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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Moose BabyMax Boucherat|authortitle=Meg RosoffThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- except for one thingbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Instead of giving birth to What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a normal little girl as blanket fort, she was expectinghas one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, she ends up delivering critter-collecting game that is a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectionhit in Lori's world. It seems there But first Lori has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births to human mothers. For some unexplained reasontiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, a number of women have given birth to animals - mostly mooseand then she finds something even more spooky. Jess feels confident For the server she can cope with the trials and tribulations her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of teenage parenthoodtampering. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust girl to.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Christoph MarziCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Jude ''I can see hear the song of the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away a lotsea. Instead, he spends most The call of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with deep, the livinganswering beat in my heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Dead Brigade|author=James Lovegrove|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at Rosevear, a standstill in remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in rocks and plundering the massacre of British soldierswrecks. Now that same officer Mira, like her mother before her, is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have one of the seven who swim out to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already deadsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Hammond has been given But when the task of training Council Watch lays a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune trap to painend the wrecking, disease they capture the island's leader and capable of fighting with massive injuriesMira's father. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructionsDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and meant with only coordinates to be incapable guide her, she sets off in search of independent thoughta family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. HoweverWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go as her journey takes her from the way they are meant watched streets of foreign islands to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part the heart of them is still human, still the soldier they once weresmuggler's territory, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have future of her home and the luxury of deathones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxHarry Allen|authortitle=Leon LeysonChildren of the Sun

|summary=This is the memoir of one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War II. It opens between the wars, with Leon's family living Ra Eun Seo lives in the small Polish a North Korean town of Narewkaand she is a talented singer. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy. Leon's father moved Life is hard and food is difficult to Krakow in the hopes of making a better life come by, so Seo and when Leon her friends Nari and his siblings eventually join himMin go foraging every evening, you can feel looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the wonder meagre rations of a little boy new to the big cityrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)Alexia Casale|authortitle=Michelle PaverSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=A year after the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslaved, and forced It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to work in the copper mines on Thalakrea, navigate a volcanic island. The Crows still have the dagger of prophecy, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas is determined to escape and find his missing sisterlife-changing disability too, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Cruel Summer|author=James Dawson|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshawthat's suicide, her friends get together what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apart, there's a lot dance performance that was going to talk about - but the elephant in the room is Janey's deathchange her life. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced But she killed herself - and when someone else from their old school turns upcomes back fighting, they seem desperate to confirm his suspicions. Except very quicklyavoid the pity stares, there's another dead body, and Ryan and his friends need desperate to get rid of the corpseback to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Of course, where Meanwhile there's a murder victimnew (cute!) boy in school, there's also a murderer - who can it be? Will anyone stay alive her music A Level performance piece to try to find sort out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Siege and Storm|author=Leigh Bardugo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=On the run from the Darkling, Alina and Mal are together at last. But when he emerges from just the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, the Darkling could prove himself day to be more dangerous than ever. Alina will be torn between her growing power, day traumas of all the man she loves, and challenges her patriotism - can she survive the oncoming storm?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants body continues to keep throw at her visions to herselfnavigate. The images So even though she sees woncan't go awaydance anymore, though - should might she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying be able to find sing her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=New England Rocks|author=Christina Courtenay|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=After being expelled from her boarding school, Rain Mackenzie gets sent abroad to New England, to live with her parents and attend the local high school. Not expecting to like anything about the place, she's surprised to find herself immediately falling for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlin. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in the waythrough instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PhoenixSimon Fox|authortitle=SF SaidDeadlock

