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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in TwoFrontpage|author=Catherynne M ValenteMax Boucherat|rating=3.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=A while ago a friend recommended a book called [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]. I have to say, the title alone intrigued me, but somehow that title sat on my 'to get' pile and I never actually got around to reading it. Since then several other people (all adults) have suggested I might like it, so when I saw the latest book in this series was available I decided to give it a try. I really should have read the first two books, I think. This is the third in the series, and I believe there are going to be five altogether. There are some series which you can dip into without feeling too lost, but this isn't one Last Life of them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110218</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Old Dog, New Tricks|author=Bali Rai|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is the only friend he has, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old git, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Tesla 1Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother is at work, justan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome... well... lost. The only thing he What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has he has to remember his mother by one main intention, and that is a note telling him to go log on to Voxminer, the mysterious Steam Academyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. However, But first he Lori has to a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriorsherself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. What's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, For the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention server she and her bestie and energy nobody else should be able to killing Sebastian in particularenter shows signs of tampering. What's he done to deserve that? More to When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the pointgame has been doctored – well, whatever he's done, how can he survivewhere is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RedRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Libby GleesonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''MudI can hear the song of the sea. In her mouthThe call of the deep, her nose and her eyes. Mud the answering beat in her hair and caked on her neck and her arms. Mud filling her shoes and seeping through her clothes. She lay sprawled on her side, a garbled, barely distinct sound coming from her: jaymartinjaymartinmy heart.''

Who Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'jaymartin''? And s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is this girl? Red doesn't know who she as charming as he is or what has happened secretive and with only coordinates to guide her. She doesn't know what has caused the devastation all around her. Rescued from the mud by Peri, Red discovers that she's sets off in Sydney search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the aftermath of a terrible hurricanesea. Chaos is all around With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the emergency response struggles watched streets of foreign islands to get to grips with the deadheart of the smuggler's territory, injured and displaced. Through the noticeboard Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the rescue centre, Red future of her home and Peri discover that the ones she has a name. And a father. And a frightening secretholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917307</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Dead EndsFrontpage|author=Erin LangeHarry Allen|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Dane is a rebel who's close to getting kicked out of a school; Billy D is the new kid in town. One of Dane's few rules Children of behaviour is that he won't hit kids in special ed, so Billy D figures hanging around with someone tough who won't hit him is a good idea - although it's not that easy to convince Dane of this. He really needs to, though, because he has a puzzle to solve and Dane could be the perfect person to help him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Nomad (Faery Rebels) |author=R J AndersonSun|rating=4.5

