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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryMax Boucherat|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities Last Life of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=Thanks for the TroubleLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Parker hasnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't spoken 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 singleblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, solitary word for the last five yearsworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. He hasn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't started applying for college yetfind herself entirely on her own, eitherand then she finds something even more spooky. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish For the server she and her bestie and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending classnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. He has also developed a petty theft habit When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, which he indulges and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there are, but reasons don't help much.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughRachel Greenlaw|title=13 MinutesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you think about it, you ''I can count several things in 13shear the song of the sea. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releaseThe call of the deep, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this titleanswering beat in my heart. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fameRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, considering that survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than everwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, and is one of those social media starlets the seven who swim out to survey the ruins as far as ''rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the hiveisland's leader and Mira' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howlands father. Desperate to save him from death, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of Mira makes a bargain with a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read wreck survivor who is as charming as he is concerned secretive and with the fight for only coordinates to guide her to work out why , she was sets off in search of a family secret that riverlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although it's mostly taken as her journey takes her from the point watched streets of view foreign islands to the heart of a girl on the edge smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her circle, Beccahome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimHarry Allen|title=AfterlightChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance to find out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.
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{{newreview
|title=Beautiful Broken Things
|author=Sara Barnard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Caddy Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Rosie have been best friends for years she is a talented singer. Life is hard and even going to different schools hasn't parted them. And this food is the summer that Rosie intends difficult to be different. She'll get a boyfriendcome by, finally. Perhaps even lose so Seo and her virginity. And experience a Significant Life Event. But friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the best laid plans meagre rations of rice and all that..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettAlexia Casale|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brotherSing if you Can's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become her mentor and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demonst Dance|rating=35
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a Box of Demons, which like those TVlife-advertised DIY liquidschanging disability too, does exactly but that's what it says Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the tinmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at schoolBut she comes back fighting, caused no end of mischief he has had desperate to take avoid the blame forpity stares, and may even have had something desperate to get back to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital. But is life that all it contains? The demons, 's as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now new (a wet and stormy Februarycute!)boy in school, and here (North Wales) her music A Level performance piece to try to have it sort out once , and for just the day to day traumas of allthe challenges 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>1447273737</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboSimon Fox|title=Dreaming the BearDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's a typical teenager whose natural habitat Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the shopping mall force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the multiplexrun. It's They get together, thereforebut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust leaving Archie on the late express to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionBrighton, toting a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that she's also recovering tin his father was determined to keep away from pneumonia his colleagues, and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter bearer of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordLex Croucher|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He lives, unknowingly, among a family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everything, and could tell you what happened on every day of his life, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years old, and is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both in time and space. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and is going to speak from beyond the grave, and send Al on a true mission through time, one that will either save his life, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.
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{{newreview
|title=Anna and the Swallow Man
|author=Gavriel Savit
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about Who knew that what I really needed to be rounded up read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the Nazi purge of intellectualsa most delightful way. Knowing In this is likely story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to happentheir mutual disgust! Gwen, he leaves her you see, is in love with Bridget (the care of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend for boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the daysubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. When her father doesn't return to collect her But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna or are they destined to live a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old and will never see her father again.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantNick Brooks|title= Front LinesPromise Boys|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the Alliance and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first time. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Courtney Summers|title=All The Rage|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=In a small townWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseseemingly, has a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as thatgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and yet it is so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid each could have been there at the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope with the days time of his murder. But who killed him, and weeks why, and years after such an ordeal; if any of the idea thatboys are innocent, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you you.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson1919635017|title=Mind Your HeadA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasnSolomon Klyne isn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a frank and accessible overview series of the issues facing young people with regards robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how get an answer to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawsonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help herll answer the first one: for his grandmother. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=FacelessDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a normal high standard school student. She's the star , 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 four with both his best buddy from the school running football team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and she's two other old muckers – in fact they all set to go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedysingle-sex school can form, Maisie finds herself in hospital the talk in the serious burns unit class and without most of her faceout often turns to sex. When a donor appears, Maisie Which is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsconfusing for Ant, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie as he doesn't feel luckyknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Under this new face He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, with its heavy scarringfor several months now, she and so has no idea effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who she is anymorehe's been having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=How not to DisappearStitched Up|author=Clare FurnissSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable summer. Both her best friends, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up in the south of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous and it's very dispiriting to be the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.
