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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisMax Boucherat|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5
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|summary=Life is changing very fast for Ben Carrington. He is at We meet Lori on the opening of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in his grave when Benfirst evening she's mum and got the lad have house to prove how adept they are herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at her work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old job, of mountain rescueon her lonesome. She feels like setting up What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a new rescue agency with her nous blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the family fortunesworld-building, but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony critter-collecting game that is Jason Truby, a monumentally rich Internet magnate, who actually hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a modern-day tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadyt find herself entirely on her own, the top secret Gemini Forceand then she finds something even more spooky. Truby starts to get close For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the family enter shows signs of twotampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but the school-aged Ben isn't going to be allowed to learn just what dramatic escapades and her safe place in the agency game has to cover been doctored well, where is hea girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonRachel Greenlaw|title=Secrets, Schemes Compass and Sewing Machines|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is looking forward to being the star in the upcoming school production of Much Ado About Nothing, but after missing the audition, she's relegated to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plan, but it may leave her in a position to step into the lead role if needed - and there's a compensation in the form of new boy Connor, who's stage managing and after initially appearing to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin J Myers|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek Girl: All That Glitters|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you're a bright, enthusiastic teen but not top of the popularity polls at school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for you. Harriet Manners is, according to your point of view, either beautiful enough to travel the world modelling fabulous clothes, or a girl with a very ordinary face who got very, very lucky. She's clumsy and accident-prone, her dress sense leaves a lot to be desired, and she's far more inclined to research the fine art of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there and have a go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Falkoff|title=Playlist For The DeadBlade|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=This book markets itself as a mystery with a bit of a love story thrown in but it is more than that. It is about loss, anger, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and the desire to fit into a social group by connecting with other people. It addresses how people can change after a tragedy, the dangers of isolating oneself and how teens focus on pursuits such as gaming, science fiction, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture to express themselves and try to make sense of their world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lance Rubin|title=Denton Little's Deathdate|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Tomorrow is I can hear the day I'm going to diesong of the sea. I don't mean to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is The call of the deep, the day I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else answering beat in the world knows their deathdate. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably notmy heart.''
Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending deathRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Don't you think you wouldMira, too? But imagine what it's like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to live in survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a world where everyone knows trap to end the day wrecking, they will die. Rituals capture the island's leader and conventions spring upMira's father. You get Desperate to go save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to your own funeralguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. You could even get With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to make the most heart of your life if you know when it ends. You wonthe smuggler't pass up so many opportunitiess territory, perhaps?Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachHarry Allen|title=We All Looked Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possible, no a likely, end Children of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=This Shattered WorldSun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Stone-faced Captain Jubilee Chase Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is the best soldier on Avon, a planet in the midst of a rebelliontalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, where the terraforming won’t takeso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the mysterious Fury infects soldiers meagre rations of rice and turns them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, and she doesn’t understand whykimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinAlexia Casale|title=Black Dove, White RavenSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The essential role of aviators in the success or failure of modern war is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a givenlife-changing disability too, and fiction but that's what Ven is full of dealing with after collapsing on stage in the derring-do and dog-fight exploits middle of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstripdance performance that was going to change her life. But what if she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if not thousandspity stares, and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donald Hounam|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is a forensic sorcerer, employed desperate to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power back to summon demons and angelsa life that's as normal as she can possibly manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diana Sweeney|title=The Minnow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Diana Sweeney Meanwhile there's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deatha new (cute!) boy in school, grief, abuse, fear and loneliness. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement, and trying her music A Level performance piece to come try to terms with losssort out, bubbles and just under the surface, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt day to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues it from mawkishness is the beautiful voice day traumas of all the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer challenges her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey body continues to self-pity. She simply describes throw at her world as she sees it, matter-of-factto navigate. And the fact that her view is rather unusual ( So even though she talks to fish, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesncan't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a readerdance anymore, you just have might she be able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnSimon Fox|title=The GloryDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alex is what you might call a disruptive teenager. She's always getting into trouble but the latest trouble is the worst yet and her mum and step-dad have had enough. Even her father, far away in Australia with his new family, thinks something must be done. So Alex is sent all the way out to the States to a teenage boot camp. But even naughty teenagers have their plus points, and Alex's is her love of horses. She'll do anything to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.
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{{newreview
|author=Teresa Toten
|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller and marry the love of his life, Robyn. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s love, everything he is ignoring in the periphery is unravelling. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around him? When is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need saving?