|summary=Ok. Before we begin, you should know that ''Nomad'' Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is the second in a sequencetalented singer. So if you haven't yet read [[Swift Life is hard and food is difficult to come by R J Anderson|Swift]], you should probably start there. Don't read this review: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. We meet up with Ivy again as|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326485</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Forbidden Stone (The Copernicus Legacy)|author=Tony Abbott|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you like your fiction full of heart-stopping adventures, mysterious cults so Seo and constant danger, then you'll love this book. Codes, puzzles her friends Nari and ancient secrets aboundMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and there is no doubt that edible grasses to supplement the publisher's comparison with the novels for adults written by Dan Brown is justified. There's drama meagre rations of rice and deadly peril on pretty well every pagekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000754734X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Emily's Quest: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)Alexia Casale|authortitle=L M MontgomerySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=When I read this book as a teenager (many times over!) I loved EmilyIt's passion for writing, I loved the excitement of all the different events through the story and I loved the happy ending. Coming hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to the story now, twentynavigate a life-plus years laterchanging disability too, I found but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the book had middle of a rather different flavour dance performance that was going to itchange her life. It isBut she comes back fighting, at timesdesperate to avoid the pity stares, terribly, desperately sad. I was surprised, by and desperate to get back to a book life that is widely regarded 's as normal as a childrenshe can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's storya new (cute!) boy in school, at just how bleak Emily's life appears her music A Level performance piece to try to besort out, and how traumatic just the day to day traumas of all the events in challenges her body continues to throw at her life areto navigate. It is very well written, and I still experienced the same compulsion to read it as I used to find when I was younger, yet So even with the finalthough she can't dance anymore, desperate happy ending that Montgomery manages might she be able to squeeze in I was left feeling rather contemplative.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844089878</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonSimon Fox|title=A Room Full of ChocolateDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sometimes family isn't the Late one you are born into but night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the people force, and pigs you collect along then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the wayrun.'' Grace doesn't want to leave her London home and go and live with misery guts Grandad while her mum goes into hospital to They get a LUMP sorted out. Grace can't see why she couldn't look after her mum herself. After alltogether, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the LUMP was just caused by Mum dancing too muchfather is arrested, wasn't it? WASN'T IT? But Mum won't hear of it and Grace must move awayleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, start toting a new schooltin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, make new friends and miss her mum so much that even chocolate doesn't help. Things go from bad to worse when Grace upsets the resident school bully on her very first daybearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916750</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accidental Life of Jessie JeffersonLex Croucher|authortitle=Paige ToonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jessie Jefferson isn't having Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a great time of gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it. Her mum died lifted my spirits in a freak accidentmost delightful way. On Jessie's birthday. While buying Jessie's birthday cake. Grief In this story, Gwen and anger at Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the loss of her mother has sent Jessie into a spiral of teenage rebellion. Shekingdom's drinking and smoking and partying and stepfather Stu is at the end of his tetheronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. So much so that he finally tells Jessie something she's always wanted to know: And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the identity subterfuge of her biological fatherfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments... ... it's Johnny Jefferson But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, global rock star. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118789</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Crystal ChanNick Brooks|title=Bird|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.'' That was also the day Jewel was born. Birthdays for Jewel are miserable affairs during which her parents' grief for their son trump their joy in their daughter. In fact, Jewel doesn't see that her parents have ''any'' joy in their daughter at all. She's quite certain that nobody will ever love her as much as Mom, Dad and Grandpa loved John. Until, one day, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in one of her favourite trees. Grandpa doesn't like this new John, but Jewel does. She finally has someone that she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's life forever...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848531230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Cotterill|title=Looking at the Stars|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amina and Jenna are sisters living under the Kwana regime. Because the Kwana have banned girls from going to school, they contribute to the family finances by weaving baskets and mats from reeds. Life under the Kwana is tough but Potta and Mamie tell their children to keep their heads down and get on with life as best they can. But fighting is breaking out across the country and when Amina sees a column of liberating soldiers, she begins to think life might get better soon. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230018X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hunger (Hammer 1)|author=Melvin BurgessPromise Boys

|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt and consumed by a ravening hunger. She puts it down to illness and sleepwalking at first but when When the hunger doesn't go and reports principal (headmaster) of a grave desecration surfaceUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Beth has to admit that something sinister is afootthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Beth doesn't know it yet Each, seemingly, but she is has a special person. She carries a conduit from the land grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the living to the land time of the dead and a newly-awakened demon wants her very muchhis murder. But can Bethwho killed him, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan why, and Collif any of the boys are innocent, defeat himwill they be able to clear their names? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=ShadowplayA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Laura LamKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Micah Grey and the clown Drystan have left the circus. Trying to escape their past, and the terrible tragedy that ended Pantomime, they find Jasper MaskeSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a retired magician who owes Drystan a favour. While they seem series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have found a safe haven, to wait to get an answer to the return of a figure from Maskesecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's past reignites an old rivalryll answer the first one: for his grandmother... Can they help Maske and avoid detection when the mysterious Shadows seek both Micah and the person he once was? And who is the mysterious Cyan, and can they trust her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Storm Patrick Ness and StoneTea Bendix|authortitle=Joss StirlingDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=American student Raven Stone doesn't like it Ant is in Year Eleven at her exclusive English boarding quite a standard school. People are going missing, and return seeming very differentis 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 football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. The teachers pick on her as As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a scholarship studentssingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and her classmates hate her - one of them enough out often turns to send her death threatssex. Just Which is confusing for Ant, as the mystery starts to deepenhe doesn't know what his score is, two new boys arrivewhere his achievements in that regard lie. Joe is friendly He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and charismaticso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but itwhether that's Kieranset in stone, he can's analytical brain which may t be the clue to solving her problemssure. Although her problems may be bigger than either And that's mostly because of them had realised..who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735683</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The One Safe PlaceStitched Up|author=Tania UnsworthSteve Cole