|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But Late one nightGraham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he can feel fetch something from a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds outsecret place, Lucky's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship, join him on the run. They get together, and in but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of a warzone. Everything Lucky has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is raging, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his Southern trains when the father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Benway|title=Spy Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spyarrested, just like her parents. Well, not quite like her parents - she's far better than either at cracking safes. They've always worked as a team, though, so when leaving Archie on the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her for a solo run, she's not sure what late express to expect. Thrown into high school for the first time everBrighton, she's got toting a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivier, stop a security leaktin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and get out. Making friends with Jesse is easy. It's the getting out witout anyone getting their heart broken which might be tough. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Flappers: Diva|author=Jillian Larkin|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Clara Knowles and Lorraine Dyer are both devastated by Marcus Eastman's upcoming wedding. Can either of them stop it? Meanwhile, Gloria Carmody is socialising with business mogul Forrest Hamilton, as befits an icon of flapperdom. But it's not just pleasure for Gloria - if she can get some information about Forrest for the FBI, her future with boyfriend Jerome could be a bright one. If not, she could be back in jail in the blink of an eye...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight bearer of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life in fear whole heap of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to himquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Black Dragon (Mysterium)Lex Croucher|authortitle=Julian SedgwickGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Danny is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a fish out of water at his public school. gay Arthurian RomCom? Half ChineseBut honestly, he's still a newcomer after over a year, having grown up it lifted my spirits in a circus called The Mysteriummost delightful way. Those days behind himIn this story, he delights at the chance Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to go to Hong Kong their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with his guardian aunt Laura, even while sheBridget (the kingdom's there working as an undercover journalist, investigating nightmarish Triad gangsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Once in that exotic world it's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a quandary to know just what side who is onboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, what creating the subterfuge of falling in love with corrupt cropseach other, people who when really they are not enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they appear and more – but what on earth is the connection between all this and the darkcan both truly be themselves, disastrous ending the circus sufferedor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913700</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysNick Brooks|authortitle=Cristin TerrillPromise Boys

|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner by When the Doctor. They never see each other but are able to communicate through principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the cell wallpolice station as suspects. This is Each, seemingly, has a blessing but also a curse: they can grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each hear could have been there at the interrogations time of his murder. But who killed him, and torture meted out to the other. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in her cell. It's from her future self why, and it tells if any of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past boys are innocent, will they be able to try to put things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Love in RevolutionA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=B R CollinsKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Everyone in her village - in an unnamed Basque country - loves pello and Esteya is no different. ItSolomon Klyne isn's the national sport and its heroes are national heroes. That the holder of the Kings Cup hails from her village t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a source series of pride robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to Esteya, her twin brother Martin, and everyone elsethe second question because I avoid spoilers. Except older brother Leon. So when But I'll answer the Bull comes home first one: for a visit, everyone is excited. And when a young peasant boy challenges him to a game, everyone laughs. And when the peasant boy wins, everyone is shocked and discomfitedhis grandmother. Except Leon. Leon, a communist sympathiser, sees it as a symbolic victory of the peasant over the dissolute regime of the King. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815702</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=TerraDifferent for Boys

|genre=Science FictionTeens |summary=Terra Ant is different 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 four with both his best buddy from everyone else on Fnrr the football team, and not two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only because she has vowels a single-sex school can form, the talk in her nameclass and out often turns to sex. You seeWhich is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrrwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Her adoptive father (LbbpHe's had a casual relationship, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parentssecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the Bradshawsladder headed by 'experienced', on the planet Rrth but whether that's set in a moment of unthinking philanthropystone, he can't be sure. If only And that's mostly because of who he'd done a little more thinking s been having the relationship and little less philanthropy…the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=ThemStitched Up|author=L A WeatherlySteve Cole

|summary=Kylie and Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family had a was happy, if not prosperous upper middle class life , so when the smartly- until dressed man and woman came to the day Kylie's stepfather nearly beat her village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to deathbe missed. Forced Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to flee, they ended up in a shelterHanoi. Only, Hanh and are now trying the other girls were not going to start life over with work in a very different set of circumstances. Kylie's Mom is working and exhaustedshop, they live were to work in virtual slavery in a run down flat, an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the money barely stretches to covering groceries legs? The ones with the artfully- placed rips and as Kyliedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's little sister keeps reminding quite possible that Hanh and her co- this is all her fault. Pressures build up with strange phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found workers made them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Winter DamageFrontpage|author=Natasha Carthew|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The moor and all it had got was out there waiting for her in the dark, a cold rock thing, hard as nails.'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennor's mother has been gone for years - after they lost the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugs, she turned to religion. And left. But now the country is falling to pieces. There are riots. There's no money to be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on the rent and eviction is looming. The social are threatening to take Trip away. There's nothing else for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPatrice Lawrence|title=The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After Iris|author=Natasha FarrantNeedle|rating=43

