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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Up In FlamesFrontpage|author=Nicole Williams|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Elle Montgomery has spent her whole life doing exactly what she's supposed to - what everyone else thinks is how she should live her life. Outside, Elle is smiling politely and perfectly happy with her perfect-fit boyfriend. Inside, Elle is screaming for the chance to do something a bit wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)|author=Anne PerryThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Trench warfare We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has widely been acknowledged as one of the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically and mentally. Death seemed inevitable for manymain intention, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among to log on to Voxminer, the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsworld-building, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire critter- he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice collecting game that is donea hit in Lori's world. It sounds pretty straight forward But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but there is far and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to it than this enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and justice her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is truly poetic in this case.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Moose BabyFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffRachel Greenlaw|ratingtitle=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thing. Instead of giving birth to a normal little girl as she was expecting, she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Section. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births to human mothers. For some unexplained reason, a number of women have given birth to animals - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope with the trials Compass and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Memory: She's Dying to Remember|author=Christoph MarziBlade|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 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 dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the [[Gods pity stares, and Warriors desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (1cute!) by Michelle Paver|first book]] boy in this series finishedschool, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslavedher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and forced just the day to work in day traumas of all the copper mines on Thalakrea, a volcanic islandchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. The Crows still have the dagger of prophecy So even though she can't dance anymore, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas is determined might she be able to escape and find his missing sister, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=Cruel SummerFrontpage|author=James Dawson|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshaw's suicide, her friends get together in a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apart, there's a lot to talk about - but the elephant in the room is Janey's death. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced she killed herself - and when someone else from their old school turns up, they seem to confirm his suspicions. Except very quickly, there's another dead body, and Ryan and his friends need to get rid of the corpse. Of course, where there's a murder victim, there's also a murderer - who can it be? Will anyone stay alive to find out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|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 the Shadow Fold with a horrific new power, the Darkling could prove himself to be more dangerous than ever. Alina will be torn between her growing power, the man she loves, and 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 to keep her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find 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 way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=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 secret place, and join himon the run. When he wakes They get together, his bedclothes are scorched. And but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when his mother finds out, Lucky's world the father is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceshiparrested, leaving Archie on the runlate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and in the middle bearer of a warzone. Everything Lucky has been brought up to believe is being testedwhole heap of questions. 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 father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin Benway|title=Spy Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spy, 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 the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her for a solo run, she's not sure what to expect. Thrown into high school for the first time ever, she's got a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivier, stop a security leak, 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>}} {{newreviewLex Croucher|title=The Flappers: Diva|author=Jillian Larkin|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Clara Knowles Gwen 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 Art Are Not in jail in the blink of an eye...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight 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 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 him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Black Dragon (Mysterium)|author=Julian SedgwickLove

|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. They have plenty of money and they intend to party hard before college beckons. It's a tight group Here be Vikings, but no-one is tighter than Anna and Elise. 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, like a firekind of Scottish island. Anna Dad is beginning going to find it difficult to balance these two intense relationships and she is hoping that this holiday will make everything great again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Mirror Chronicles: be automating the Bell Between Worlds|author=Ian Johnstone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book lantern, which is a boy of twelvehis specialist thing, orphaned, lonely and unloved. He spends the little free time he has while mum will be leaving her career in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on algae behind to hunt the path to his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worldselusive Greenland shark. But in line with the traditions of the genre And Julia, well, this path she will be fraught with fear, danger homesick and lossalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brooklyn GirlsJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Gemma BurgessThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=22-year-old Pia Keller has screwed up againScarlett 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 shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She should be living the dreamBut then she meets Albert Browne, sharing a Brooklyn townhouse dark boy with her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads to her getting sacked from her new jobdark powers and a darker past. After hearing thisWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, her parents are ready they plan to summon her flee to live with them abroadthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. They clearly don't think she's mature enough Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to look after herself - can she prove them wrongreach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CarnabyMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Cate SampsonSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Sarah's mother was murdered and Sarah found the bodyGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. AgonisinglyAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she didnis used to not being a priority in people't even realise she'd found the body at first - Sarah thought her mother was asleep on the sofas lives. But when she wasn't. Borys - Sarah's sister Jude's boyfriend - has been accused of the murder and the trial is coming up, defends a random boy in her class with Sarah as a key witness. A school counsellorher slingshot, a lawyer and a police officer are all trying to prepare her, but Sarah simple existence is changed for good. No longer can't think about that. It's too dangerous. And she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has more than a court case on her plateboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost StadiumT L Huchu|authortitle=Tom Palmer The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read on his own. He loves the short but exciting storiesRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the easy-to-read textdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. With this book thoughEver since she dropped out of school, the temptation she's been using it to turn out the lights support not only herself, but her younger sister and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resisther aging grandmother. It begins as a boyHowever, there's own adventure. Three boysan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with targeting the perfect plan to start their summer holidays on a high notecity's children. Their local football club has been closed for yearsSoon, but Ropa is pulled into the boys have search for a scheme to get into missing boy at the stadium one last time request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and spend a night camping on realise that the pitchworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. My son immediately realised Will she find the football pitch would be the perfect place missing children and bring an end to camp out. It is difficult to get into, but once therethis evil, or will 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...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BrockKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Anthony McGowanLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=The events Having 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 the badger bait are horrifyingher life. Thankfully the author does not feel the need She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to give us all the gory detail, but in a sense, he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaidbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Everything They talk about this book is extremely realistic. I am their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an adult, escape to just joke and this book had my stomach in knotsmess around. It isnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't just what happens respond to the animalschat for a while, but the psychological terror directed at the boys as wellPriya becomes concerned. This is made more intense by the level of character development in this bookShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. McGowan has created characters with such depth I canBut what she doesn'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 expect to life it find there is difficult to believe you are reading fiction. The characters a werewolf 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 the basement – and for that werewolf to be the author girl she has succeeded in making the characters real been talking to online for the readerpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Cat Clarke|title=Falling|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Falling'' is a book that I liked for some reasons, and disliked for others. It is very short and terribly bleak romance. Anna seems to have it all. She is popular, pretty, and has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriend, Cam. I'm afraid I never warmed to Anna though. She comes across as one of those people who feel the world revolves around them. Self centred as she is, she does truly care for her best friend Tilly, perhaps more than she realises. It all comes together in tragic misunderstanding on the night of Cam's big party, a party he never wanted to have, but that Anna pushed him into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philippa Gregory|title=Stormbringers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Luca Vero, his servant Frieze, and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of the end of the world. Accompanied by Lady Isolde and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before the mysterious Johann, a young body claiming to be called by God. He's followed by a horde of children who he's leading Move on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Even though his grandiose claims that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca and Isolde believe him - could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading the children, and Luca and Isolde, into tragedy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]