|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfatherBrave. Charlene, away from the rest 'heroine' of the worldthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. He knows Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a little about it – how the gap between rich pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and poor is far wider than the world we live has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be inneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and how many children now live on the streetcreation of one such item is part of the plot here, scavenging as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for scraps to say aliveher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. But, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a simple onestore detective, but they can grow enough food and then force people to get bygive her two days off school, and they’re happywhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... When tragedy strikeswell, Devin what exactly happens is forced not for me to say, only to leave his home remark how sharp and venture into the city for the first timepointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Crash Into YouAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Katie McGarryRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=This 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 to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the second companion book Empire. He asks her to McGarrycome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's stunning debut [[Pushing t have any say in the matter, because the Limits Midori is destroyed by Katie McGarry|Pushing The Limits]]a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, following [[Dare You To by Katie McGarry|Dare You To]]and she is forced to flee out into the world. In She joins Himura aboard the wonderful Pushing The LimitsOrihime, we were introduced a sky-ship whose express purpose is to main characters Noah and Echo hunt down shikigami, and an excellent supporting cast including Noah's best friends and surrogate family Beth and Isaiah.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452543</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SalvageMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Keren DavidWrath

|summary=Cass Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is adopted. She's always been happy in her new familyonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, getting on well to go where he wants and with her parents and feeling protective of their natural son Ben. So whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when her fatherhe talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a high-ranking MPdesultory school band, is revealed to be having an affair with but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a woman not much older than her subhuman hum coming from the betrayal hits her hardearth. Aidan, her brother, manages to get back in touch Is this connected with one of her shortly afterwards and seems to be 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 bright spot in her lifetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... But how much do these siblings really know about each other?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001375</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=This Song Will Save Your LifeFrontpage|author=Leila Sales|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elise is a fragile girl who's never felt like she fitted in anywhere. Shuttled between her divorced parents, she's desperate to be popular at school but can't work out how. Then a chance event leads to her DJ'ing in Start, a hot underground nightclub and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but can she really leave behind her old self, or are the bullies who make her feel like there's nothing worthwhile about her life right all along?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447252837</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=When The Guns Fall Silent|author=James RiordanDevil Makes Three

|summary=In 1964, Perry visits Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a foreign cemetery with his grandfather Jack, request for over a hero of World War Ihundred books that she has to deliver herself. Jack doesn't like to talk about What makes it worse is the man who requested the war, much to Perrybooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's disappointmentheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, but Tess sticks post-it notes on this trip he finds himself thinking back 50 years to a time when he signed up full each of enthusiasm only to be confronted by the harsh realities books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of war. They're never meant to reach him, and looking back on those of his friends - English course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and German - who didnthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't make itdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735705</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott Utterly Dark and othersthe Face of the Deep