|summary=A few years after IrisBrave. Charlene, the 's death, her twin sister Bluebell heroine' of this piece is still getting used extremely hard for some people to life without herlike, characters and readers both. She Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's also having to cope fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her parentsson Blake' frequent absencess 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 creation of one such item is part of the new au pairplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and the cute boy whois making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's just moved in next doorallowed contact with no more. Can she solve all We see Charlene prove her problems? And are the rest of belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her family coping with Iris being gone any better than 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>0571278213</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jon For ShortAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir StankovicRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=The book begins with Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a horrible dream massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of dark footsteps and the flash of knife blade plunging down again Empire come to drink and againmake merry between their conquests. Waking up brings no respite However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the terror or pain for Jon, because his waking world is even more frightening than power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the nightmareEmpire. He wakes up in a darkened hospital room. There are now windows asks her to the outsidecome with him, only a small frosted glass window to leave the hall which lets in a tiny bit life of lightdreary servitude that is all she has known. The nurses seem cruel and angry. They insist on calling him JoeWell, No soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter how often he tells them his name , because the Midori is Jonathan - Jon for short. The nightmare comes again destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and againshe is forced to flee out into the world. It starts out exactly She joins Himura aboard the sameOrihime, but each time it goes on just a little longer sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Jon sees a bit more. The dream is not the only cause of his terror. Each time when he wakes up, another part whole world of his body has been removed. Piece by piece he is being dismembered. Soon there will be nothing left of him - and no one will tell him why.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781121958</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All The Truth That's In MeMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Julie BerryWrath|rating=34.5