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{{newreview
|author=Caroline Lawrence
|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=King Metabus had not been Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a good king and his escape from his kingdom fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was hurried happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and pursued. When he reached woman came to the river he had village to make offer Hahn a decision job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and he thought first of Hanh was on the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her mini-bus to his javelinHanoi. Only, which he threw across Hanh and the torrentother girls were not going to work in a shop, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived they were to work in a cave with her father and ran wild virtual slavery in the forestan illegal garment factory. In nearby Laurentum, Acca had grown up hearing You know those jeans you really wanted: the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the javelin embedded in legs? The ones with the ground artfully-placed rips and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilladistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's father, when the girls became firm friendsquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPatrice Lawrence|title=A Dark TradeNeedle|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me |rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=At schoolBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalcharacters and readers both. But at home Teva 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 life is about as far from normal as itold room while he's possible to getat uni. Locked away Such a tempestuous personality may be in what everyone outside thinks is need of a haunted house are eleven other Tevascomfort blanket, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with you might perhaps think, and the new Teva going out in creation of one such item is part of the world while the previous Teva plot here, as Charlene is kept insidea wonder knitter, trapped as and is making something full of love for her younger selfsister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come todrink and make merry between their conquests. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' EthanHowever, who when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is 14a Crafter like him, is just hoping someone with the power to wake up in time to begin his high school career in form paper into whatever she desires – a brand new townpower sought after all across the Empire. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What He asks her to come with him, to leave the what? How can this happen? It turns out life of dreary servitude that Ethanis all she has known. Well, now Drewsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankindmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and he will undergo not oneshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, but THREE more such changes a sky- one for each year ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreview|title=River of Ink 1: Genesis|author=Helen Dennis|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Marcus Sedgwick|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Despite the nameMeet Fitz, there is nothing masculine about the island a young Scottish lad full of Menos frustration at allhimself. Apart from a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island Lockdown is a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is femalejust over, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of life. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – of girls turning he should be free to womendo what he wants, of students turning to Sistersgo where he wants and with whom he wants, of people learning what the religion means for them starting to practise but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it with a duty when he talks to othershis best friend, Cassie. And, They were half of coursea desultory school band, they are on but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what enigmatic – saying she could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes hear a subhuman hum coming from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselvesearth. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like Is this connected with one of her shadow to learn eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the ropestruth? Well, not when Cassie has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasygone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilTori Bovalino|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alba and Working all summer in her friends have just finished high boarding school. Now they must decide what 's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get — especially when she gets a job and make request for over a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba hundred books that she has to deliver herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And if What makes it worse isthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, is it worth leaving and a happy life and man Tess hates. As a friendship group petty act of revenge for? It's making her find and deliver such a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any caselarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the friendship group might disappear whatever ugliest insults she decidescan think of. Because each member They're 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 has the same choice before would be, if someone hadn't delivered themfor her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Philip Reeve|title=Dangerous Lies Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programmeIn a word, 17 year old Estella's life rich. There is turned upside downcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. She's torn away from her longThere are troll people on it, and sea-term boyfriend witches, and forced legends of the Dark family that has to abandon both her friends keep watch for magical islands and her identity. Leaving city life behind hertheir monster approaching from even further west, she's convinced there is where no way she will be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraskaship dare sail. ButThe current Darks are the Watcher, thenAndrewe, she hadn't expected who has to fall for keep notes of activity from the boy next door. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary D Schmidt|title=Orbiting Jupiter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. Hehead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's troubled: foundling daughter, who washed up out of the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his teacher. And there's something else about Josephcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, too: he has a daughterlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne Kiran Millwood Hargrave and E H ShepardTom de Freston|title=Winnie-Julia and the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomShark
|rating=4
|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain WinnieJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should family home in SW England to be honoured that he's chosen to share with us lighthousekeepers for a few summer, in the far NE of his wise wordsthe Scottish islands. You seeHere be Vikings, occasionally (well, an awful lot that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the timelantern, which is his specialist thing, if we're honest) we look for wisdom while mum will be leaving her career in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach algae behind to life and who may well have discovered hunt the secret of happinesselusive Greenland shark. Pooh's take on life is very simple And Julia, well, she will be homesick and none the worse for thatalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison Jonathan Stroud|title=Never EversThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schoolsScarlett McCain is an outlaw, six 14 year-old friends rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a ski / snowboarding trip darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to Franceflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Add a 15 yearTogether, they must brave man-old French popstar shooting his latest video eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and you have all the perfect recipe for a lighthorrors of post-hearted and funny teen romance. apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperMercedes Helnwein|title=Keep The FaithSlingshot|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary= The basics Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of the plot here are that Faith is going on a French exchangeman with a "real" family, which best friend Megs she is strangely reluctant used to join her on. Meanwhile therenot being a priority in people's more lives. But when she defends a random boy troublein her class with her slingshot, while her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she's also trying to juggle revising spend her time writing novels in solitude, for exams and applying to become her life now has a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice boy in the minds of certain teachers!) The plot is it that she never really the main point of a Faith book though - instead it's a welcome way to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionasked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsT L Huchu|title=Lucerin: IdentityThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aiden Chase seemsRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, on using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the face dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bulliessupport not only herself, homework but her younger sister and girlsher aging grandmother. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; However, there's an evil stalking the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable to one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head ruined streets of a group of powerful Lucerin who 'pull Edinburgh, targeting the stringscity' behind the world sceness children. Initially a force for peaceSoon, Ropa is pulled into the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could search for a missing boy like Aiden have at the power to change all request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring harmony an end to the Lucerin once morethis evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiKristen O'Neal|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention of Malala. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girl. One voice among many. It's just that she decided to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her to a hospital, Lycanthropy and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Anything That Isn't ThisOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5
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|summary=Frank Palp lives in a dullHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of life, from the food Priya has to come to terms with the architecture. So insidious are these changes, fact that no-one seems to have noticed them, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society she may be in general seem to be completely oblivious to constant pain for the sinister nature rest of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quoher life. The all-powerful She joins ''MinistryOof Ouch My Bones'' has , an online support group where she talks to a stranglehold on everything bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and everyone, with help each household having its own assigned studentother out, who records everything while also providing an escape to just joke and reports suspicious activity mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the mysterious Mr Vertexchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Frank thinks he But what she doesn't expect to find there is the only person who hates this oppressive world, but one day he finds a message werewolf in a bottle with a wish the basement – and for ''anything that isn't this,'' and goes on a desperate search werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-matepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>1683692349
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