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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixMax Boucherat|title=To Hold the Bridge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= A collection of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categories, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readers. It’s undoubtedly a must-read book for fans of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspect, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another star. Those new to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature The Last Life of the stories in the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jess Vallance|title=BirdyLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frances has always been a loner, quiet and isolated, so when We meet Lori on the first evening she's asked got the house to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesn't expect anything herself – no neighbour to come of itpop in, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassment. The last thing she expects is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many yearsbabysitter poorly, so when conflict inevitably arisesmother at work, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leah Thomas|title=Because You'll Never Meet Me|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ollie and Moritz can never meet. Because if they didjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, one of them would almost certainly dieon her lonesome. Why What could possibly go wrong? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted in his heart. Ollie spends his life hidden away Snuggled in a log cabin in the forest - away from all the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother and the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache for company. He did also have a friendblanket fort, Lizshe has one main intention, but he lost her a while back. Moritz and that is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyeslog on to Voxminer, Moritz "sees" the world through echolocation-building, like critter-collecting game that is a bat. You might think thathit in Lori's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him world. But first Lori has a freak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz |author=Bernard Ashley|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's London in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted and the East End is populated mainly by women and children. Josie and t find herself entirely on her friends are carrying on much as usualown, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes a terrible night of bombingshe finds something even more spooky. It's For the start of the Blitz server she and her bestie and 57 consecutive nights nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of bombing for the East Endtampering. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and the lucky ones make it out of the shelters her safe place in the morninggame has been doctored – well, while the unlucky ones don't see another sunrise.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accident SeasonRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Moira Fowley-DoyleCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=For a month in every year, ''I can hear the song of the month leading up to Halloween, Cara's family are susceptible to accidentssea. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimesThe call of the deep, the accidents are even fatal..answering beat in my heart.''

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the 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, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.Desperate to 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 guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a curseterritory, right? What else could it Mira must be?determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire Colour OneHarry Allen|authortitle=Jenny ValentineChildren of the Sun

|summary=Iris has never known her father. He didn't want her, her mother has always said. He threw them out years ago. But now Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she's about to meet him againis a talented singer. Her father Life is rich, you see, hard and dyingfood is difficult to come by, so Seo and Iris's mother and stepfather have worn out their welcome in LA. So they're running away from debts her friends Nari and towards a rich, terminally ill old manMin go foraging every evening, ripe looking for exploitation. There's also tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the small matter meagre rations of some of Iris's own bad behaviourrice and kimchi at home. But the less said about that, the better|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Potion DiariesAlexia Casale|authortitle=Amy AlwardSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Samantha It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a mixer of potions extraordinairedance performance that was going to change her life. Which is just as well But she comes back fighting, because someone has desperate to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yesavoid the pity stares, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, is it any wonder they fall in love with themselves? But this isndesperate to get back to a life that't whats as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant to make someone else fall new (cute!) boy in love with ''school, her''. And music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the resulting havoc caused by day to day traumas of all the wrong person taking the right potion leads challenges her body continues to throw at her to some very unstable magic that could threaten the very kingdom itselfnavigate. Hence the ''Wilde Hunt' So even though she can't dance anymore, a national quest might she be able to find the ingredients for a cure.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightSimon Fox|authortitle=Leo HuntDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset when he gets the news that his father has died. You might think that's a tad harsh, but Luke has been estranged Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his father for years. His primary concern is his mothershift on the force, who is disabled by crushing cluster headaches. Soand then suddenly rings Archie, rather than worry her, Luke heads off to a lawyer's office to deal with the reading of his father's will by himself. And demanding he gets fetch something from a shock. Luke's inheritance adds up to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guillermo del Torosecret place, Daniel Kraus and Sean Murray|title=Trollhunters|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=West Coast USA in join him on the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reportsrun. The parents with their new anguishesThey get together, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of but barely begin to smell the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city whiff of trolls, guilty of snatching Southern trains when the children. Last to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life father is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, howeverarrested, leaving Archie on the trolls are about late express to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fansBrighton, The Lunartics. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as toting a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for the people who killed tin his parents. He needs more than anything father was determined to find out why they died. And, fresh keep away from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermindhis colleagues, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor in the camp. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty bearer of his father's death. Travis has a lot whole heap of questions. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Lady: My Life as a Bitch|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sandra is a naughty kid. Fed up with the pressure of exams, a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing mother, she's gone a bit wild. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEs, and is running with some exciting but unreliable new pals. She's done a bit of shoplifting and slept with a few boys, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing moments. On this particular day, she's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off Michelle, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic man, causing him to spill his can of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases her and Sandra is furious too, because he's ruining her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dog.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsLex Croucher|title= TimebombGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Rab lives in the distant futureWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a world where space is at a premium due to population pressures most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and in which status is expressed by how Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much room you have to live in. People's lives are guided and supported by their Comsmutual disgust! Gwen, AIs which teachyou see, medicate, navigate and all sorts else besides. When Rabis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's mother buys him a silver skin only female knight) - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll be able to do with it will allow him to produce work something that will set him up for lifeArt discovers from her private diaries. He decides to investigate And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the 19th century discovery subterfuge of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - because his tower block of the future is built on that very sitefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.  But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in Stone Age Skara Brae.which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallyNick Brooks|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Promise Boys