|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title characterpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the nature Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the programme. It Dark family that has gone to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from black and whiteeven further west, and cheaply producedwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, and declared disposableAndrewe, who has to being an essential part keep notes of activity from the BBC, full-gloss digitalHidden Lands, and accessed his brother Will who lives in all manner of ways. So London with the celebratory programme still ringing too much science in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button his head to see a programme worry about three Doctorssuch local yokel superstitions, erand Andrewe's foundling daughter, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects who washed up out of the birthday bonanzasea one day eleven years ago. Such as this bookBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the blazing lights world of YA writingprotecting their island, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of coverslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)|author=L M Montgomery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I think I should confess, before I write this review, that I am a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was a little girl, and I have read them so many times that the covers are worn and faded and her stories live inside of me, at least in part making me who I am. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back with a bottle of red sand and a heart full of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne of Green Gables'' in my presence my eyes get very large and I get very excited (and my husband rolls his eyes...) So it is with trepidation that I sit down to review one of her books. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Warm BodiesFrontpage|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTom de Freston|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, Julia and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy LaybourneShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We left Julia, our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Nikopre-teen heroine, Alex has been packed off with her parents and six others were taking their cat from the school bus family home in SW England to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the US military evacuation teamScottish islands. Dean Here be Vikings, Astrid and three that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the little ones had stayed lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into hunt the poisoned outsideelusive Greenland shark. And when we say poisonedJulia, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different peoplewell, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake isshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SkulkJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Rosie BestThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Meg wanted Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to do was go out wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and create a real work of graffiti artshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Then But then she sees a dying fox transform into a manmeets Albert Browne, and pass onto her a mysterious gem, dark boy with dark powers and all of a sudden she's inherited a whole new world of problemsdarker past. Skulk sees its heroine plunged into a secret LondonWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, where raggedy groups of people transform into animals. The shapechangers have never got on with each other, but with a mysterious stranger trying they plan to flee to claim the strange gemstone Meg's forced to try to unite this ragtag bunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844701</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Time Trap|author=Richard Smith|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are mythical Free Isles of the two ghosts inhabiting his house in 21st century London? Jamie and Todd are thrown into the mystery when Lagoon. Together, they spend a weekend in London with Jamie's Uncle Simon who lives in must brave man-eating wildlife, the house that once belonged to Hector Lightfoot. Simon takes cannibalistic Tainted and all the two boys horrors of post-apocalyptic society to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at the British Museum. When reach the building is struck by lightningFree Isles, the two boys but will they be any more accepted there than they are sent back in time to the year 1862. They know that their only chance of returning home is to find Hector. But where is he? And can they avoid being sucked into a life rest of crime while they search for himBritain? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780353855</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Endless KnightMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Kresley ColeSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Evie Gracie Welles has survived resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in the post Flash apocalyptic world people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in part because of the help of her Cajun boyfriendclass with her slingshot, Jackher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and the other companions they've picked up along the way. But for her life now has a boy in it's also because of Evie's impressive abilitiesthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TinderT L Huchu|authortitle=Sally GardnerThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about Ropa Moyo is a world at warghostalker, but although death using Zimbabwean magic (and violence abound once again, a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the atmosphere here is very differentdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. This time we are Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not in some alternate nineteen fifties Britain where the bad guys have wononly herself, but instead in her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the eerieruined streets of Edinburgh, mist-filled world of targeting the fairy talecity's children. In this place wonders and magic lead Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the hero to request of his destiny, dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and love, power realise that the world of magic is far bigger and greed are more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the catalysts for both joy missing children and despair. bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Curtsies and ConspiraciesKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Gail CarrigerLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=With 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 end rest of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approachinglife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Sophronia is caught up in a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip an online support group where she talks to London, a prototype that everyone wants to get bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their hands ontroubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and a potential threat to a friendmess around. Can she save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boy on the Porch|author=Sharon Creech|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Marta and John wake up one morning, thereBrigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's a surprise in store. A little boy is asleep on their porch. He has an unsigned note asking t respond to the couple to care chat for him. And so they doa while, Priya becomes concerned. And they soon come She decides to love him, even though he cannot talk. But they cansteal her parents't help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta car and John bear drive to give him Brigid's house to check up - this little boy who paints blue trees, rides cows and can make music from anything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ransom of Dond|author=Siobhan Dowd|rating=4on her.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before But what she died from breast cancer in 2007. All four novels were wonderful and yet they werendoesn't Siobhan's sole legacy expect to us. Patrick Ness took an idea of hers find there is a werewolf in the basement – and, together with artist Jim Kay, turned it into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]], which won both for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the Carnegie and Greenaway prizes. And now we have ''The Ransom of Dond'', Siobhan's last storypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)|author=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Alan Turing was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of the last century. He did pioneering work Move on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also a hero of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]