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Bowler
|title=Game Changer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mikey is afraid of open spaces. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobe, actually - than face the world outside. But his family, in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportive. And with Meggie's help, Mikey is gradually beginning to face that world outside. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldn't have seen. And the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk to him...
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Pinborough
|title=The Death House
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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 the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children 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…
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{{newreview
|author=Charlie Fletcher
|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London Pride
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Your city Late one night Graham Blake is lost. Your city is not yours. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddess, freed late back from thousands of years imprisonmenthis shift on the force, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All the humans are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans exceptand then suddenly rings Archie, that isdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, brother and sister Will and Jo, who are protected by join him on the scarab bracelets they wearrun. And now They get together, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the Spits (good statues) and has sent father is arrested, leaving Archie on the bad statues (Taints) late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to find keep away from his colleagues, and the two children who are threatening her plansbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyLex Croucher|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried Gwen and Art Are Not in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced 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 the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind GamesLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Luna is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a Refuser. In her worldgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Ludditemost delightful way. In this post WW3 Britainstory, almost everyone has a brain implant which Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they use were tiny, much to spend most of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in the vast array of games: they workmutual disgust! Gwen, they learnyou see, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt out, like Luna, are shut out of in love with Bridget (the best careers and viewed with suspicion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Elson|title=How to Fly with Broken Wings|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. Hekingdom's good at schoolworkonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But Mrs Hubert has given him an assignment he's going to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find difficult. He must make two friends themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of his own age. That's tricky when you're on the autistic spectrum and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join falling in love with Finn each other, when he bullies you and makes you jump from increasingly high placesreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Sasha is torn. She loves Finn But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to pieces but she can't bear bullying and she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has live a secret of his own that's driving his rotten behaviour.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaNick Brooks|title=SoulprintPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled When the tracking principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidpolice station as suspects. Reincarnation is now an established fact Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the government maintains a database time of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedhis murder. But the discovery has led to problems who killed him, and why, and if any of the problems have led boys are innocent, will they be able to Alina's ''containment''.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jasmine Warga1919635017|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhere. She’s smart but not popularSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so high school’s not much fun, and her part-time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf of various customers, why is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s not he running around London committing a very happy 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. She’s not But I'll answer the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobody, reallyfirst one: for his grandmother. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria Aveyard|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 Patrick Ness and deadly games lurking round every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTea Bendix|title=The Darkest Part of the Forest|author=Holly BlackDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=The people Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of Fairfold know not to meddle four with both his best buddy from the faerie folkfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they wear their socks inside outall go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, fill their pockets with oatmeal the talk in class and they stay out of the forest on the full moonoften turns to sex. Tourists don’t Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know these thingswhat his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. People travel far He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and wide to see so has effectively progressed up the faerie town and the sleeping boy ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the glass coffin but one or two always go missingstone, never to he can't be seen againsure. Tourists, And that's mostly because of who he's been having the locals say, relationship and the folk don’t interfere sex with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1800901232|title=Love HurtsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereftTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Mixed Life in are enough moments of heartsease (the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and heart's joy!) woman came to the village to keep you believing offer Hahn a job in loveHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. And we all want Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to believe Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in lovea shop, don't wethey 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? If you are one of The ones with the few who don't, artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Childrentouched them? It's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, quite possible that Hanh and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young peopleher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerPatrice Lawrence|title=These Broken StarsNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lilac Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is the untouchable LaRoux princessextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, daughter and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the richest man in creation of one such item is part of the Universe. Tarver plot here, as Charlene is a decorated war herowonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her 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 mingle outside his social circles because the upper classes love to celebrate his heroismgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. After chance meeting aboard the Icarus - the most luxurious ship space travel has to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossoming. But Tarver knows he isn't good enough well, what exactly happens is not for Lilacme to say, only to remark how sharp and Lilac knows that her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time withpointy those knitting needles can be.. It's over before it's even begun.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanAnn Sei Lin|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenKurara 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 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 to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read 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 flee out into the [[Zomworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Gayle FormanWrath|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I regret to inform you that I have had to take my own life.'' Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by email. A flat, formal, email. We follow her over the ensuing months as she searches for answers. How could she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongings, Cody finds emails on her laptop to a boy that has broken her heart. Is Ben McAllister the cause of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted file, too. And when Cody finally opens it, she finds information that will take her on a journey, not only through Meg's life, but also her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sherman Alexie|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Arnold SpiritMeet Fitz, or Junior as he a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where only just over, and he lives, is about should be free to face the biggest challenge of his lifedo what he wants, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby town of Reardan, is a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a targetwants and with whom he wants, even more out of place, than but he already is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it means losing when he talks to his best friend and partner in crime, RowdyCassie. HoweverThey were half of a desultory school band, it is but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the only way he can possibly break through enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the vicious cycle earth. Is this connected with one of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over her eco-warrior parents saying the lives of so many of the inhabitants end of the reservation, and it world is already a path that he must walk for the sake done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of not ? Is she just his futurebonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, but that of his tribenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsTori Bovalino|title=JuvieThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=With the title Working all summer in her boarding school''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book s library is going the last thing Tess Matheson wants to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out do — especially when she gets a request for each other. So when Carla is at over a party and finds hundred books that she has to deliver herself at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at What makes it worse is the wrong place at man who requested the wrong timebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and before they know it they're in court trying to clear their namesa man Tess hates. Carla has As a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away petty act of revenge for some time, away from making her young daughter in find and deliver such a way that no one wants. There is a way outlarge request, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely the better sister. If she takes Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the blamebooks, she'll likely get off scribbled 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 the ugliest insults she can take one for the teamthink of. Except things donThey't go re never meant to reach him, of course. Her planis to get her anger out like this, and Sadie gets sent tothen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, youif someone hadn've guessed it, juvenile detention t delivered them for her supposed role in the crime.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3Philip Reeve|authortitle=Andy McNabUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce PlatoonIn a word, rich. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be There is certainly an abundance of riches inthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-theatre intelligence gatherer for witches, and legends of the British Army, then you need Dark family that has to be ready keep watch for anythingmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. And despite his trainingThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, Liam is new who has to this game. He still has a lot keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to learn worry about such local yokel superstitions, and heAndrewe's going to have to do it foundling daughter, who washed up out of the hard way - in Kenyasea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, where both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the border with Somalia is subject to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant groupworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Thompson WalkerKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Age of MiraclesJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those muchJulia, our pre-talked about books that I never got teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the time family home in SW England to read on its first go aroundbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. I'm not sure how I managed Here be Vikings, that, but I didkind of Scottish island. Anyway Dad is going to be automating the lantern, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themeswhich is his specialist thing, so it is right up my alley and not while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the sort of thing I'd usually misselusive Greenland shark. And soJulia, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market well, she will be homesick and even happier that they decided to send me a copyalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveJonathan Stroud|title=SienaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley HighScarlett McCain is an outlaw, along with her clique rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the Starlets. Nothing can stand in her way – not even wildlands between the return Seven Kingdoms of ex-Starlet Britain, robbing banks and her former best friend Romyshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, who spent a term in France after dark boy with dark powers and a shocking incident one night led darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the headmistress deciding mythical Free Isles of the girl needed to spend some time away from their schoolLondon Lagoon. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, you know roughly what happens herethe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but you don't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read it, I'd definitely suggest going for that one first. (There may will they be spoilers here, although I've tried to avoid anything too specific.)any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlotteMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Alex BellSlingshot|rating=43
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|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a ouija board app that Jay has downloaded to his phone"real" family, things go awfully wrong. Sophie asks she is used to speak to Rebecca, not being a cousin of hers who died priority in mysterious circumstancespeople's lives. But what Rebecca has to say when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is not changed for good. And that very nightNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Jay drowns for her life now has a boy in the canal after falling from his bikeit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. A tragic accident. Or was it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardT L Huchu|title=Red QueenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mare Ropa Moyo is a Red - ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a race kept in lives bit of poverty and servitude by Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Silversdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, a race with wealth but her younger sister and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxuryher aging grandmother. Learning to survive amongst However, there's an evil stalking the slum like conditions that ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Reds inhabitcity's children. Soon, Mare Ropa is swiftly thrown pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she had ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=JekyllKristen O's MirrorNeal|authortitle=William HusseyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
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|summary=Sam is doing his best but he feels Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the Wrath inside him all fact that she may be in constant pain for the timerest of her life. If your father had beaten your mother She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to deatha bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, wouldnwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't you? He tries respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to concentrate on schoolwork steal her parents' car and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but itdrive to Brigid's not easyhouse to check up on her. His aunt Cora does her best But what she doesn't expect to support him but his uncle Lionel find there is distrustful, sure a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) treepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>1683692349
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