|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still a teenagerWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, but he's already saved three boys find themselves called into the world oncepolice station as suspects. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al Each, seemingly, he joined has a crack military team grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and helped foil each could have been there at the threat time of a lethal bio-weapon, the Scarlatti wasphis murder. But there's no let-up for Finn. Before Al can restore who killed him , and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to normal size, a new threat emerges.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma Craigie|title= What Was Never Said |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= Remix|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassy, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but where do her loyalties really lie? Kaz, short for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off his bad reputation and win back the love of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop star, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Cassie Beasley1919635017|title=Circus Mirandus|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Micah is an orphan who has been raised by his grandfather, but now Micah’s grandfather is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enough, his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care of him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandus, where he was promised a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends Light. All Micah has A Thief to do is get Catch a message to the Light Bender and his grandfather can have his miracle. With the help of Jenny Mendoza (the smartest girl in the class), Micah sets his sights on the circus, a task that requires unconditional love and faith. Aunt Gertrudis is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ... are they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Finding Audrey|author=Sophie Kinsella|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Audrey has been stuck at home for a while now, ever since that awful business at her last school. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder and depression. Dr Sarah is impressed with Audrey's progress towards recovery, but Audrey still can't go out of the house, speak to strangers, or even make eye contact with her family. The painfully slow path to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on her. And then her brother's friend Linus shows up and begins to entice Audrey outside of herself again. He has a lovely orange-slice smile and writes funny notes and - to Audrey's disbelief - seems to like her. But Audrey really does need to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's a series of two steps forward and one step back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Extraordinary MeansKiller|author=Robyn SchneiderKitt Townsend

