an answer to be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a touristsecond question because I avoid spoilers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Malorie Blackman|title=Love Hurts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=But I''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heart's joy!) to keep you believing in love. And we all want to believe in love, don't we? If you are ll answer the first one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now: for his grandmother. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman Patrick Ness and Meagan SpoonerTea Bendix|title=These Broken StarsDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Lilac Ant is the untouchable LaRoux princess, daughter of the richest man in the Universe. Tarver is Year Eleven at quite a decorated war herostandard school, allowed and is surprised to mingle outside find his social circles because 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 upper classes love football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to celebrate his heroismprimary school days together. After chance meeting aboard As they're all fired up, straining at the Icarus leash only a single- sex school can form, the most luxurious ship space travel has talk in class and out often turns to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossomingsex. But Tarver knows Which is confusing for Ant, as he isndoesn't good enough know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for Lilacseveral months now, and Lilac knows so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time with's set in stone, he can't be sure. It And that's over before itmostly because of who he's even begunbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1800901232|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the [[Zommini-B by Darren Shan|first book]] bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in this seriesa shop, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>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? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HerePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Gayle FormanNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'I regret of this piece is extremely hard for some people to inform you that I have had to take my own lifelike, 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' Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by emails at uni. A flatSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, formalyou might perhaps think, email. We follow her over and the creation of one such item is part of the ensuing months plot here, as she searches Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for answers. How could her younger sister – a younger sister she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongingsallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Cody finds emails on her laptop and then force people to a boy that has broken give her heart. Is Ben McAllister the cause of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted filetwo days off school, toowhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And when Cody finally opens itthen... well, she finds information that will take her on a journeywhat exactly happens is not for me to say, not only through Meg's life, but also her ownto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieAnn Sei Lin|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior Kurara has spent her entire life as he is known a servant on the Spokane Indian Reservation Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where he livessoldiers 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 about a Crafter like him, someone with the power to face form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challengesEmpire. He knows the decision asks her to go come with him, to leave the rich life of dreary servitude that is all-white schoolshe has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the nearby town of Reardanmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to monstrous paper spirit known as a town where he's going shikigami, and she is forced to be even more of a target, even more flee out of place, than he already is on into the rezworld. It means risking the wrath of She joins Himura aboard the other IndiansOrihime, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it sky-ship whose express purpose is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationto hunt down shikigami, and it is a path that he must walk for the sake of not just his future, but that whole world of his tribe.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=JuvieWrath

|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alikeMeet Fitz, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself young Scottish lad full of frustration at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgementhimself. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong timeLockdown is only just over, and before they know it they're in court trying he should be free to do what he wants, to clear their names. Carla has a history go where he wants and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some timewith whom he wants, away but he cannot stop himself from her young daughter putting his foot in a way that no one wants. There is a way outit when he talks to his best friend, thoughCassie. Sadie is, if not They were half of a good girldesultory school band, then definitely but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the better sister. If enigmatic – saying she takes could hear a subhuman hum coming from the blame, she'll likely get off earth. Is this connected with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for of her supposed role in eco-warrior parents saying the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|author=Andy McNab|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be an in-theatre intelligence gatherer for end of the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam world is new to this game. He still has already a lot to learn and he's going to have to do done deal? Is it the hard way - in Kenya, where the border with Somalia is subject to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age some spooky new kind of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=music she''The Age s dreaming of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the time to read on its first go around. I'm truth? Well, not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it when Cassie has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing Igone missing he can'd usually misst.. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveTori Bovalino|title=SienaThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley High, along with her clique the Starlets. Nothing can stand Working all summer in her way – not even boarding school's library is the return of ex-Starlet and her former best friend Romy, who spent last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a term in France after request for over a shocking incident one night led hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the headmistress deciding man who requested the girl needed to spend some time away from their books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, you know roughly what happens hereTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, but you donscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They't necessarily know whyre never meant to reach him, of course. If you haven’t read itHer plan is to get her anger out like this, I'd definitely suggest going for that one firstand then take them all off before delivering them. (There may No harm done… Or it would be spoilers here, although Iif someone hadn've tried to avoid anything too specifict delivered them for her.