|summary=Four years agoMeet Fitz, Judith and another girl disappeareda young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Two years agoLockdown is only just over, Judith came back aloneand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and unable with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to speakhis best friend, Cassie. Shunned by most They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the people in enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her closeeco-knit community, 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 she Fitz find her voice to save those around herout the truth? Well, and herself?not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670786152</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RithmatistTori Bovalino|authortitle=Brandon SandersonThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=teensTeens|summary=Rithmatists - those with special talents who defend ordinary people against wild chalklings - must study and train hard at Working all summer in her boarding school 's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to create the defenses , lines, and chalklings they'll use do — especially when they get she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to Nebrask, deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the frontlinebooks: Mr Birch. JoelThe boarding school's headmaster, and a pupil at one man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such schoola large request, Armedius, studies harder than anyone else. He has a superb grasp Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the strategies involved and knows he would be an asset out at books, scribbled with the front. But Joel isn't a Rithmatist at allugliest insults she can think of. They're chosen in a special ceremonynever meant to reach him, and Joel was passed byof course. Now, as just an ordinary student at Armedius, he sneaks in Her plan is to join the Rithmatics students whenever possible. That seems get her anger out like this, and then take them all he can do - until Rithmatics students start disappearingoff before delivering them. Could JoelNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's lack of ability keep him safe, and therefore allow him to help solve the mystery?t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009532</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heart-shapedPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Siobhan ParkinsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ok. Before I even start reviewingIn a word, I need to explain just how much I loved this bookrich. It's the companion to There is certainly an earlier abundance of riches in this story from Siobhan Parkinsonset on a peculiar island called Wildsea, ''Bruised''British but way west, over beyond the same timeframeScillies. There are troll people on it, and following a supporting character whose story is intimately connectedsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Before I'd read The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to the end keep notes of activity from the first chapter of ''Heart-shaped''Hidden Lands, which is all of two-and-a-half pages long, I'd fallen his brother Will who lives in love London with Annie. And I knew I couldn't bear too much science in his head to read her story without reading Jonoworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe'sfoundling daughter, in ''Bruised''who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, first. So I rushed orff to Amazon both his sullen brother and downloaded his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it to my Kindle. You might or not find that particularly surprising, but it is. I review books. I hardly ever buy books because I have a pile of advance copies shouting ''My turn! My turn!'' whenever I look their way. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903608</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dangerous GirlsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Abigail HaasJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her friends went their cat from the family home in SW England to Aruba be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the Spring Break far NE of all Spring Breaksthe Scottish islands. These are privileged kids from an exclusive private school Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. They have plenty of money and they intend Dad is going to party hard before college beckons. It's a tight groupbe automating the lantern, but no-one which is tighter than Anna and Elisehis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. They have been inseparable since Elise rescued Anna from a high school bully. But now Anna also has Tate and this is a first love affair that consumes all And Julia, well, like a fire. Anna is beginning to find it difficult to balance these two intense relationships she will be homesick and alone – until she is hoping that this holiday will make everything great againsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119149</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The hero Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of this long the Surviving Towns and engrossing book is a boy Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of twelveBritain, orphanedrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, lonely a dark boy with dark powers and unloveda darker past. He spends With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the little free time he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedLondon Lagoon. Together, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old they must brave man who sets him on -eating wildlife, the path to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worlds. But in line with cannibalistic Tainted and all the traditions horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the genreFree Isles, this path but will they be fraught with fear, danger and loss.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|title=Brooklyn Girls|author=Gemma Burgess|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=22-year-old Pia Keller has screwed up again. She should be living the dream, sharing a Brooklyn townhouse with her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads to her getting sacked from her new job. After hearing this, her parents are ready to summon her to live with them abroad. They clearly don't think she's mature enough to look after herself - can she prove them wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Carnaby|author=Cate Sampson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sarah's mother was murdered and Sarah found the body. Agonisingly, she didn't even realise she'd found the body at first - Sarah thought her mother was asleep on the sofa. But she wasn't. Borys - Sarah's sister Jude's boyfriend - has been accused of the murder and the trial is coming up, with Sarah as a key witness. A school counsellor, a lawyer and a police officer are all trying to prepare her, but Sarah can't think about that. It's too dangerous. And she has more than a court case on her plate|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ghost Stadium|author=Tom Palmer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read on his own. He loves the short but exciting stories, and the easy-to-read text. With this book though, the temptation to turn out the lights and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resist. It begins as a boy's own adventure. Three boys, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan to start their summer holidays on a high note. Their local football club has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time and spend a night camping on the pitch. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place to camp out. It is difficult to get into, but once there, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There is only one problem. Places that are very difficult to get into can also be very difficult to get out of...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Brock|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The events of the badger bait are horrifying. Thankfully the author does not feel the need to give us all the gory detail, but in a sense, he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaid. Everything about this book is extremely realistic. I am an adult, and this book had my stomach in knots. It isn't just what happens to the animals, but the psychological terror directed at the boys as well. This is made more intense by the level of character development in this book. McGowan has created characters with such depth I can't help wondering if he has based any of this on real children. Perhaps not the badger baiting part, but the inner turmoil created by poverty, shattered families, and the responsibility of being a caretaker at an early age as well many other personality traits which are so true to life it is difficult to believe you are reading fiction. The characters in this book are so genuine, I feel as if I know them. My son also commented on how much he liked certain characters, a sure sign that the author has succeeded in making the characters real to the reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeMercedes Helnwein|title=FallingSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''Falling'' is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a book that I liked for some reasons"real" family, and disliked for others. It she is very short and terribly bleak romance. Anna seems used to have it all. She is popular, pretty, and has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriend, Cam. Inot being a priority in people'm afraid I never warmed to Anna thoughs lives. She comes across as one of those people who feel the world revolves around them. Self centred as But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is, changed for good. No longer can she does truly care for spend her best friend Tilly, perhaps more than she realises. It all comes together time writing novels in tragic misunderstanding on the night of Cam's big partysolitude, for her life now has a party he boy in it that she never wanted to have, but that Anna pushed him intoasked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa GregoryT L Huchu|title=StormbringersThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luca Vero, his servant FriezeRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the end dead of the worldEdinburgh for their living relatives. Accompanied by Lady Isolde Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her servant Ishraqaging grandmother. However, they arrive in Piccolo just before there's an evil stalking the mysterious Johannruined streets of Edinburgh, a young body claiming to be called by God. Hetargeting the city's followed by children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a horde missing boy at the request of children who he's leading on a pilgrimage to Jerusalemhis dead mother. Even though his grandiose claims She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca world of magic is far bigger and Isolde believe him - more dangerous than she ever could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading 've imagined. Will she find the missing children, and Luca and Isoldebring an end to this evil, into tragedyor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithKristen O'Neal|title=The Fury: The Director's CutLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at allHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. The official press release describes the Fury as She joins ''a zombie book without zombiesOof Ouch My Bones''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; a , an online support group of survivors, in this case all children struggling where she talks to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless bunch of other teens living deadwith chronic illnesses. They are ordinary people who go talk about ordinary lives with one exceptiontheir troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When they get near one Brigid—one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge her closest friends—doesn't respond to rip them apartthe chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and everyone drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends basement – and total strangers will give up everything for that werewolf to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back be the girl she has been talking to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least online for nowthe past few months. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>1683692349