|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham HouseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he has no intention running around London committing a series of being there long. There is no way robberies? And how did he is going learn to crack safes? You'll have to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis wait to get in an answer to the way of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college and a stellar careersecond question because I avoid spoilers. He has even brought extra textbooks and test papers with him, so that he doesnBut I't fall behind during this period of quarantine in this medical facility ll answer the first one: for kids with this new strain of TBhis grandmother. But when he meets Sadie and her group of misfit friends, Lane begins to wonder if he's got his priorities straight. Perhaps there's more to life - and illness - than a progression of tests and achievements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steven CamdenPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= It’s About LoveDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poetAnt 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, Steven Camden so his desk is skilful at painting evocative imagery one of four with wordsboth his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. His second novel for teens enters As they're all fired up, straining at the world of leash only a single-sex school can form, the film scripttalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextualityas he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. It is He's had a tale of past mistakescasual relationship, violencea secret one, revengefor several months now, friendship and love. An emotiveso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', powerfulbut whether that's set in stone, thought provoking experience it rates a 4he can't be sure.5 And that's mostly because it lacks of who he's been having the magical ingredients of Camden’s debut, ‘Tape’. It doesn’t make relationship and the reader’s heart sing but it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tearsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer Niven |title= All the Bright Places|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Finch and Violet are both counting the days. Violet is on countdown to graduation, to getting away from the school and town that hold so many torturous memories. Finch, meanwhile has started from zero and is logging the number of days in a row he is awake. And he doesn’t mean that in terms of physically awake, but more so in terms of his emotions. Neither of them are particularly happy. At least one of them has a plan to make the pain stop in the most final way possible. It’s pretty horrific.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer|title=Off the Page|ratingisbn=4|genre=Teens|summary=Many readers can identify with the idea of falling in love with a hero from a book. After all, they are written to be appealing, with rugged good looks, charming personality, strength and wit. But what if the hero from your favourite book came to life and joined you in the real world? Can a storybook romance flourish in a High School setting? Or will our fairytale prince be keen to return to his homeland of unicorns, fairies, castles and mermaids? These are the dilemmas faced by awkward teen Delilah and her fantasy prince Oliver, who swaps places with a human boy in order to join his true love in the real world. The lovers may be together for now, but the book has other ideas, and soon begins rewriting itself to put everything back to how it was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473614287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Marr|title=Made For You|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eva Tilling comes from a wealthy, influential family and reigns supreme at school - she is well thought of and has expectations to live up to - nothing ever changes for her, but that’s just how things are in obsolete Jessup: nothing unusual or unexpected ever happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007584202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=Read Me Like A BookStitched Up|author=Liz KesslerSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Read Me Like A Book'' is both a comingTwelve-ofyear-age and old Hanh wanted to be a coming-out storyfashion designer. Ash feels as though everything is a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash is terrified they're going to split up. She's struggling to keep up her relationships Life in the rural village where she lived with her friends. She trying to decide whether or family was happy, if not to lose her virginity prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and how exactly she even feels about woman came to the boy she might lose village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it withwas an opportunity not to be missed. She's falling behind in her grades at school Some money changed hands and half of her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about itHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, while Hanh and the other half is panicking that she might girls were not get into universitygoing to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And if all 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 wasnfelt so soft when you touched them? It't enough, Ash is struck by a bolt from the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murray, s quite possible that Hanh and her English teacher..co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersPatrice Lawrence|title=AlienatedNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contactBrave. NowCharlene, Cara Sweeney has been chosen the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to host Aelyxlike, a L'eihr exchange studentcharacters and readers both. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride to any college she chooses Kicked out of the dealmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, some excellent material for her blogAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a chance to tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of historythe plot here, helping in as Charlene is a wonder 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 own way belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to form an alliance between the give her two racesdays off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersAnn Sei Lin|title=InvadedRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= To save the alliance between Humans and Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the L'eihrMidori, and save a massive dining hall floating in the planet from sky where soldiers of the deadly algae blooms Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that threaten she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to destroy form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the lifeof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Cara and Aeylx have she is forced to persuade flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the L'eihr that Humans Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and L'eihr can peacefully co-exist.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon MayoMarcus Sedgwick|title= ItchcraftWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Third book Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, 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 foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Itch sequence about enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the audacious, intrepid teen obsessed earth. Is this connected with collecting elements from one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Periodic Table to end of the detriment world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of his own lifemusic she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Electrifying, explosive, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shocks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569062</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidTori Bovalino|title=This is not a Love StoryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=This Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a perfect holiday read – but hundred books that doesn't mean you need she has to be on holiday to read deliver herself. What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They'This Is Not A Love Storyre never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn'' will waft you away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat and relocate you to Amsterdamt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingePhilip Reeve|title=The Lie TreeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerieIn a word, unreal atmosphere rich. There is certainly an abundance of her books. Mysteries lurk riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the shadowsScillies. There are troll people on it, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characterssea-witches, and legends of the strange Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the banal jostle each other for space on Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the pagesea one day eleven years ago. A world But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both familiar his sullen brother and outlandish is offered to ushis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turnlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrneKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lottery BoyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve year old Bully and his mongrel dogJulia, Jackour pre-teen heroine, have has been living rough packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for almost six months – ever since Bully's mum died. The future holds no hope untila summer, quite by accident, he finds in the lottery ticket he purchased for his mum hidden inside far NE of the last birthday card she gave himScottish islands. He checks the numbers and discovers he's won the jackpot Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. But there's only days left before Dad is going to be automating the ticket expires and Bully's not old enough lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to claim hunt the moneyelusive Greenland shark. To make matters worse And Julia, well, word of his winning ticket has got out she will be homesick and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after himalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PantherJonathan Stroud|authortitle=David OwenThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. He's binge eating Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and his weight has spiralledshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. He's fallen out But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with his best frienddark powers and a darker past. The girl he likes doesn't like him. He's in trouble at school. And if it weren't for his sister CharlotteWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, none they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of this shiznit would be happeningthe London Lagoon. If Charlotte wasn't depressedTogether, if she hadn't tried they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to... wellreach the Free Isles, you know... everything would but will they be fine, just like it used to be.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallMercedes Helnwein|title=The It GirlSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Anna Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying used to fit not being a priority in with people at 's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her new school – and convince them that she wasn’t actually trying to set class with her popular classmate’s hair on fireslingshot, it just happened. Her dad her simple existence is a well-known journalist who’s just written a book, and they get on well - until he falls changed for a famous actressgood. With the paparazzi buzzing over the news of the engagementNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Anna becomes for her life now has a new target boy in it that she never asked for them – but can this shy, nerdy girl cope with the sudden attention?: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>152905818X

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