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlottePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Alex BellUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When Sophie 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 Jay play around with a ouija board app sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Jay has downloaded to his phonekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, things go awfully wrongwhere no ship dare sail. Sophie asks The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to speak keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Rebeccaworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, a cousin who washed up out of hers who died in mysterious circumstancesthe sea one day eleven years ago. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Jay drowns in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accidentworld of protecting their island, like it or not. Or was it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Red QueenJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mare is a Red Julia, our pre- teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a race kept summer, in lives the far NE of poverty and servitude by the SilversScottish islands. Here be Vikings, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives kind of luxuryScottish island. Learning Dad is going to survive amongst be automating the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitlantern, Mare which is swiftly thrown into his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, with treacherywell, plots she will be homesick and deadly games lurking round every corneralone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jekyll's MirrorJonathan Stroud|authortitle=William HusseyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam Scarlett McCain is doing his best but he feels an outlaw, rejecting the Wrath inside him all draconian conformity of the time. If your father had beaten your mother Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to deathwander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, wouldn't you? He tries robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to concentrate on schoolwork keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and his art and keep that anger locked away deep a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down inside, but it's not easythey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. His aunt Cora does her best Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to support him reach the Free Isles, but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that will they be any more accepted there than they are in the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) tree.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveMercedes Helnwein|title=StellaSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations''a "real" family, and throw she is used to not being a priority in a splash of people''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story which has surprising depth and has been one I've been thinking about s lives. But when she defends a lot since originally reading it towards the start of the yearrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. I read Stella for the first No longer can she spend her time after getting it out of the librarywriting novels in solitude, and at the time I was extremely impressed by the voices of lead characters Stella and Caitlin, but had issues with for her life now has a boy in it. On rereading, to prepare myself that she never asked 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: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonT L Huchu|title=The Art Library of Being Normalthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old David has always known that he Ropa Moyo is a transgender girl. ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to do so in my reviewtake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives.) However David has chosen a new girlEver since she dropped out of school, she's name and collects feminine clothes been using it to express that inner self. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie support not only herself, but her younger sister and Felixher aging grandmother. When Leo DentonHowever, who also has a secretthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, moves to Davidtargeting the city's school Eden Park from children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the rougher Cloverdale, search for a missing boy at the worlds request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the two collideworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildKristen O'Neal|title=The Vanishing Moment|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. It is teen fiction (and, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves), Lycanthropy and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Benwell|title=The Last Leaves FallingOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make come to terms with the maximum possible impact if you go into it, as I did, knowing barely anything about it. If you trust my recommendations enough to buy on one sentence, stop reading now and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely fact that she may be one of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Cohn and David Levithan|title=Dash and Lily's Book of Dares|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Just before Christmas, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook on constant pain for the shelf rest of her favourite bookshoplife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', in an effort online support group where she talks to find the kind a bunch of love that has made her brother so happyother teens living with chronic illnesses. Dash finds it and follows the instructions, setting off a chain of passing the book back and forth trading They talk about their hopes troubles and dreams. Could the two be just as right for help each other in person as they are in writing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)|title=My True Love Gave out, while also providing an escape to Me|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson just joke and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack of festive YA mess around – at the time, I think the choice seemed to be pretty much limited to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book . When Brigid—one of Daresher closest friends—doesn'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. Both fantastic books, but a thin spread compared t respond to the amount out there chat for adults and for younger children. (If I’m missing obvious ones, by the way, please let me know!) Thankfully, a dozen authorswhile, with Stephanie Perkins as the editor, have got together Priya becomes concerned. She decides to produce 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 was caught up by this novel from the first pages and read it with absorption in a single sitting. The young heroine, Lana Dukovskaya, is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences of steal her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmotherparents's name, we discover, has been erased from the records car and her mother is a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion of a ballerina: she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most of all she wants drive to experiment with the repertoire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leanne Hall|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brigid''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 themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder Years|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Martin Moone, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazy, he decides s house to get himself an imaginary friendcheck up on her. He enlists the help of his friend who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because But what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isnshe doesn't any good at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like expect to be your imaginary friend find there is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Impossible!|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Josie is twelve, and would much rather be a boy. 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